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