Carnival Day

There are a lot of activities at NYSC orientation camp. Many of them are tailored to enlighten us about being a Corper and serving our fatherland, and some others are basically for fun. The Carnival is one of those fun activities where we get to be merry and explore other traditions in Nigeria.

There are many tribes in Nigeria—371, to be precise—but there were only a few exhibited at the Carnival, with each of the ten platoons representing one. My platoon, Platoon Seven, represented the Opobo tribe.

The Carnival was going to be a form of competition between platoons, so each platoon had to come up with dances, attire, and costumes to truly represent their assigned platoons, and then a winner would emerge. Platoon Seven was assigned the Opobo tribe.

The video here is a compilation of clips from the event is shown to aid in living vicariously through me as I experienced it.

This experience, along side many others, is one of the many reasons I would say my stay at camp was memorable. I am grateful for the wins, losses, exploration of new concepts, bonding with people, and everything in between.

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