WAIT, THIS EXISTS?

MORE REASON TO BE COMPLETELY OVER MY UNIVERSITY

(click here for the other performers) at UWG

This is a dance competition! An African Student Dancers Competition!!!!!

You mean to tell me this is a thing... in America?

(other performances here) in Texas

I'm so hurt about this.

If you know me well, you know African music and dancing to African music is like therapy. 

Coming over to this small town in Oregon is slowly but surely turning into the biggest mistake ever (also if you know me well this isn't your first time hearing my complaints)

I mean you're telling me African people actually come together and dance like this? 

Where I am it's hard enough to get other Africans to learn how to socialize together and pick up responsibility when planning something, speaking as a former ASA president. 

I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired of the Africans at my school. 

I would tell myself to drop it and find other friends who aren't African, but no one seems to get it like another African child. We have the same type of parents, we know the food, and when people ask some of the most ignorant questions about being African  ----- that's where we bond!

I love my Nigerian roots, my crazy Nigerian aunties and uncles, AND I'M SO IN LOVE WITH AFRICAN MUSIC  ... I say African because there's nigerian music, ghanaian, congolese, and so on...

Ask me on any day what the last song I listened to was and it's almost always going to be of Afrobeat nature

That being said I've noticeably stripped myself away from the community I was used to in California. There was this huge population of Nigerians I grew up with and I've just been slumming it here for school.

The sun barely shines here and I basically ... have no friends 

I mean yea I have friends here but there's a difference between friends. And FRIENDS you know?

No offense to the many awesome people I've met, but there's still a void. There's been this dream to go to college and meet my future maid of honor.

You're supposed to meet either your best friend, the love of your life, or if you're lucky both during your time in college...

At least that's what movies have lied to me about.

Instead almost 4 years in and I still feel like I'm in the wrong place. 

How disappointing.

And how interesting that a post originally about the lack of African community at my school has turned into this deep thought of feeling alone

... jeeez

I promise I'll return to that topic when university for me is truly over in about 2 terms. We'll reflect on my time as an undergrad.

Back to the dance competitions

WHAT IS LIFE YOU GUYS!!!!!!

I want to go to something like that... I'm about to add it to my growing list of things to do

- go to an Umu Igbo Convention and go to an ASA/ASO dance competition   

Not asking for much, am I ?

Sorry readers for the random weekend rant... had to put it somewhere

Let me know what you think about my "Great Undergraduate Disappointment" - I'll be sure to take your thoughts into consideration when I write that post in the future

***PS I did find real best friends (two actually) but not from here.

Being here just solidified the friendships to be what they are now. That's all