As usual, the weather this morning was cold. However, I seemed to be over prepared. My jacket, head warmer, gloves, long socks made me sweat in the intense cold. Also, the morning drills and exercise was awesome.
Yesterday, the men were punished and the ladies set free. The soldiers promised their time will come. I suspected it will come sooner than expected. The military do not put off things for long.
Immediately after parade, the men were set free and the ladies faced their judgement. Just as I thought, it happened. Some little hearted men scorned and laughed. They were happy to watch the ladies suffer awhile. Unfortunately, they didn't understand something. There's no reason to be excited that the ladies are punished. We, the men are the one's who eventually feel the impact. We'll do the comforting and in worse cases suffer transfer of aggression.
Just as I anticipated, the first lady I greeted gave a cold reply. She claimed to be pulling my legs but I understood it was a little more. But, that is not so nice. The pressure needed to be released before the welcome party later in the evening. And luckily it was.
We had moin moin and pap for breakfast. Unlike yam for which I can forgive shortcomings easily, I can take up abuse of moin moin legally. The effort necessary to finish it up moin moin is too expensive for a bad one. So I had the moin moin and pap and it wasnt bad afterall.
Today was lecture free, even though we assembled for one. The gathering was later dismissed. I am not sure if the alarm was false or the authorities changed their mind. Whatever the case, I was quite a relief.
We had the first drama rehearsal but it ened in a disaster. Indeed, too many cooks spoil the soup. In a ploy to involve many people, there were too many people not properly administered. Leaders feel threatened that their authority is being usurped so they spend more time to establish their authority. They step on many toes in doing so that selling the vision. Members are scared of oblivion and they raise their voice in defence. I hope I get to act this time. My first opportunity to act, was jeopardised by rain. I hope it is not a rain of insults that stops this one.
For the first time, I got to serve siesta. The 3 hours of rest was refreshing. I jumped from my bed to get launch. We had 'safe mode, low risk' white rice. The servers today seemed quite generous. I had to turn down one portion of pap but I took all the rice they offered.
At this time, peoples ears are so alert to information especially that relating to payment. I took a space on the queue for transport allowance and excused myself to eat. The queue I left had hardly moved an inch the whole time. Though it is not so much, the nature of the camp has made the 'little' amount very valuable.
By 4, evening parade started. We learnt to march and did quite well or so we thought until the Commandant came around We were doing fine until he came around. Could it be that we were intimidated by his presence or it is in an attempt to impress him that made us falter?
So I joined NCCF today. Service was great. I look forward to enjoying fellowship.
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