Okay! So I was supposed to drop an article on Monday titled ‘CAN THIS WEEK END ALREADY?’. You would have been like... ’but sis, the week barely started, what’s the hurry?’. Truth is, I knew that I needed to get a lot of things done and didn’t even know where to start.
Apparently, I never knew this week would eventually end. I mean, with all the tension and stress…I got through it and oh! It’s Saturday already and I’m still very much alive, It’s finally over! That was one hell of a week and yes, everything that happened was all my fault. It’s not like I’m beating myself up about it but then, for what it’s worth, I have to take responsibility for my own actions.
So, let me gist you!
It all started with this particular announcement sent to my FPY group last week’s Wednesday.
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| And that single statement ruined all our days |
Oh, before I proceed, FPY means Farm Practical Year and the Logbook referred to here, is a book that ought to contain the report of all we have been up to since the beginning of the session, It’s a practical program every agricultural student in my school has to observe, to get familiar with the practical aspect of what they’ve been teaching us theoretically for the past three(3) sessions. It’s been quite interesting, stressful, insightful, educating, and annoying altogether, but it’s ‘kinda’ worth it. I mean, the program is not totally my kind of style, but I guess I just have to embrace all their methods, so I’ll graduate in one piece.
I don’t know if this is really a good time to give you all the details about this program so you would understand me better. Honestly, I really would not like to derail, but please, put it at the back of your mind that we have been going to the farm every day for 2 semesters, to do farm stuff(obviously), and all that.
So, where were we?!😊
After the information was dropped…yes, you guessed right! Everyone went crazy and panicked🥲
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Everyone thought it was a joke at first or that they would still postpone it, No one was ready for submission (Some serious students might have been, and I wasn’t just aware of it). Well, well, we had a week to submit what we have been learning for 2 semesters, and honestly, we didn’t have any excuse to not have it ready. In between the program, the school went on strike for about 8 months, and yes, we all had the time in the world to have written more than half of it, but guess who kept procrastinating? Please don’t mention only me, I wasn’t the only one, in fact, 90% of us were guilty of the charge.
If you don’t get the bigger picture, by statistics, we had approximately a report of 150+ pages to write, and the thought of it alone was even very depressing. I didn’t even know how to feel when I got the message at first, to be very honest, I still didn’t pick up my logbook to write that instance. I had written about 3 weeks out of the 22 weeks earlier and I still considered myself a better student than some who had not even written their names on their logbooks😂.
To cut the long story short, it was last Sunday it dawned on me that I was in hot soup😂. I saw the volume of things I had to write and draw and honestly, I wanted to scream. I wrote part of it on Monday, about a week's report or so. Then, the tension started settling in on Tuesday, when I realized that we would be submitting in less than 3 days. I started writing as fast as I could, but it was way too much and the sad part was that I just realized it at that point.
I kept writing the logbook on Tuesday till the next morning on Wednesday. Apparently, I slept around 5:46 am and set my alarm to 6:30 am and 7:00 am, because I had to go to school very early again on Wednesday. I got back tired, but I managed to write some pages until nature took over. I slept off, and I was so glad that I took that rest, though it was for a short time. I could barely function well but that nap totally helped my body system.
Later that night, I was still on it, writing like a robot, and wrote it till the next morning as well (the D-day). At this point, I was totally exhausted physically and mentally, I just wanted to rest, but honestly, I dared not!. I would stand up to write sometimes, so I wouldn’t sleep off. I even watched a movie for few minutes, because I thought I thought it would keep me awake. I even took some pictures and checked through my phone for what my fellow farmers were going through too. All these actually helped and yes, I wrote a lot and I had about 5 weeks remaining by morning.
Here are some of the pictures and screenshots
I laughed so hard when I saw this, students joke even at the most challenging moments😂😂😂
Pictures I took while fighting every spirit of dizziness😂
And here is a picture of how neat my drawings were, at the beginning of my logbook. Trust me, you don’t want to see how they looked like towards the end of the logbook😂, well, I even forget to snap them for you to see, lucky you!
So I slept around 6:50 am on Thursday to wake up by 7:30 am or 8:00 am. I was so weak when I stood up later, my head was spinning. I went to school for my enterprise and to my surprise, everyone was busy on their logbooks as well.
wow, just wow!
I even saw one guy that was just starting his logbook that Morning, which shocked me. We all rushed to round off and filled the necessary forms to be submitted with the logbook. As for me, I was able to finish my logbook but I couldn’t finish all the drawings.
I left school looking homeless and exhausted. One of my eyes was so red that people were asking me if something was wrong with me. I really thought I would die from that tension and exhaustion. I’m just glad the week has ended, I was really anticipating it🥹. I pray I don’t ever procrastinate again and struggle this hard to meet a deadline. I have learned my lesson.
Thanks for reading❤️