Hello Hive Community, I am a newbie here and I would like to appreciate my very good friend @samostically for constantly encouraging and introducing me to this great platform. It’s been my dream to finally come out of my shell and put my creativity out there but it’s been a battle with anxiety and I’m happy I finally have the courage to be out here. I know this is a great opportunity for me to grow, meet new people and interact with the Hive Community.
My name is Ajuma and I am currently a college student in my 2nd year and I am studying History and international studies. Studying History wasn’t as easy for me at first but with dedication, hard work & vigorous research on global knowledge, helps me understand my course better and it’s evident in the good grades I’ve been getting. Life in college is a bitter-sweet experience, I made a lot of wonderful friends and memories but sometimes the academic struggle is depressing. I desire to graduate with a first class and one of the best graduating students in my class at the end of my degree year and I’m working towards achieving that goal.
I found out about the game of chess in 2011. My friend who was my neighbor at that time, was taught about the game of chess in his school and hired a coach. The coach had lessons with him in our compound and my sisters and I would watch them as they train. I picked interest out of curiosity and never miss a training session with them playing even if my mom had chased me severally to no disturb them. In no time I had learnt all the names of the pieces and the “queen” was my favorite piece, not because of how powerful she is on the board but because I was obsessed about being called a queen when I was younger. His coach noticed the dedication and seriousness and then offered to be our coach and we accepted with so much excitement.
We had the rest of our friends in the compound join us during our training sessions and then we formed a team of 6. Our coach introduced us to our state’s club and we became regular members. Saturday’s and Sunday’s became our regular training days at the club. In 2012 we were all strong enough to play interstate tournaments and so our coach took us to our first under 14 tournament in Lagos, Nigeria .
It was an amazing experience for myself and the rest of my teammates as we met a lot of chess players from different parts of Nigeria that I’m still friends with till date. Our performance was beautiful as we all made it to top 10 and even got a silver medal from one of our players. Winning was a norm for my teammates and I as we were winning back to back interstate competitions. Sadly, i couldn’t keep up with the regular training sessions and competitions cause I went to a boarding school for high school and leaving the school environment wasn’t allowed. This affected me a lot and slowed down my chess performance and strength as starting over when I got out of college was really difficult. A few of my teammates had gone really far, playing international competitions and are big names in the Nigerian chess family and this discouraged even more. I still play chess & train in college but the zeal and passion I began with isn’t as much. I hope to become a better chess player and a big name in the Nigerian Federation soon as chess will always be my first love.
I’m an entrepreneur as I own a small crochet business. I learnt about crocheting firstly in secondary school where it became one of our elementary subjects and I picked interest.
I became a full time crocheter in 2018, I watched and practiced a lot of crocheting videos on YouTube and that helped me get better and then I decided to go it into full time business when I realized I became very good. To reach a wider range of people and not limit my pieces locally, I created an Instagram page where I advertise each piece I create with their prices for more people to purchase. Even if it was a really small business, I wanted it to look more professional so I went ahead to make branded paper bags that hadmy brand name printed on it for delivery. Combining business and college was really difficult as both are time consuming and tasking.
Sadly I had to put a pause on my business first as I wasn’t really concentrating anymore as crocheting can be positively addicting. Of course I still crochet during leisure time and even still take orders from students.
Crocheting is therapeutic for me as it helps when I’m depressed or sad and it helps keep me busy when I’m idle. It’s also a good source of income as crochet pieces have become a high demand as it is a trend and norm recently.
In Conclusion...
I look forward to meeting a lot of creative crocheters in the Hive community and I also look forward to sharing ideas, playing chess, collaborating and creating different beautiful pieces together over time.
Here is a picture I took with @samostically about 4 months ago
Thanks for reading my post!
Welcome to Hive, my friend. It's been a long time coming, Finally, you are here.
We've discussed alot about how Hive works and we would continue to as time goes on.
I'm sure @stayoutoftherz, @jaki01, and the rest of the chess community would be ready to welcome you to our chess events.
I told @crosheille about you too, follow her and the needlework community, they are exactly what you need. I'm super excited to have you here and I wish you success here.. Have fun!
