THE SECOND SEMESTER – PART 13 – A SET ROAD: MY INEVITABLE SLIDE INTO ADDICTION;
In going back for the second semester, I was determined to redeem myself. The first thing I did was change the course.
Information Technology was hard, the hardness of which contributed to avoiding lectures. I thought I could pull it off in the beginning with the help of my cousin Juko, but how mistaken I was, oblivious to the work that needed to be put in!
That done, changing course to Journalism, which was easier; I started attending lectures and fell in love with Swahili. I did well in the tests and exams.
Like cancer, alcoholism was progressing. Coming to the end of the first semester, I discovered a nightclub I could go to on Fridays; Jekkers. Drunkenly, I would dance and enjoy myself. In the second semester, this pattern took over on Friday nights.
I got so wasted on Friday nights that I would spend 3 or 4 days hangover. Knowing full…
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