and I said something that I probably shouldn't have said thinking about it
now but I mean how are you guys and welcome back to my channel
my name is Laraddiji if you're watching for the first time you're most
especially welcome to this family have you seen the episode about the products I
used when my kids were younger okay I think you'll learn a thing or two if
you watch it and even have a comment or two about it just check it out
don't forget to like this video and subscribe if you've been inspired from
what you'll hear today shout out to my husband he's helping me
make all of this look very well I'll link his details down below if you need him
for video production projects in the New York City area it's a freestyle week so
I wanted to talk about a very important topic my experiences with schools I
attended back home and hear in US alright so let's get to it I love that I
get to go back in time with you guys to the schools I attended back in my home
country Nigeria compared to the ones I attended here in the States so thank God
for YouTube I'll also be able to watch this video many years to come hopefully
I really wish I started Youtubing many years ago because I think I have
some sort of memory problem mostly detailed memory loss for the purpose of
this video though I'll only talk about memories that stand out from all the
schools I've attended I was born in Lagos State this is usually the State where I
believe most people who travel to Nigeria visit first I don't remember
much from the first school I attended called Police Children school but I do
remember seeing a class picture later on when I was older in our family photo
album which I don't have here the pictures are all you know back home my
mom and I actually lived with my parent and gran will with my grandparents when
I was about four years old here and the picture was taken around maybe 1991
in the one in the picture I remember seeing my mom who was also a teacher in that
school myself and the rest of my Primary one class
that I was apparently a part of equivalent to first grade here in the
States I also remember my parents telling me
stories where she would try to get a seat on an overcrowded public bus by
putting me through the window of the bus and then telling the bus conductor she
had to get to her daughter basically basically getting transportation was a
hassle back then and that was one of the ways you know that people would resort
to doing you know to get a sit on the bus, so earlier on in my parents marriage,
they were living apart due to their jobs you know then my mom and I moved to
Osun State where my dad was I had a little brother by now I was maybe five
years old and the year was 1992, I remember attending this very small
school not far from my house called Osun State College Primary school it
was the only school I attended I had a school bus
I believe another school had a school bus but this was one that I used actually
so my brother and I ayyended only one grade here for me that was Primary 2
equivalent to second grade nothing much really happen here for me but I do
remember my parents saying I discovered the swing here and that my uniform was
always dirty, brown as brown can be by the time I came home, even my uniform
what, even if my uniform was washed dried, cleaned and pressed the night before it
would come back dirty dirty dirty brown by the time by the time they picked me up
and then we had to move again about 30 minutes to an hour away from
where we lived, then I started attending a Catholic school called Saint Franciscan
primary school I did my third fourth and fifth grade in that school from 93 to
around 95, by now I was about eight years old and not a much really not
much really happened here in this school but I do remember getting an infected knee
that made me walk very funny for an eight-year-old right because of the pain
I was in so much pain so because of the pain I was in I was walking funny, my
knee got so swollen and painful and after a while without medical treatment
it started oozing a lot of yucky stuff okay I don't think I've ever fallen ill
except for this, I think I got a septic knee from kneeling down because you know
that's how we show respect to our elders and you know like how Chinese bow
Chinese people will bow, we kneel down on the floor so I think I might have
scraped my knee on some dirt or something and bacteria entered it and that
was my first run-in with clinics in Nigeria so anyway I believe that's where
my love for nursing came from anyway alright, a nurse had made an impression
on me when I was being treated, while schooling at Saint Franciscan my parents
also made money you know farming, things were very tough around this time and the
only way that we could make money was to fund my dad had some experiences with
his dad so we were able to grow yam and peppers and corns and other things and
one thing that I definitely enjoyed about that time was that I loved helping
my dad in his plantation I don't remember a time when I helped my mom in
the kitchen but I was always with my dad so this made me very independent at a
very young age and I um even now as an adult I always find myself telling
people you know "it's okay, you don't have to help me, you know, I'm not helpless I
can I can do it" it's really what I want to say if I need help I'll ask you know
not in any proud way but I've always learned to do tough tasks
myself so anyway I don't want to go to another topic
so from Osun State then we had to move agaim back to my grandma's house
in Lagos State, my grandpa had passed on by this time, my dad won us lottery and
he would travel to the States so my schooling adventure continued that ended
in primary five in Osun State and then the adventure continued in Shadel
Montessori high school in 1996, I'll tell you something about this school, do, the
reason we started attending the school my brother and I my immediate brother
and I is because when my mom went to the school literally my mom looked up and
the ceiling was like oh my goodness eye- catching and my mom said this is the
school you're going to I kid you not, we went to the school because of the
ceiling okay I'm telling you so anyway I actually love this school I had to
repeat primary five I don't know for some reason 5th grade that's fifth grade
equivalent here I had to repeat it I don't know why, I learnt the Montessori
way of spelling and then I finished my primary school education
the year after there was a time I thought I would attend boarding school
in another State for my secondary school secondary school education and actually
I had to cut my hair in preparation for that but that ended up not happening so
now I ended up bald and needed another high school to go to.
