Jumia Mobile Week Megathon!!

As a tech savvy generation, we love having the coolest gadgets, especially phones. You know iPhones, Samsungs, Lumias(etc). But majority of us are still dependent on our parents, gaurdians, whoever, so it is not particularly up to us if we get that phone or not(sadly). Many times they would only decide to get us that phone if the price seems reasonable enough, and it is not all the time that the price is so good. Sometimes they even begin to query you on why you want that particular brand (and they won’t understand if you just say cus it’s cooler ) and they say there is no difference because ‘is it not just to call and send message?’. And let’s not forget how they will endlessly lord the fact that we aren’t earning our own money yet over us.  So alas, in the end, you are stuck with that embarrassment of a phone that you wouldn’t want to be caught dead using. 

But there is hope( thank God). You see Jumia( yes, the online store Jumia) is holding something called the Jumia Mobile Week Megathon, where there will be amazing discounts on all mobiles in their store. Any phone, you name it, iPhones, Samsung, Nokia, Infinix, whatever. Plus, hold on, there's a plus. It is sponsored by MTN, so with every purchase comes 3gb of data, whatsapp for free for 6 months AND free streaming of music for 6 months, with MTN music(of course). I understand the struggle for data so this is like one of the best deals ever! You get an affordable phone with extra benefits, so better hurry cus it's a limited time offer!

 The megathon is going to be held from the 1^st to the 7^th of June. So during this period, you can blackmail your parents into getting you that phone you’ve always wanted since they are a lot cheaper and affordable. You can pay online for the phone or on delivery, if you are someone like me without online payment options. To know more, visit www.jumia.com.ng/megathon. You can sign up to get early access to the megathon deal. An even better option would be to download the app, so you can easily see all the offers from Jumia, cus there are so many other cool offers aside from the megathon. You can also watch the Youtube video https://youtu.be/009d7EmgUoI  on the Jumia Nigeria channel. You can also win a five thousand naira voucher by spreading the word about the Megathon. You can share, or hashtag Jumia Mobile Week Megathon.

So visit the website, sign up, download the jumia app. Don’t miss out! This could be your chance to finally get that phone. I know I’m going to get mine. 

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Parents vs Results

There was a time when I checked my results and I thought I performed like, excellently well. So I showed my father the result. What did he tell me? “Don’t be complacent”. I was expecting praise or something, but I got a lecture on complacency and the way it affects people’s work. Parents.

Its funny really, I don’t think a Nigerian parent can actually ever be satisfied when it comes to academic work. Honestly no matter how well you do there is always something they point out that needs improvement. I’ll give instances:

Say you get an average of 94(which is a super high average) , but come third, they become curious as to the number of heads those that came second and first have. Or they query you on the level on how different they are, or how much better they are than you. (Like I’m supposed to know that).

Or if you do come first, but with an average of say, 88 (still high), they will begin to question you on the whereabouts of the remaining `12 marks. “You came first yes, but look at your average, what happened to the remaining marks?” As if they were misplaced and I could just find them under my bed or in the cupboard.

They act as if all the blood, sweat and tears put into attaining those results is beans. These people that will claim to have gotten and I quote ‘A parallel’, but when faced with a simple arithmetic equation will start making excuses. And oh my gosh, the kind of threats you receive concerning your performance in school, you know it’s either good results or your life.

I never really understood this as a child, but now I do. As parents, they feel the need to push you to aim higher and to not just be comfortable where you are. Even though it seems like they are giving little recognition to our achievements, we all know once they are in the midst of friends it all they want to talk about. They will use our success as stories in a bid to outdo each other’s boasts.

I know I’m not the only one that can relate to this, it’s like a major tribulation faced as a kid under a Nigerian roof. Now I don’t mean this as a slam to parents, at all. In fact I think its good motivation (no matter how annoying it can be).

So there you go, that’s how I feel about parents and results.

   

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First of all, honour to whom honour is due, Thank you Annabelle Omoregbee and Wuraola Ajeigbe for helping me brainstorm on a new name for this blog, although I didn’t end up using any of the names we came up with. Theaveragenigerianteen.blospot.com was a bit too much so I had to change it. Thank you Annabelle, my consultant for encouraging me and listen to me ceaselessly talk about my hopes and dreams for this blog and giving me really good advice. When it blows (amen), you shall not be forgotten.  Thank you Wura, for criticizing the former design of my blog and completely reducing my self-esteem so I had to change it.

This post is meant to be an introductory one, although I don’t quite know how to introduce the blog and I should have posted this first before any other post. I basically started this blog so I could write about and post anything. I don’t have a particular brand, I might post on fashion, hair, life, and I can even write poem if I feel like. Depends on how I’m feeling. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that this is an everything blog (is that a term?).Okay maybe I should call it an opinion blog, as I will be writing about everything from my perspective. I will be posting randomly on a variety of things, so bear with my randomness. I’m just starting out as a blogger, learning the quirks, so go easy on me. I like to write, so some of my posts might be unnecessarily long, and I know how long posts can easily become monotonous, so I will try to be brief as much as possible. Should I introduce myself briefly? Lol, I shall.

I’m Damola Adegbuyi, I recently graduated from high school. I am 16 years old. I am going to study Economics in university. See, Brief.

I’m done introducing the blog now, comment (nicely), share, subscribe, whatever, I hope you find my posts interesting. Bye.

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