Ilorin

Well I've attended yet another AIESEC Nigeria conference. This time in Ilorin in Kwara state. Was a really massive one. About 400 people or so. I felt sorry for the OC. I am tending to find however, the bigger the conference, the less you get to know people. Especially since there were 30 Ife AIESECers there, so though it is not always intentional, I ended up spending a lot of time with them.

In all in it was fun still. Especially since I finally got to meet other trainees! And lots of them. About 10 or so from various LCs around Nigeria. We had reps from India, Sweden, Thailand, Japan, Slovakia, Canada, Netherlands, Kenya and of course Australia. There was supposed to be another Australian trainee arriving (also through Ife LC) but he couldn't make it from Lagos having just arrived in the country.

After having been to a few too many AIESEC conferences now, I played the part of absent delegate most of the time. Arriving a day late, typically gisting with Ife folks in our room and utilizing the pool. Incidentally, the Ife folks one of those times started rattling off all the armed robbery stories they had participated in/heard of. Wow things can get rough around here.

Parties too were a little more my style, affording me the chance to drink and chat with a few Awka boys and the various trainees, especially David who is now residing in Ife! One of the days myself, David, Tems, Bayo, Fisayo and Temujade went for a drive around Ilorin. Not terribly exciting, though I would have to live there for a bit to see if I liked the place. I even managed to pick myself up one of the coolest AIESEC shirts ever made.