Hello Peeps!I hope you all had a great day! On my part, my day was fun-filled so, I will be sharing with you some of the activities that made my day.
Let's get started...
So today, I visited the market where I'm temporarily residing in the Eastern part of Nigeria. By the way, I'm currently serving my country in a programme named 'National Youth Service Corp' It's an age-long programme in the country where College graduates are sent out to various parts of the nation to give back to the society via various means. Some are sent to schools to teach in the classrooms while some graduates are sent to work in either government or private firms.
As part of my exercise together with other members, we visited the village's general market. Hence, it wasn't a regular visit to the market.
I went to the market but not to buy or sell goods rather to educate the market men and women on the subject of "Self-Medication' I will only say very little about self-medication in this post. Instead, I will dwell more on my experience in the market tour.
The tour was quite a fun-filled one as I came across many sects of people. In the market, I met those that didn't even give us audience or show interest in listening to whatever we had to say. To these sects, we simply walked pass them; no time for unnecessary persuasion after all, it's a voluntarily act. On the other hand, I met those that welcomed us with open arms, gave us audience and equally asked questions while we gave answers.
Still on the list were persons that welcomed us but didn't pay rapt attention. Maybe they didn't want us to feel bad so, they welcomed us but they appeared quite uninterested. I would say that it was their loss but we brought value to their and they didn't even have to pay.
And now, here was the highpoint of the tour for me. I came across a certain woman that didn't understand English Language very well. She only understands her native language and partly the Nigerian English (Pidgin).
On my part too, I can neither speak their native language nor give an educational talk fluently with the Nigerian English (Pidgin). You can imagine how funny the scenario was.
Funnily enough, I had begun the talk and I was busy speaking some big big grammar thinking she understood. I came to discover that I was talking to myself when I paused to ask if she got my point. It was then she said that she understood nothing. I laughed really hard, trust me! To salvage the situation, another colleague of mine who understand their native language as well as speak fluently stepped in.
On the whole, it was a great time out with the market folks as we tried our best in educating them about self-medication.