One of My Comics

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WAIT! I always start my posts like this: my little beginning sentence and then what I'm trying to say. But you know what? I'm gonna switch it up and make this the most different post yet! I'm not going to tell you what I'm trying to say; I'm going to SHOW it to you! Here you go:

P.S: you might need to zoom in using the zoom feature on your web browser.

Signing off while spicing it up,
The Traveler

Rainy All The Time

I kinda just noticed this,

Rainy Season has come in full force. It’s rained every day for weeks now, and most of the windows in the house have been closed for a while too. So Rainy season has finally come, and it’s been mostly overcast these past few days. So now I kind of want Dry Season back; at least then we had more sunny days.

Signing off,

The Traveler

Shortest Post Ever

Nigeria's food is spicy.

Signing off,
The Traveler

Traffic Trouble

We actually didn’t go hiking yesterday,

Because we met up with the people we were supposed to be hiking with and no one wanted to go anymore. So instead we had a small picnic, and I had a lot of fun talking and laughing with the kids there. Even without the walk it was still a lot of fun, but when we left…you guys were lucky that I had posted at all yesterday. The traffic was horrific. We left at 5:00, and we got home at 12:00! We could’ve gone to Lagos twice and then even relax for an hour in the Palms Mall in that span of time. For hours the car was literally parked in a space, just waiting to keep going. We felt like dying! All we did was look outside, and I thought a little about an AI I’m planning to script, but that’s pretty much about it. My parents say it was because of the rain that this happened: rain = wet potholed roads = more accidents = more blockages = more traffic. But anyway, I’m just glad we got back.

Signing off,

The Traveler

A Hike in Ibadan

We’re going to go on a hiking trip,

In Ibadan. Now, Ibadan doesn’t sound like a place where you would have a hike (it’s one of the biggest cities in Nigeria), but there’s this place called IITA, an international project all about agriculture set up right here. Probably if you Google IITA Ibadan you might even find some pictures. But anyway, it’s gated off and a whole bunch of acres of woods and everything. They have a hike that’s more than an hour long and I don’t think that it’s their longest. I’ll right more tomorrow about what happened,

Signing off,

The Traveler

Different Voltages

This might sound a little weird that I hadn’t known this,

But before moving here, I would have never expected that there were different voltages for different places, like how America’s on 120 volts but Nigeria’s on 240. Nigeria’s voltage is 2 times higher than America’s, which led to a few blowups here since we didn’t really know what we were doing. Luckily they have step downs to bring the voltage down to America’s standard so nothing else has fried in a long time. But sometimes, even with the right voltage, you get a mega blowup all over the house, from multiple places. Do you know why this happens? PHCN. Power Holding Company of Nigeria. That’s why. Sometimes the electric company sends crazy surges that are 500 volts, pretty much blowing anything that’s connected to an outlet. But luckily, we have this great inverter which shuts down all electricity coming into the outlets if it senses a dangerous voltage. Thank you inverter!

Signing off,

The Traveler

Ife Vs. Lagos

Ife’s an interesting city,

The city’s larger than the one that we used to live in in the States (Durham), and you can see a lot of Yoruba culture here, because Ife in Yoruba religion is the first place on Earth ever created by their God, Oduduwa. But there are also some downfalls. Like how the computer stores don’t hold as many as the things as the ones in Lagos do, and there aren’t any movie theaters, and stuff like that. These were some of the reasons why, at a time, my sister, my mother, and I wanted to live in Lagos because it had all that stuff and more. Plus, it is a really big city and might be cooler than living amidst chickens and everything. My father doesn’t like Lagos though, and didn’t go for it at all; and I began to see why. One time, we were driving out of a hotel in Lagos to go to an acquaintance’s house, and the trip took 2 hours. It was liked we were parked there, in traffic. When we finally got there, the traffic had died down and when we went back to the hotel, the trip took us 7 minutes! HUUUGE difference. And that’s not the only problem in Lagos, the other one is that it’s so full of fumes and trash and junk, that it’s hard to breathe. Yes, Lagos has smog too. And also, it’s just way to hot sometimes, and when it is hot, you feel like you’re being baked in the Sun. Also it’s super crowded; the population is really, really big, which makes it much noisier, which makes it much harder to sleep, and also you aren’t gonna be able to see as many stars in the nighttime sky. So, I think I’ll stay in Ife.

