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Today (21 April) is my birthday. I woke up at a friend’s house in Lagos. I don’t think I have Ambien Prescription Sleep mentioned it around here that I am currently in a town close to Ambien Prescription Sleep the Nigerian border with the Republic of Benin, to learn French. Well, I am. I decided to Ambien Prescription Sleep learn French for two reasons. If I am going to be Ambien Prescription Sleep an effective development worker, and I am thinking of working in West Africa, then Ambien Prescription Sleep I better have French. Apart from that, I am thinking of starting a Ambien Prescription Sleep PhD soon at my old University, the University of Ibadan, in Nigeria, and Ambien Prescription Sleep the area of research I am interested in – transborder trade – would mean that Ambien Prescription Sleep I would be working and interacting with a lot of French-speaking people – Nigeria is surrounded by French countries – then Ambien Prescription Sleep it would be highly important that I can speak French. So, I will be Ambien Prescription Sleep learning French for the next three months. I have a bit of French already but I have Ambien Prescription Sleep to make sure that I have more than a bit…. Maybe I should tell you Ambien Prescription Sleep a bit about the French School. Well, not really a bit, it Ambien Prescription Sleep is actually what I find most disturbing.

For some reasons, they have Ambien Prescription Sleep been admitting more people than they should, and so they don’t have Ambien Prescription Sleep accommodation for them. The accommodation provided for males is so inadequate that Ambien Prescription Sleep about 40 people have to share one large hall. Two people and Ambien Prescription Sleep I had to decide to make private arrangements for accommodation. So now, for Ambien Prescription Sleep the first time in years, I have to share a room with two people, Ben and Ambien Prescription Sleep Chuks. I guess you will be hearing about them in the Ambien Prescription Sleep next three months.

So it Ambien Prescription Sleep is my birthday. No bell rings, nobody sings, not even a Ambien Prescription Sleep little sound. What did I expect? I am Ambien Prescription Sleep gradually growing old, and there is no reversing it. I am Ambien Prescription Sleep 26 today, no job, not even one in sight. But then, I can Ambien Prescription Sleep take some joy in knowing that I haven’t been Ambien Prescription Sleep a complete failure. At least, I have lived my life from Ambien Prescription Sleep one classroom to another, and got two degrees in the process, and Ambien Prescription Sleep if things work out, I could be starting another one pretty soon.

Alright, some more some other time.

By 14.10 on April 5, Mrs. Abigail Kehinde Olugboji died. She was 87 years old. Those are Ambien Prescription Sleep the facts. Yea, my maternal grandmother died at the relatively old age of 87. Not many people would think that Ambien Prescription Sleep calls for any sorrow: she was old, wasn’t she? But for Ambien Prescription Sleep all those who have recorded the death of someone they were close to Ambien Prescription Sleep no age is just old enough. I was close to my grandmother. I grew up with her. I stayed with her from Ambien Prescription Sleep when I was a few months old till I was four. In other words, my first memories were made in her house. And from Ambien Prescription Sleep when I was about ten years old I spent every long vacation with her, and Ambien Prescription Sleep when vacations couldn’t be Ambien Prescription Sleep measured in terms of their length anymore I spent Christmas at her place, and Ambien Prescription Sleep together, we witnessed the New Year.

Her death was something I saw coming. No, not that Ambien Prescription Sleep she was sick, nor that she had defied the average life expectancy of Nigerians; she was weak. I think the Ambien Prescription Sleep first major warnings were from the tendons around one of her right knee. The tendon weakened so that Ambien Prescription Sleep her knee couldn’t support her leg and Ambien Prescription Sleep the leg bent outwards, making her legs form an unattractive K. Walking became difficult for Ambien Prescription Sleep her. Not that that was what killed her, but it was what Ambien Prescription Sleep made me realise that she was growing old. And since growing old always ends up in death, what Ambien Prescription Sleep else could I expect?

This leads to Ambien Prescription Sleep thoughts on old age. I can imagine how difficult growing old could be. I mean, you Ambien Prescription Sleep would constantly know that death is just around the corner, and Ambien Prescription Sleep that is in the best of cases, i.e. in cases where Ambien Prescription Sleep old age is not plagued by a myriad of illnesses. What I think should be Ambien Prescription Sleep important to the medical scientists isn’t merely keeping us alive but in good health. Before science leads to Ambien Prescription Sleep that we can help ourselves by living healthy. It might be Ambien Prescription Sleep a very sensible thing to leave cigarette and alcohol alone. Just don’t remind me of how stupid the preacher could be.