COUNT DOWN!! Yeap, One more week to Medical school, my room is so scattered right now. I have been having so much fun enjoying this last few days as a
free man. Attending youth explosion programs
at my california church, playing drums and piano at events, attending Nigerian parties
in holiday inn, going out with friends for lunch at my favorite Crepeville
restaurant, going to my gym late at night. The unfortunate truth is that
some of this events I will have to be sacrificing for the next 4 years of my life as I join
about 21,000 students starting their first year medical experience in all medical
schools in U.S and some major Caribbean countries. I am so excited and overjoyed
to picture that this day I have so dreamed about has finally come. My family
and close friends and relatives have been so supportive and prayerful of my aspirations,
and I believe by God’s grace I have gotten the drive I need to succeed.
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| packing for medical school |
So this is the last week before I begin medical school. I
call it the last week of Chisom’s unaccounted freedom. Henceforth, all my
freedom, my time and my money has to be judiciously accounted for. My
ambassadors advised me to pack things that I would definitely need because generally
everything is overpriced on the island. Maybe because they are being shipped
from continental U.S, or because local store-owners just need a profit, or because they know
students are investing in a big industry (Medicine), and they might as well
take a little chunk of it. Whatever the reason is, something doesn't add up. If most local indigenes living in the dominica
island live below poverty line and don’t have much money to pay for these
things, how then do they afford to buy those commodities?
Now, I am packing my baggages, and I will like to run down an
unending list of things to take note of while packing. Don’t forget laptop,
tablet, 1TB external hard drive, scrubs, stethoscope, dissection kit, rain
boots, tote windproof umbrella, toiletries (tissue, toothbrush, toothpaste, body
lotion, e.t.c), surge protectors (for unpredictable electric current),
flashlights (for power outages during hurricanes), deet mosquito repellants
(for them bugs and mosquitoes whom I share my space with), lighter (not for
cigarettes but for lighting up my propane stove), clothes, hangars, school
stationeries (whiteboard markers, 2b pencils, pens, erasers, index cards), chocolate, vitamins and foods
(my favorite indomie noodles), e.t.c
On my flight to Dominica I am only awarded one luggage of 50 pounds, but I am going to be carrying another extra luggage of 50 pounds ( for $60) totaling 100 pounds. Question of the day. If you were to survive with only 100 pounds worth of stuffz, for 4 months on an estranged island, what else would you carry? lol.
