SABINA

chapter 4

We entered the school gate, and asked the security where school registration take

place, "drive straight from here, at the end of the road, turn left and go straight, on your

left there's a story building, with ICT printed in front of the building, that's where

registration take place" said the security, we thank him and drove in.

This is my first day in school, driving down there's a tall building with senate chamber

printed in front it, that must be the senate building I thought to myself, its December,

and Harmattan season, but the weather here is so different from Abuja, for a moment I

started pondering on how I'm going to cope in this state.
We entered the ict building, the registration took a whole day, it 6pm and we still aren't

done, so me and brother Anwar concluded we should go lodge a hotel, since I don't

have accommodation yet we were talking when a tall, chubby, beautiful lady dressed in

a nude long hijab, walked up to me, "salaam-alaikum, sorry for interrupting you, you are

kanuri tribe, aren't you?" I overheard you and your brother I assumed, speaking it" she

said, "yes we are kanuri tribe, any problem" I said to her," well my name is Kamila hafiz,

kanuri tribe, I'm a fresher also and I stayed in the hostel," she said, "my name is Sabina

hadid and this is my first day in school, I'm not done with registration, so I have no

accommodation yet" I told her, "we are thinking of lodging a hotel," says brother Anwar,

"if you don't mind, come to my hostel and spend the night Sabina" she said, "omg are you

serious, Kamila, thank you so much' I said excited, I hate hotels. "just a moment please"

I said to her, I will get going, actually I have a colleague around here, will head over

there, we will meet tomorrow morning Insha Allah (by God's grace)," alright bye Kamila,

and thank you for everything, brother Anwar said, and went away, me and Kamila head

over to the hostel with Kamila leading the way.

We were on our way when I felt my phone vibrating in my bag, I struggled to bring out,

it's my mom, I picked up, "darudo Ammy (good afternoon mother)" I greeted her

,kilewasile (I'm fine" she replied, "how's everything going there, I've been trying to call

you and brother Anwar but to no avail" she said, " wallahi Ammy, the network here is

fluctuating, and we will complete the registration by tomorrow" I explained everything to

her and how I met Kamila and we on our way to hostel' to my surprise she didn't shout

at me for following a stranger, "alright sab (the pet name she do call me, it's quite funny)

, call me when you get there and take care of yourself" she said and hanged up.

We got to her hostel after few minutes of silent walk, she introduced me to her

roommates as her cousin, I was surprised, she is so nice, she offered me a drink and

asked what I would like to eat, I said anything at all. She showed me the washroom and

I bath and performed ablution, we performed sallat together and ate the pancake she

made with Nutella, we talked about few things, she told her course of study, linguistic,

we chatted for a while and we dozed off.