As a Nigerian, you can join us in our weekend engagement posts. It is always a weekend of fun as you get to meet Nigerians here on Hive and also win Hive prizes. You can find a link to the posts on my blog every Friday - See you there!
Welcome Chocho! I've tipped your post with 5 Hive, Enjoy <3
!PIZZA !LUV
Really appreciate all your effort my friend! I’m happy to be here finally and I’m loving it already😊
I’d be on the look for the weekend engagement posts and also give my full participation as to every other thing you mentioned. Thank you once again💗
@samostically(1/1) gave you LUV.
tools | wallet | discord | community | <>< daily
HiveBuzz.me NFT for Peace
The rewards earned on this comment will go directly to the people( @samostically ) sharing the post on Twitter as long as they are registered with @poshtoken. Sign up at https://hiveposh.com.
Welcome to Hive!
Best greetings from Austria!
Hallo,Danke😊
I hope I got them right lol
👍
Welcome to Hive @ajumaa!
Yes, @samostically informed me you would be joining soon so it’s great to see your intro post…which I really enjoyed reading btw. 😉
Your chess story is really inspiring. I have always been intrigued with chess players and how focused they are when playing. I do hope you get that zeal back for it one day.
Your crochet work is lovely and we’d welcome you with open arms to the NeedleWorkMonday Community. You will find so many other enthused needle artists and various kinds of skills and needle-arts being shared there. We are a community that believes in a strong support system and we hold each other accountable to the goals we share.
Every week from around the globe we get together to share our work, patterns, tips, ideas and shortcuts as we support one another. Our goal is to inspire the Hive blockchain to give crafting a try.
On Monday’s we use the #needleworkmonday tag and on all other days we use the #needlework tag without the word Monday attached. We share and post our work directly from the Community page.
We encourage our members to share about their needlework life with us. We love hearing stories and what types of things inspired your projects. We challenge you to put some feeling and emotion into your publications and help us get to know the needler behind the fabric.
Feel free to share photos of your work but it’s optional if you choose to share the steps with us (we do require you share the step process in at least one of your posts for validation purposes). If you just want to needle and share about that time we’d love to hear about it. 😊
For more information about what we do and for our posting guidelines please visit our FAQs.
We hope to see you over there ~ 😊
Really appreciate your kind words, I feel loved and a sense of belonging to this community already.
The game of chess is an interesting one as I haven’t met a group of individuals with so much seriousness and passion towards a board game. You should learn and play sometime. Also, I’m working towards getting back in the game stronger and even much better, thank you😊
I’m really excited & can’t wait to share my crochet pieces and of course the process as well with the NeedleWorkMonday Community. I already love what I’ve seen in the community so far as I already checked it out and I look forward to meeting other creatives.
Thank you again for your warm regards💗
I’m so glad you already feel welcomed and at home. 😉
I’ve had a few people offer to teach me how to play over the years but it always looked so intimidating. I decided to just stick with the game of checkers instead 😅. Who knows, maybe some day I will learn.
I think you’ll have such a good time mingling with the other needle artists. We have such a fun and encouraging group here and it’s really amazing being amongst them every week.
Oh and I do want to mention there are a handful of other members whom also have a needlework business. They choose certain items to share the process but we understand that they are not able to share every process with us as it’s their paid business which means paid patterns and items. So feel free to decide on that but I did want you to know it’s totally okay if you choose not to share the process of your projects (besides the one we require).
Thank you so much for stopping by 💘
For sure ~ 😉
You're welcome to this amazing platform. I wish you fruitful stay here
Thank you so much! Hopefully we network better as time goes on
See you around 👍
Great intro! Welcome to the platform! Look forward to your creativity and content!
Thank you so much! Also look forward to networking more with you
Likewise! Have a good 1!
Welcome ajumaa!
Ecency is fastest website, mobile and desktop application that improves your experience on Hive.
Use Ecency daily to boost your growth on platform!
Support Ecency
Vote for new Proposal
Delegate HP and earn more
PIZZA Holders sent $PIZZA tips in this post's comments:
@samostically(1/5) tipped @ajumaa (x1)
You can now send $PIZZA tips in Discord via tip.cc!
