The Nieces 🥰

Just me remembering my nieces this night and their funny characters.

The first one; two minutes into doing an assignment, next thing she says is “an almost done” (i’m almost done). I’m like, almost done how, you just started! She’s  such a clown; although her teachers say she’s very quiet in school, and she keeps to herself unless she’s comfortable with you. That could be due to the fact that she changed schools, but then she was quiet at her former school too.

When she’s going to school, we usually encourage her to play with her classmates and speak up when her teacher asks her questions. Then when she comes back we ask her for the name of her friends. Now I think she has one or two or even more friends, she’s loosening up a bit outside her family and home. Her mom said she came to her and said I miss “Aunty *****”, and she said okay do you want to call her? She replied “No, maybe tomorrow, I’m very busy now” 😂. Ask me what this girl does that she’s always “vewy vewy busy”. 

One thing she does also that may irritate people especially in the “Nigerian culture” is ask a lot of “why’s”. Everything you tell her, she will ask you “why” it should be so; and when you answer her, she’ll ask you “why” that is🤦🏽‍♀️😂. She’s very interested in the process of things.

The second one says “e nuh working” (it’s not working) for EVERY thing! If her food is hot and she can’t eat it, “e nuh working”. If she can’t pull her socks or she’s trying to open a door and she’s unable to, “e nuh working”. Anything that stresses her is literally not working, and that’s exactly her personality. She’s forward and outspoken, and she will call you out. If it’s not working, it’s not working. Period.

Both of them act like my older sister and I when we were kids. The first one doesn’t like food much except for spaghetti, jollof rice and beans, second one loves food and eats anything and everything. The first one doesn’t like wahala, the second one is troublesome and very dramatic. I was troublesome and stubborn, but I can’t remember being dramatic like this girl is. She wakes up in the morning and starts crying for no reason at all. 

She’s always trying to do “ogboju” (ogboju means mild bullying in Yoruba) for her elder sister. That one can be playing with a toy that’s hers and this girl will just started dragging it with her and claiming “e miine” (it’s mine). Everything is her own whether it actually belongs to her or not. And once she just starts her drama, the older one will just be like “okay okay okay, it’s for both of us, take take take”. Lol. She’s just like this girl carry your wahala and go. Sometimes she shows her, if she gives her one blow like this ehn, then that one will report to the whole world that her sister hit her, choosing to forget that she has been harassing her sister and her sister finally reacted.

It’s funny how I’m the one who can’t stand her drama at all. She knows I give her tough time so she’s always giving me the side eye. “You tell me say you stubborn I tell you say I stubborn pass you”, omo olomo o le pa iya oniya.