1. When your mother makes you vacate your room because that’s where your aunty/uncle will be staying.
So all that foreign currency and no money for hotel?
2. When you see all the goodies they brought for you and your siblings.
Time to stunt!
3. When they are extra surprised you’ve grown since the last time they saw you.
Was I supposed to stay the same size forever?
4. When they start exclaiming that Nigeria has developed because of internet.
Just wait till there is no water in the tap tomorrow.
5. When they start using one accent that does not have head or tail.
Please which part of the overseas does this one come from?
6. When your parents start reporting every small thing you’ve done to them.
Who asked you oh!
7. When your parents volunteer you as driver/tour guide/personal assistant for your uncle or aunty.
So I don’t have my own life I want to live abi?
8. How they dress when you people are going out.
So you people don’t even care about fashion in the overseas or what?
9. When they start encouraging your parents to send you abroad.
Tell them please!
10. When your parents shut down that encouragement:
So no abroad living for me?
11. When your uncle or aunty take you out, they’re like:
Yes aunty and uncle. Spend that money on me!
12. When they leave and your parents now have time to be disturbing you again:
Nothing good lasts forever sha.