Signing off,

The Traveler

The Front Yard Shop

Did I ever mention that we have a mechanics shop in our FRONT YARD?!

I think that I might’ve hinted at that once, but seriously, we have a full-fledged mechanics shop right in the yard, with tools, and more tools, and oils and transmissions and everything. My parents hadn’t known that mechanics would be such a big business here, but it is! We have like five cars in the yard right now, but fortunately, we’re planning on building a real shop soon. The reason why mechanics is so big here is because a lot of the mechanics here don’t really know what they’re doing. A lot of the time they make the cars worse, and instead of the costumer asking for money from the damage on the car, the mechanic still asks for money on the destruction that he’s done! It sounds a little funny, but it’s not for the real people who own the cars. And that is why that when I turn 16 and get my driver’s license and buy my amazing Ferrari, I am only going to go to my parent’s mechanics shop.

Signing off,

The Traveler

My New Laptop!

We’re picking up our aunt tomorrow,

So we’re going to wake up way early in the morning, drive all the way to Lagos, which is a three hour drive without traffic, eat something, cause we’ll be starving, and drive all the way back after we’ve picked her up. It’s a lot of craziness in one day, but we’ll get through it!

Signing off,
The Traveler

A Lego Mindstorm!

Guess what?

I just got a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0! I’ve been wanting this thing for years, actually, I’ve been wanting it for soo long that I can’t remember how long I’ve been wanting it. That long. But anyway, this guy gave it to me to play around with, because he wants to see if I can make a new Mindstorm invention with it by next week. This guy is great; he also gave me my copy of Portal 2! But anyway, right now I’m just trying to get a feel for the thing, see how it works and everything. Well, let me get back to work,

Signing off,

The Traveler

The Mediocre Selection of Channels

My baby sister’s watching Jungle Junction right now.

The Jungle Junction episodes from like 300 years ago. And the Disney Junior channel shows from like 300 years ago. Okay, well actually most of the overseas shows broadcasted here are from 300 years ago. My parents say that it’s like that because the TV company that we’re subscribed to doesn’t want to buy the more expensive, more recent seasons of the shows, so they just buy the really really old seasons. It’s like I’m watching the same exact episodes that I was watching in the states. That was 2 years ago! And not only that, but one of my favorite channels, Nickelodeon, for some reason, is not in any of the TV company’s subscription packages. So my baby sister has a choice: either she watches Disney Junior, or she’s watching Kids Co. That’s it. You know, I had never even heard of a channel called Kids Co. till we came to Nigeria. And it’s the creepiest kids channel that I’ve ever seen. It’s an international kids channel that shows strange animated movies (Cinderella, the non-Disney version) that were done in the 80’s, and all of the movies are made in Russia, and all of the animations look the same. And the characters mouths are slightly open all the time. The shows are even creepier; some of the things that they’re playing are so old that my parents will come in the room and see it and say, “oh yeah I remember that show!” They have that Nintendo Game Master show (the only reason I know about it is because I remembered reading about it in an edition of Wired), and some shows that I had never heard of in my life. And there are 2 rules for Kids Co. shows: #1. The shows must have been canceled by the latest 2001, and #2. They must be super creepy and all look the same. Well, you can see where my thoughts lie on Kids Co., but seriously, the TV companies should do better. Actually, wait I take that back; keep on giving us shows from 1458 companies; we’ll have even more time to read a book.

Signing off,

The Traveler

P.S. I was planning on posting this yesterday but my internet was down so I had to post it today.