Man Who Left From Ondo To The US 4 Months Ago To Study For His Masters, Shares His American Experiences

A man named OMOKINDE Temitope Babatunde has taken time to narrate his experiences on LinkedIn.

He left Nigeria on August 2021 to the US and he’s presently studying for his master’s degree at the University of Maine.

He has had some interesting life changing experiences which he decided to share.

He wrote;

Night of the Ninth of August 2021

I am actually not a poet, coincidentally those words above sounds replica to alliteration. They merely indicates the day I stepped into the fifty-star country called the United States .It was a moment of joy and moment where thoughts started flipping through my mind on diverse ways one needs to maximize the opportunity the land tends to offers. Perhaps statistics tells she has propensity to offer tonnes of opportunities. However, the joy and perplexity to be in a developed country where the systems constituting the country seems functional and productive always leave a cheerful grin on my face in the first week of arrival.

I can’t help but flashed back on how the journey started from the town situated in-between the hills in Ondo state called IDANRE. Attaining this feat was through God’s grace and the little effort I invested.

I had watched and heard a lot about Biden’s land specifically via the Hollywood movies, my expectations were higher than mountain Everest. I must confess my expectations were met. It has not been an easy sojourn so far after spending the first four months outside the shores of Africa but I am grateful for the grace that has keep me forging ahead despite the topsy-turvy situation I faced as a new graduate student trying to settle into the new system. The previous four months has been laced with sweetness and challenges as I commenced my Master’s degree programme in civil engineering with focus in geotechnical engineering at the University of Maine. Each time I was assigned to execute an energy-sapping tasks, I usually reminisced about a stanza in my Alma mata’s anthem ‘With God blessings on our side we shall go places’ I stood still and carry my cross.

Definitely, I had never had any regret graduating from the federal university of technology Akure where I bagged a first class degree honours in civil engineering, at the Federal University of Technology Akure in 2019. I was molded, refined structured and processed to be resilient to meet international standard capable of fitting into any sphere I had found myself. I witnessed a lot of cultural shocks ranging from having hard time communicating and decoding words from some natives and the difficulty my taste-bud had I finding the sweetness in the American meal. I couldn’t forget a day where I needed to write down my thought to a native.

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