My Break

I have spent 3 weeks away from school now, and I can say my break has been going well(ish?). I’ve been spending my very long days watching as many films, documentaries as I can manage, and reading the books I’ve always wanted to read. I got to read ‘becoming’, because of a Michelle Obama documentary series that I watched, ‘honey and spice’ because I thought I needed to read more Nigerian fiction books, and another non-fiction book that I just read every night, a habit that I have developed. I have also been trying to keep up on social media and I have been using twitter actively lately. I love instagram too, but I haven’t been using it as much as I used to.

When I first finished my exams and was planning my break, this is not how I meant for it to be. I thought I was going to learn a skill, and do something that just involved me interacting with people. Something different and fun. That’s different because typically, my breaks involve staying at home alone all day. Every other person goes to work or school. Sometimes, that just feels boring. I want to be with and around people. So with nothing to do at home, I decided to just follow my parents to work, and not work with/for them, just do what I felt. Although I run errands for them. 

What I do is lie down on a red patterned carpet in my mum’s office, watch 3 episodes of Suits, read my novels, and once in a while (becoming more regular) go to my church which is just like a 2 minutes walk away and meet my friends and bosses there. I love my mum’s office because there’s usually a snack there, so whenever she goes out, I conveniently sneak a couple, munch and go back to my day.

When we get home, I would sometimes sleep. If there’s work to be done in the kitchen, do my portion, then watch a documentary, or sometimes another film. Sometimes, when it’s my turn to do dishes, I do them, and go to bed. 

It’s simple but it’s repetitive.

One thing that I don’t seem to like is that to go to my parent’s office, I have to wake up early and follow them on their way to work. That’s something I didn’t think I would be doing after spending the last two months at school preparing for exams and stuff. So sometimes when I wake up at 6am in the morning and start that cycle, I’m like, ‘what am I doing?’ ‘Should I just stay at home?’ I need some rest from that exam cycle. Then I remember, no I can’t just be alone at home, I want to be around people. I also trick myself that since 400L would be more challenging for me, this is some kind of preparation for it. So I get up, do everything, and go. 

Right now, I’m nearly done with suits, the series I have been following. When I am done, I plan on finishing ‘the good doctor’, which is a medical series. Instead of 3 episodes per day, I may go with 4-6. 

I love my Sundays because I get to go to my church, where I kind of work in the technical unit, with these people. I find it interesting. There are a couple other medical students who work there too, and it’s nice being around them.

One thing I really wanted to do this break was play my keyboard some more, but it got spoilt at school because of some rats, and I haven’t been able to fix it yet. I find music very soothing, and I’ve wanted to fix this keyboard, but this postponement thing has me. I would work to get it fixed soon hopefully, and play some more.

One thing that scares me about this break is that this may be my longest break till I graduate medical school. That’s difficult because when I think of the work ahead, it sometimes scares me. I am trying to kind of prepare myself mentally for the work ahead. To be more confident and maybe stable. 

This post has been a little rambly, but if you made it here, thanks for following through 😊

Enjoy your weekend! 🤗