mm-hmm and later came back to Lagos again and started attending Distinct
Medal College DMC I call it and lasted only one year in this school a year and
a half or so because two phenomenal incidents
happen here, this was the first time I passed out okay that's number one thank
anybody now I was most likely dehydrated for some reason, okay I remember vividly
Nigeria's national anthem
I blacked out and I do remember we were on the school assembly where all the
students of the entire school you know stood and the teachers would be
in the front and I passed out flat-out passed out, all I saw was one of the
teachers you know some of the teachers running towards me and they picked me up
and took me to the school's clinic so hmm
as a Nigerian kid when you pass out right?
All hell breaks loose, what's going on, what happened why did she pass out? so I was
given a liter of fluids and I had the most delicious I'm over sweetened and
concentrated chocolate milk thinking about it now, oh my gosh, it was so good
I was maybe 10 or 11 years old here and trust me I loved the attention the
second incident in this private school was that, I'm pausing the second incident
in this private school was that there were probably less than ten students in
a class so basically in my class there was about six students I think and then
we had male twins enroll and join our class, the twins are actually in
London now you know they're living their lives, they're married with kids anyway
we had down time on this glorious and beautiful day and we were talking and
you know gisting and I said something that I probably shouldn't have said
thinking about it now but I mean we were just gisting right? so I said "after the
twins we haven't had any student join us what's going on what's going on you guys
must be blocking the door of our class" hmm that's all I said I didn't curse, I
didn't 'shepe' for anybody, I did not say a bad word
I did not wish someone dead, I did not wish someone ill all right but
apparently the principal of the school was walking around at that same exact
time I was talking and all she did was call me
into her office, she accused me me me of blocking the door of that class so that
students wouldn't come into the class Who am I? what's my own? what's my
business? am i I'm in the school to learn you know are they paying me anyway I forgot it
whole details about you know the whole thing but I do remember the end of it
all was that I had to leave I had to leave the school okay that was the end
of the story I had to leave and let's just let's just you know disrupt an
innocent child's school education system career over nonsense right so I left
the school because of that, that didn't even hurt me right there was a book that
was gifted to me around that same time by one of my seniors then the principal
seized it from me why I don't know I never saw that book ever again this
simple story is is a big thing that happened in my life that I sometimes
don't even want to remember but I just thank God that that's over, from that
incident I kind of retreated and wouldn't speak or really talk about my
inner thoughts, my parents at this time were not with us and going through all
this really was very tough this might be the reason why I forget things easily
you know because I just try not to hold on to anything seriously in
particular so the moral of the story is that when you're living your life always
remember that nothing just happens just for it to happen God is the master
planner and he knows the beginning from the end I believe now from the bottom
from the bottom of my heart that God just saved me from a bigger problem and
put me in a safe place instead, while I was attending on the primary school you
know Shadel Montessori primary school they didn't have high school then that
was one of the reasons I had to attend another high school in the first place
but thank God by the end of the accusation issue that me I was the one
holding the class and not letting people come in, as if I am the
gate man and they had a gate man as if I was the gate man of the class so anyway
after all that Shadel International High School was born and
they were building it at the time so by the time although all that issue was
over Shadel International High School was enrolling students and there I found
myself I attended junior secondary school on the second and the third part
and then I I finished my senior secondary one and the beginning of SS
two when the plans to travel to um United States and you know reunite with
my parents came to pass, so the classes were that I attended in that high school
was equivalent to the eighth grade ninth grade and tenth grade I was
about to start 11th grade when we came here to the States
the awesome experience I had here was with the schools Inter-house sport, you
know Shadel International High School had and it's not most actually most high
schools in Nigeria most schools in Nigeria have um they call it
International House International how sports how sports where they have a blue
house green house yellow house and you know just primary colors and green house
so I was in the Yellow house which actually made me like yellow the best
that's why yellow is my favorite color ok wink wink for the future the entire
school students were pre-divided into these teams and I was in the Yellow
house you know team and I was voted to be the team's Queen you know cuz I got a
pretty face, don't I? yeah right so one of the senior students on our team back
then you know she made me up that was actually my first stint of make up my
senior she made me up I put a wig on, the most beautiful
gown you know, loan I won't mention her name here because I don't have a
permission but she was one of the people that left an incredible impression on
incredible positive impression on me I felt like a queen on that day and I've
never been so happy in my life back then this is why yellow is my
favorite color, I had a good time here in the States reunited with my
family I had to start over from tenth grade at Curtis High School you know in
New York City and because of my age they had to pull me back back one grade and
then that was also when I started my nursing my nursing career, life was
