LG, PPA & CDS

First and foremost, my primary place of assignment is a school where I will be teaching English on the Junior Secondary School(JSS) level. My community development service is environmental. Needless to say, I graduated with a degree in Criminology. Don't anyone dare try to convince me that NYSC is not an absolute waste of a whole year in a person's life.

I ended up with environmental mainly because when I got to the lady who was assigning posts, it was almost closing time and she had a cold and was prolly getting crankier than she was before. She asked what bank I had been assigned to open an account with and I said "Union Bank"(in my accent). She did not understand, I repeated it. She got it and mocked the way I said it out loud. She asks what I studied(which I believe should influence where you are being posted to) and I answered. She looks at me, says "environmental", and yelled "next."
Ofcourse I was not bothered because I don't really plan to do anything anyways. They had other CDS groups on the list that were closely related to my discipline, which might have even encouraged me to participate. She ruined it for me and I will find her and let her know that I wasn't putting on a show on that day because I figured perhaps she thought I was forming(acting out a different and "better"personality either by how one speaks or how one acts or relate with others). If you have a better definition, please leave it as a comment for my non-Nigerian readers. I won't beg anyone to change my CDS posting, I just wanna make her feel bad about being an asshole and that I will do in a very polite way.

For those want to know the next step after camp, you will go to your PPA, after you have been approved, you will go to your LG(local government) and you will create a file. Always make photocopies of everything including your NYSC identification card and your posting letter and have some passport photographs. I would recommend about 8 to be on the safe side. In the file, you need to include a copy of the following:

1) posting letter
2) call up letter
3) copy of your NYSC identification card
4) statement of result
5) attach 2 passport photographs

You will also open a bank account with whatever bank they ask you to join. Even if you bank with the same company, you still have to open a new one for the government to pay your alawi into. For that you will need a copy of a national identification card (I used my passport because I had photocopies but NYSC card is fine) and two passport photographs.

After that, you will be assigned to your CDS group and then you sign a couple of registers they have there and you are good to resume at your PPA or go home, whichever your PPA allows you to do. As for me, I'm running home without approval till January when school resumes or till I get redeployed. If I get redeployed rather.

I realized today that all my decisions have been a result of how to spend as little time as possible doing my duties and overall, as little time as possible in Osogbo. I can't help it because today I'm looking at the glass cup and it's half empty. Maybe tomorrow, it will be half full.

~kdamsel~