Hello diamonds its been a while ,in fact a really long time since blogged about my journey so far, I have been on holiday and still trying to fulfill my dream and haven’t had time to update .
Quick reminder to all my reader remember the aim of this blog is to inspire people especially women to pursue their dreams regardless of the many obstacle you may face.
So in 2007 I entered into the competition called NIGERIA’S TOP MODEL in the UK, and like I said before it was a really bitter sweet experience, as I was in my second year had a lot of work load on my hands from school and also running a society as the PRESIDENT OF THE AFRO CARIBBEAN SOCIETY at the University of Leicester,
At the same time facing challenges in the modeling industries, as a young girl I was really under a lot of pressure to be skinny and started to adapt to bad eating habits.
And after a while I started to notice I was irritable and was isolating myself from people to avoid being in an environment where there was food.
The competition NIGERIA TOP MODEL was organized by a lady called Sandra powers and although she had her goodwill for the show, a lot of things didn’t go to plan and things got really ugly and there was a lot of chaos and negative stories, the plus side of everything was although I didn’t win, I had the opportunity of meeting some of the sweetest people who remain very close friends till date, got a magazine cover, did a fashion shoot for the daily mirror and various fashion show in London. Now at this time I was well on my way to fulfilling my dream and more than anything I was grateful to GOD. That same year I did very well in school and was looking forward to getting into my final year of university (phew thank God).
Between the end of 2007 and 2008 my life was about studying and with the help of GOD I graduate with a 2:1. My parents family and friends were pleased and happy for me and I was most proud of myself.
Fast forward to APRIL 2009…. After working for almost year I was faced with a very bad tragedy which forced me to make a decision to go back to Nigeria on getting to Nigeria I was so depressed and unhappy and was constantly running away from home, I spent most of my time in Lagos instead of my hometown Port Harcourt.
I prayed everyday for God’s intervention in my life and as God would have it by August everything was sorted, I had the best time of life in Nigeria and meet some really amazing people. It got to a point where I didn’t want to come back anymore to the UK, but hey there a time for everything and at that time I knew I had to come back to face up to my responsibilities, but that wasn’t really the driving force behind my wanting to come back ,
Whilst I was in Nigeria I experienced a very bad plane incident. Just as we were about to land Port Harcourt (my home town), e started experience very terrible turbulence and just as people where crying and shouting I look out the window and thought GOD WHY ME? Is this why you brought me here, not you cant let me die, I was almost falling of my seat and at so many times my head would hit the window, tear rolled down my eyes and I closed my eyes and prayed, and after 15 mins everything clamed down, lord know as soon as the opened the door of the plane I was already out..Lol….
I cried for days from the shock of my experience, and then I told myself from this day henceforth I will never let an opportunity pass me by, I will make sure that I do my best and try as much as possible to achieve my life goal, and even when I’m turned down I’ll be happy and grateful that I tried.
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