Sweet!

[popo_jo]

Today in Psych was sweet! my teacher decided to give everybody that came to class 2 points on our test for coming to class on a friday because my class is about 300 people but on fridays less than half of the class is there.

So now i have a 91 on my test sweet!!!! and she let us outta class early wow and i seriously wasn't even going to go.

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[lil_mama]

my father is yuroba - which meant my name HAD to be (haha!) -- but my mother is Igbo (it's complicated. it baffles even me). i was born in Ife, near Lagos. i came to the US when i was about six to seven years old, with no trace of english in my comprehension. i hd to ESL for about a year and a half.

my came actually came unexpectedly. i was breeched, and back then in Nigeria, it was almost a death sentence. My dad was pacing the hospital hallways praying that i would b okay. my mom was a little freaked, too, b/c i was their first child. When i finally came out my Dad screamed "OLUWATOYIN! (Praise God)" and that was that.

My mother didn't want me to be referred soley as Yuroba because of my name. She was like, hey, you wanna name our daugter witha yuroba first name and last name...on no! so she gave me her middle name: Obiageli.
and beause of that decision my initials are literally:
O. O. O.

(take a deep breath)
Oluwatoyin Obiageli Odutola
(ahh....relax. *phew*)
get's me everytime, and it's my friggin' name! hahahaha!

Ok, i need to shut up now.
Enough of about me, tell me about you. hopefully your story won't be as weird as mine.
:)

[popo_jo]

Mine is not half as exciting i was simply born here in houston how boring and im not allowed to go to nigeria for fear that my extended family will cast spells on me for being born blessed (aka being born in america) hahaha wow now i finally have someone to joke about having nigerian parents and all their proverbs.

But yeah im Benin i dont know any other bEnins any the one time i met someone with my last name i was sure we were related Andrea Evbu Iyekekpolo

[lil_mama]

i've never met a Benien before.
awesome!!!

[popo_jo]

oh that's how u spell it benien makes more sense

[lil_mama]

i think so?.
that's what i've heard...?
(@-@)?

[popo_jo]

oh and hey how'd your family end up in alabama most of us are in houston texas (cuz of the heat and shit)

[lil_mama]

yea, i heard.
but, no. we actually lived in CA for a while -- my dad was on a working VISA until 1994; he got offered a prof. job at Alabma A&M near huntsville, AL and so here we are.

there are actually a good number of nigerians in Huntsville, AL, where my parents are at.

it's interesting about texas. i hea so much about nigerians there...all the time.

hmm....