Congratulations @ajumaa! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s):
Your next target is to reach 50 upvotes.
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOPCheck out the last post from @hivebuzz:
Support the HiveBuzz project. Vote for our proposal!
Welcome to hive , good to have creative mind here. I must say you are doing great with your crotchets works and @needleworks is one community you will like to join. Enjoy as explore diverse opportunities
Hello, thank you so much for your warm welcome and for the compliment as well. I would check out the community as recommended. Also looking forward to networking more with you!
Hello @ajumaa ! This is @chillwithshanna from @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) team. Congratulations on making your first post on Hive and welcome to this amazing community!
We have a lot of Communities you can subscribe to which are all categorized based on interest or topics. Share your blogs there to have a wider range of audience or you can check out the Communities Incubation Program.
If you are looking for tips and information as a Hive newbie, click here: Newbie guide. If you have questions, you can hop into Discord server and we'll gladly answer your questions.
Also, letting you know since content on the Hive platform is monetized, using other people’s ideas or images could be considered as an offense and which is also viewed in a serious light on the blockchain. Here is a useful collection of resources about how plagiarism and abuse is viewed and handled on Hive.
Happy Blogging!
Welcome to HIVE @ajumaa
Really appreciate, thank you
$WINE
Congratulations, @theguruasia You Successfully Shared 0.100 WINEX With @ajumaa.
You Earned 0.100 WINEX As Curation Reward.
You Utilized 1/4 Successful Calls.
Contact Us : WINEX Token Discord Channel
WINEX Current Market Price : 0.175
Swap Your Hive <=> Swap.Hive With Industry Lowest Fee (0.1%) : Click This Link
Read Latest Updates Or Contact Us
Congratulations!
✅ Good job. Your post has been appreciated and has received support from CHESS BROTHERS ♔ 💪
♟ We invite you to use our hashtag #chessbrothers and learn more about us.
♟♟ You can also reach us on our Discord server and promote your posts there.
♟♟♟ Consider joining our curation trail so we work as a team and you get rewards automatically.
♞♟ Check out our @chessbrotherspro account to learn about the curation process carried out daily by our team.
Kindly
The CHESS BROTHERS team
Welcome onboard creative mind,
I wish you a wonderful stay here in this amazing platform.
Thank you so much, really appreciate
You are welcome.
I hope to see more content of yours.
It's good to have you here on hive.
Welcome.
I can't wait to see amazing things you create here.
I hope you have a nice ride 🤗🤗
Thank you💗
I’m more than excited to share all I have in store and I hope we get to network more
🤗🤗
Welcome to Hive Ajuma!
Great introduction post :)
Thank you so much for the compliment 😊
I wish you lots of luck and fun in this platform, a sincere greeting from Venezuela.
I really appreciate your kind words. I look forward to us connecting more! Gracias🤗
I am pretty impressed with your level of chess. To be playing for that long, and with so much devotion and the tournaments and all...
I saw "chess player" on your profile and I immediatedly visited. I play chess as well, and I love it so much. However, I do not take it as serious as you and Samostically. But I do love to play.
We may as well have a match someday.
I see you are really talented with crotchet as well. That's really nice. I cannot fix my shirt with a needle, even if my life depends on it.
Welcome to Hive.
It’s nice to finally meet a chess player on here apart from Samostically. We can always play whenever, I haven’t been playing as much recently and you may even win me lol.
Haha, you should learn the basics about crochet sometime, it may come in handy especially in situations like fixing your shirts with a needle lol
Thank you for stopping by and leaving kind comments, have a nice day!
Thank you, but I will not lose guard.
Olu-jay is my username on Lichess.
I think I am way past learning the needle works. This is why "needle works" will be in the form for my wife to be. I cannot stress on top clothe.
I’m not disguising but okay😂
I’ll add you on lichess now. I hope you find that person if not you’ll have to eventually stress o😂
Alright then. I will expecting the notification.
I hope I do not have to stress to find my lover.
Welcome to hive @ajumaa! Your crocheting is really beautiful
Thank you😊. I’m glad you love them