Studying in UK

Abeke's future ambition was to become a Chartered Engineer. She has always pride herself as someone who can achieve anything in life irrespective of her medical condition and other life challenges she face. She is a very beautiful young lady, has in slim figure, smooth light brown skin, dark brown eyes, has lovely cheek bone, and has a distinctive blond/amburn hair colour for an Africa person.

She planned to go to the university, even before she got to UK. After a year plus Abeke got an admission from one of the universities she applied to with an unconditional offer. She was so happy and over the moon, even though she does not have the money to pay for her tuition fee let alone her living expenses. She was able to work for about two months and save up the money for her room rent at the university while she was living with one of her cousins. It was very tough for her because partly she was always hospitalised almost every month, she had to work and save up for her tuition fee which was £6,000 plus then as she was classified as an international student even though she was British citizen. They reason is, if anyone that wants to study in UK most have been and live in the country for more than three years priory to starting a university course before they are classified as an home student. And it was really difficult for her to even get a job, since she ad to know and blend into the system again before she can find her feet.

Her friends at the church she went to advise her to wait for another three years before she starts studying to enable her to save up enough money and be eligible for student loan.

Pastor Sam first ask "how are you going to survive?"
Abeke replied "I know is going to be challenging but I will survive".
"Are you going to be working as you study?" ask Pastor Sam,
"Yes" Abeke said (knowing at the back of her mind what the Pastor's concern was, regarding her medical condition).

Abeke prayed and believed that her father in heaven (which is God) is more than willing to give her more than she desires and ask for. She always pray that even if the tuition fee was £10,000 per year, God would provide for it.

The day Abeke has been waiting for came, to go and start the university education she's always wanted to do.

Going to the University
Bridget came to Abeke's cousin house to pick Abeke and take her to Newport, Shropshire from Luton, which was 118.94 miles, about 2 hours 22 mins to travel by car . Bridget was a friend of Abeke's cousin's wife called Maureen. Bridget was a very lovely lady who offer to take Abeke to Shropshire to start her study.

On their way, you could see disperse houses as Abeke and Bridget drove pass the Newport town centre whilst going to Abeke's new university. Tree and bushes started showing up and the road began to narrow as they move away from the Town centre until they got to they university. Bridget helped Abeke pack  her things to her new room after collecting the room's key from the student services officer as agreed.

The room is a very beautiful, pretty large and spacious. It has one double wardrobe with another one single wardrobe attached with a bookshelf, a single metal bed frame with a single mattress covered with a check like blue cover cloth and a reading table was place by the right corner of the room close to the main window. It has it's own little toilet and shower room. It was an en suite bedroom.

Abeke was very pleased with it.

She went to one of the university in UK,  to study Agricultural Engineering, which was within the country side, Shropshire. Her experience while studying was really challenging and hard because her classmates were not friendly at all and they were mostly boys. The boys were mainly country boys with short-sightedness, that has never probably seen a foreigner before. Who maybe thought other human beings of different colour never exist or if that person was different from them, he or she is an alien.

Saying that, the university only had 2% of foreigners, I mean non -UK students especially from non-European countries. So, you can imagine what it could have be like for this your lady, trying to blend and mix with people that are not even willing to see her let alone talk to her. However, she had wonderful lecturers that were accommodating and made that experience a little bit bearable.

Some of the guys started warming up to her after few weeks of learning under the same roof. Partly, because they have to work together in group as part of their coursework. Tobi was one of her team member who said one time while they were working together within the group "how is it like to come all the way from Africa and study in UK?". Which is reply to say "you got to do what you got to do in life, to get to where you want to get to in life"

Even mixing with other ladies in other department was also difficult, since most students has the same mentality. And the most annoying part of it, is that they always think that they are superior to other people or far better than them. She found this so irritating, not-wise and depressing sometimes. But she made up her mind, that she would do whatever it takes to accomplished what she was there for, stay focus and not allow other people's action affect her decision(s).

The students were always binge drinking. Most in their first year weren't serious at all, all they wanted to do was to party. To be continued.....................

Goals to Achieve while on this Earth

• Honor God in everything I do
• Get a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Get a Masters Degree
• Become A Chartered Engineer.
• Get Married to a wise and lovely husband
• Build a multi-million pounds internet based business
• Bless others with my wealth including community work, give out at least a million pound away
• Write and Publish my auto-biography to encourage others
• Write and Pulish other motivational books.
• Help a child to get education from primary school through to University
• Help someone to become a millionnaire

So, help me God, Amen

Note: subject to change with time.