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Week 2 Message to the Pre-Intern: don’t lose hope! Week 2, for me, was 2 months post-induction. This was when the wait began to sink in. You mean I’ve been home for two whole months? By now, I was literally chewing on my fingernails. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t scared of getting a space, but I certainly wasn’t confident about any place anymore. That is when I began to write this book. Today is the 12th of September and I sit at the dining table in my parents’ house, typing at 11:27pm (because well, I have an editing job to finish up, but mostly because I don’t have to go anywhere tomorrow morning). If I don’t want to, I don’t even have to take a bath tomorrow morning because well, I can stay indoors all day! (I most likely will stay indoors, except for those few minutes when I step out to buy hot akara for my akamu). I am spent. You know, I have applied to a couple of places now. Let me start with the first: LS Health Service Commission At the State Health servic

Week 1 It is neither the beginning nor the end; but rather, it’s the beginning of the end and the end of the beginning. You thought it was over? Nope, it just started. I left medical school! On the 7th of July, 2017; I was inducted into the medical profession with so much finesse. You know that feeling you get when you are finally able to accomplish something, great right? Although the celebration seemed larger than life to me (I mean, who are all these people eating my rice?), I managed to get through it- because my kind of celebration is really in a quiet place, by a beach or you know, some really somber place with chocolate and ice cream, and maybe one or two Netflix series (ah ah). I could smell so many opportunities in the air, you know. I was sure that I would have started housemanship by September- dead sure. In fact, I already had a couple of leads and I was simply waiting to get my ‘papers’ ready- my MDCN documents. Getting space wasn’t something I pondered over; I

Hello guys!!! Its been such a long time, miss me? Between the last time I posted on my blog and now, so much has happened, some of which I'd be sharing with you all. I'm unveiling a new blog post series titled 'Wannabe Intern'. By the time this series is published on my blog, I must have started my housemanship/ internship (or it will be the first week of January 2018), but I am writing it anyway, because I hope it helps someone, I hope it guides someone along their path and gives them hope (Damn, why am I using the word ‘hope’ so much?). I certainly hope you can relate to it and laugh through it as well! Dark comes before the light. You’ll be tempted to give up, don’t do it! P.S: (This particular step might or might not be fun for you, depending on your fun radar and if you think it’s cool to laugh about yourself and stuff). Get a notebook, as there’ll be work sessions after each day’s devotional styled article. The goal is not just to get you to start housemans