THE JOURNEY TO THE VILLAGE

CHAPTER FIVE

The next morning, My uncles and aunts and their children living in Sokoto , Lagos, and Owerri arrived and the shout of welcome ranted the air again . Uncle Sammy the first son, his wife and children Chioma, Victor, Joy, Divine and Miracle lives in Sokoto, Aunt Linda, the last daughter and her children Oliver, Chidinma, Godswill and David lives in Lagos, Uncle Chiboy the last son and child of the family , wives and kids Jennifer, Dorathy and Mercy lives in Owerri . Everybody has arrived safely and we are now complete for the Christmas holiday

My grandfather is late and my grandmother, a woman of strong will fortunately is still alive and strong. My grandmother is a very strict woman despite her old age , she still have the strength to punish any one that misbehaves. she is a good story teller, always ready to excite and thrill her grandchildren with stories. she loves taking a walk, always visiting her older village friends like her. I really admire her alot

House chores were equally distributed among the older children anyone done with his or her own portion of the house chores can stroll round the village once the house chores have being taken care of. Cooking was shared peacefully among the mothers of the house and the older grandchildren assisted in preparation of the food such as grinding of pepper, slicing onions and vegetables and others

Our stay in the village was not boring at all as we visited so many places. luckily for me, among all my Cousins, I have cousins that are my agemate Dorathy and Chioma and together we paraded the whole village

Oneday, Chioma, Dorathy, Churchill, junior my brother, Jane my sister and I accompanied other teenagers whom we made friends with to the stream after asking for permission from our grandmother and aunt Linda who delightfully told us to but we should be careful. The road to the stream was hilly ,Stony and very far, we trekked and trekked and soon my cousins and I became tired and we started complaining especially Jane as she was the youngest among us.

'I am tired o 'Jane Complained

'I told you to stay back didn't I?' I quickly reminded her. She kept quiet.

'Don't we will soon be at the stream' said Mary to console my sister

'Dah I don't think I will come here again o' said Junior

'My feet hurt' he complained

finally we reached our destination and our village friends filled up their buckets and kept it at the side of the stream , they removed their clothes and dived into the stream

'Come and join us' they said

Without hesitation Chioma ,Dorathy, Churchill and Junior dived into the water, I refused to join because I can't swim as well as my sister so I held her hand because I know what she is capable of doing if left alone, junior is a good swimmer.

'Jennifer and Jane, you don't want to swim?' asked Churchill

'We can't swim o' I answered

'Awww too bad '

'But junior can swim?' asked Dorathy

He went for training ' I answered looking out for my brother who is already at the far end of the stream

'You guys are missing fun' said Chioma as she splashed water at Dorathy

'Oh stop that ' said Dorathy playfully

'Nooooo' replied Chioma as she made funny faces at Dorathy

'Ok then let the game begin' said Dorathy as she splashed water at Chioma

So my sister and I just stood , watched and laughed at any funny thing they did. I felt the urge to go and urinate I told my sister to escort me and she said she was tired.

'I am Coming o!' I shouted

'Where are you going?' asked Chioma

'I want to urinate, will be back' I replied running off

'Okay!! 'she shouted after me

As I was returning, I heard scary shouts coming from the stream