Me! His English teacher!

Last week was sorta laid back and hectic at the same time.

A little history lesson....when we were in camp, we were promised monthly allowances of N19,800 from the federal government and N5000 from the state government. Upon resuming at our PPAs, we found out from our senior colleagues that the state allowance would not be paid monthly. But a lump some in our 7th or 10th month. We heard all sorts of details as to when it would be paid. Apparently, the state would give the school the money in cash to pay their Corpers but the governor (who would be running for his second term next year needs to start making amends, paying every state worker he owes and making people's lives easier) decided to pay us directly to our accounts and not through the school. This is a good thing, which also meant that every single Corper, Batch A, B & C from the two local governments in the town of Osogbo had to report to the secretariat for data capturing. Now, u can imagine how chaotic this could be. Especially how bad things become when too many Nigerians are gathered in one place, especially when it has to do with money.

To cut the long story short, it was chaotic but I'm sure we all got done one way or another. It was a good week because I hardly went to school using this as excuse and hectic because of this one day. I spent about 4-5hrs there. Some people were unfortunate to spend longer hours. I'm sure some spent less but I kinda doubt it. And oh! It doesn't mean people in my batch will be getting paid even in the next 2 months.

Now, on my way home, the unimaginable happened (maybe not the unimaginable but the unbelievable). I won't go into too much details because of time. A male student of mine saw me along the way home, walked with me to my house because it was enroute his house and he hit on me at my gate. Can u imagine? Me! His English teacher! He first mentioned that if my boyfriend saw him walking with me, he would tell him that he is my new boyfriend. I said nothing. Then he suggested that I could come to his house and sleepover and "we can play all night" while I fumbled through my purse to get my keys. I really didn't know what to say but I warned him to never say such to me again and verbally chased him away from my gate. I haven't been back to school since so I haven't seen him.

If I ever blog about being in love with my student, just know that he has jazzed me because I've heard stories about these boys practicing voodoo on their teachers. Whether that is just a rumor or not, if it happens, notify my parents to have me removed from Osogbo. LoL

After that, I thought "such guts." I've crushed on many teachers as a kid but never dared nor did I ever have the guts to tell them irrespective of how close we got. That kid will get to places in life if he channels his nerves to the right situations.

~kdamsel~