I AM NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE YET BUT ATLEAST I AM NOT WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY.

Learning is better than silver and gold; so the popular saying goes. We were told this over and over in kindergarten, primary school and secondary school; we even had a song about “we are all going to our classes with clean hands and faces"….. na na na.. I guess u remember the song.

I am a 25 year old male Sierra Leonean. Yes 25. Now that I’m saying it to myself it sounds so scary but well time flies…

Just yesterday I was in kindergarten at the Awada primary school in Bo southern Sierra Leone and then Becklyn Nursery and Preparatory School and International School Ltd Secondary in Sierra Leone.

Today I am a pharmacist (a specialist in medicines). Yes!!! Me, I am Doctor Ajiffa Victor Labor(I love Kenya for that coz back in Sierra Leone the title is Pharm.—I did not like the sound of that but well I love my profession and I love my country very much).

Like every other human my age both male and female our expectations after finishing our university education are very big—buy a car, have a go on chics we would have never had the guts to hit on (for guys), moving out of parents houses, balling in the night clubs on Friday and Saturday night popping Hennessey and Jack Daniels bottles, making that desired trip… blah blah blah the list is long…..

The reality is that, it is not always a bed of roses after graduating from college. Well some are lucky to have things fall in place for them pretty fast but for the majority life becomes even harder.

I can’t say I’m not happy with where I am today because it would be a very big lie. I AM VERY THANKFUL TO GOD ALMIGTY FOR BRINGING ME THUS FAR.

I would not trade this life for my past life of hustling through lectures, dreading oral exams, those BECAUSE multiple choice questions, plus one minus multiple choice questions, hours of ward rounds, my final year dissertation, waking up at 2am on examination day to go secure a sitting position in the exams hall and all...

I’m in a better place now; I AM NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE YET BUT ATLEAST I AM NOT WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY.

I miss having the liberty to skive classes though. Now I really can’t do that with work.

With my pharmacy degree, ideally I should be on salary, health insurance, and an allowance for transportation and housing.

But after finishing pharmacy school, I decided to take another path—I relocated to Nairobi. Two years ago when I was in Final part one, the only thing I knew about Nairobi was, Jomo Kenyatta and this was because the high school I attended is located on a street named after him.. Now here I am about eight months into my stay here in a country with such beautiful history and natural recourses; I can successfully navigate my way through west lands (that’s like the party center of Nairobi), I’ve visited the beautiful Wasini island in Mombasa, I’ve learnt about the wild beast migration through the Mara river in NAROK COUNTY and so much more..

I am not very open about the things I love; but I love my GOD, I love banana, I love my family and I love MONEY. Now here I am working pro bono for a year in order to obtain a license to practice in a foreign country.

The road has not been easy nor straight, relocation has been an uphill  but one thing I’ve learnt is that my God never leaves nor forsakes the his children and I really CANT GIVE UP NOW....

LISTEN AND ENJOY!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQBshQ11uohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQBshQ11uo