Hephzibah's Diary

A while back, I traveled to Mexico and to save cost, I basically spent more time on air than on land. To and fro, I boarded seven planes in total. It was a seven-day trip; if I'm not mistaken, I spent 4 days on air. I am giving this background to establish that I spent a lot of time on air or in different airplanes.  And this experience made me notice something. And that is the runway time that the airplane has. In one of the flights, specifically, the flight from New York to Mexico City, the airplanes started running at 8:46am and did not fly until 9:22am. I kept wondering what was happening and why the plane took so much time to run instead of flying. After the trip, I started reading about airplanes, the runway, and all of that.  Summarily, I learned that airplanes need to run before flying to build capacity and build momentum for flying. In other words, most planes run to get enough speed needed for the plane to actually fly; they need the speed, the race in other to produce th

While we were about to go for rural rugged,  Rukky Okoro  didn't have flip-flops so she decided to go and get one. When she came back, she told us something interesting which I wanna share now... She said that as she was returning, she saw a man who looked like an "agbero" smoking. He was dressed like all these "area boys". She greeted him and just walked past. To her surprise, he responded with "correct English". I mean, he spoke sophisticatedly, he spoke like an educated person. That made her pause and look at him again. When he saw that, he questioned her, asking her if she thought he wouldn't know how to speak English or something. In defense, she said she only liked the way he spoke. And they exchange pleasantries and went their different ways. When she told us about it, we just discussed it randomly and blamed the Nigerian government for not creating a good system for graduates as this forces them into doing all sorts of rubbish like bec