definitely different with relearning who my parents were in a new country their
believes their values and parenting was also their parenting was modified from
what I knew, schooling was very different I missed my friends and my neighbors you
know my mentality then was that once we leave we won't be able to see them or
talk to them again, I was depressed you know that was when Facebook came out
originally and became popular and I was able to reconnect with with them but the
relationship wasn't the same you know just like any relationship
I took public transportation to school and was told to go to school and come
right back home high school was horrid here oh my
goodness it wasn't like back home I pretended through it all just like my
pregnancies, students made fun of my shoes my accent and boy did I even
retire into my shell the more okay I'm talking too much now, I tried to be like
some of the students in my class and joined the running team after a while I
was asking myself "why why am i punishing myself who's running after me why did I
joined the running team who's running after me? and
figuratively and physically I was just done I was always the last in every
competition, I was alone a lot so I just quit the team I'm like forget this, then
I found another another team lawn tennis which I love but I quit that too
I was finding myself and where I had belonged but just the thing it didn't
work out in high school unfortunately my self-esteem was so low
because I had acne also, you know back home I could have eaten all the peanuts
I could have and not get a lick of pimple but here one peanut could give
me maybe five to six bumps on my head painful ones too so that kind of had a
negative impact on my life and I was still trying to get used to the the food
here too I finished high school at 17 years old
still unsure of myself, my achievements and what laid ahead of me this was around
2004 I was off to college I went you know pursuing nursing further, the funny
thing that happened to me in high school that I would never forget though before
I move on to college is that one night I had vegetables the night before going to
school and by the next morning I was having a lot of stomach trouble, while I
was on the bus it felt like everyone could hear my stomach growling and
grumbling, I had to poop and I tried so hard to hold it till like go to school
every step I took whoo was with hot prayer, I remembered my dad's office was
not far from from my school so and my dad was still at home because I had to
leave earlier to get to school on time so I made it to the office but the office
was closed and trust me I lost all hope my G.I. system just released the
unimaginable, my pants my shoes everything soiled
I didn't eat vegetable for a long time after that, trust me, I was so glad
didn't happen in my school my life would have been over as if it wasn't over
already like that would have been second death I'm always glad that I didn't
attend University back in my country there's so many things there's so many
stories that could have that could have happened you know like the professor not
giving me my grade but I deserve because I didn't sleep with him or the cult
member that would be chasing me or bribing professors just so I can get my
grades and many more, I thought I attended a local college here for my
undergraduate nursing program that took me five years to complete nothing
special you know really happened out of the ordinary in college except I was
still finding my way and then I found my husband, I started my master's program
before we got married and I wanted to finish the program actually before I
started having kids but that didn't happen the children came first before I
finished, it was tough but I'm glad that's over
all I get to do now is focus on my children's success there was a lot of
moving when I was younger and I'm hoping to keep that to a minimum for my
children so that they can grow in a consistent and uninterrupted manner, there
was also that period of five years that we weren't with our parents and even
though my aunt and my grandma did an awesome awesome awesome job raising us
in that critical time period of our lives I still would have preferred
prefer to be with my parents so for me I hope that there won't be a situation
where I would be separated from my you know for my kids so anyway the moral of
all this rambling is to cherish every moment, every experience, every situation,
every hardship, every disappointment, every negative time of your life you
know, cherish them because with with all that will come growth, it'll come wisdom
and a life of fulfillment. now to you guys have you experienced anything close to
what I have? have you ever moved a lot when you were younger? what were the consequences
that you felt you know that you experienced and you know any
separation from your from your parents while groing up you know do share your
experiences I always love going back in time and just relive memories you know
these are the things that make make you grow and really enjoy your life whether
you've had positive experiences or negative experiences I want to thank you
very much for staying with me to the very end I didn't mean for this to be
this long but I do hope you enjoyed every minute of it and I hope you learn
something new about me today so that's all for now you guys if you're new to this
channel once again my name is Laraddiji ask questions if you have any, you can
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remember or remember all you did to your parents mm-hmm all right so the next one
will be about the twins they are our natural alarm clocks
I call them alarm clocks for parents have you ever been a child you know, do
you remember all the things you did to your parents so you definitely want to
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I'm hoping to read from you guys don't forget to love your neighbor as yourself
remember to rest-in-peace we all need to be living-in-peace stay blessed I do
love you guys alright thank you guys for sticking if sticking with me stay
blessed I'll see you in my next video
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