A Life In The Day Of Rebecca Ogunleye

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A Life In The Day Of Rebecca Ogunleye

Rebecca Oluwabunmi Ogunleye was born on 3rd of November 1987. From ten children of her father’s she was the fourth and first of the two from her mothers. She lived in Nigeria with her father and three other wives, until six years ago, when she migrated to Great Britain to live with her mother.

        I have to say, I hate the beginning of the week. It’s not the fact that I have to wake up at 8 am to go to church at 10 am but the point that it’s a weekend and I feel I shouldn’t have to go anywhere if I don’t wish to (when I say anywhere I mean church). In this case it’s against my will to go to church. I am not an atheist or anything, I do believe in God but I just don’t see it as a duty to attend church every Sunday because it says clearly in the bible “pray and it will be answered”. It doesn’t say church or any specific place. It just says “pray and it will be answered”. Thinking about this makes me believe that Muslims around the world that have no choice of their religion deserve credit because it is stated as part of their religion that it is a must to pray five times a day.

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Monday is not bad, but it’s still better than Sunday in my opinion. I’m normally reborn every Monday morning at 6 am by my mobile phone alarm. This starts of with a beeb, following by an ascending beeb, beeb, beeb. I always take a bad weekend out on the alarm as soon as it goes off on Monday mornings. I hit the stop button so hard that I feel the key pad sensor weaken for roughly a second before reacting to my command. Unlike when I was back home in Nigeria, there was no alarm clock but one of ...

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