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Living in Blue Hostel off campus had it thrills and also it disadvantages. For me,I was already used to it all because I had witnessed a lot of different characters in the first house we stayed at in Abuja.

     Quarter 4 was notorious for it fights,noise making neighbors and gossips.

Living there taught me patience,tolerance and wisdom. Different people made up the compound called quarter 4,the gossips which consisted of mama Priye ,mama Junior,mama Princess and mama Christian.

The four women would gather and in hushed tones gossip about everyone in the compound including themselves because as soon as one of them gets up to attend to other business,they would gossip about her too.

Mama Junior was the leader and she was also into competing with others for what ever they have;little wonder she kept changing her children's school to the neighbor's own even when she couldn't afford the fees thereby making the children un-serious as they only spend a term in each school before they are sent away for inability to pay their fees.

    On days when she wasn't gossiping,she would bring out all her shoes outside the compound and count them while cleaning it or she would buy lots of meat and fry it in the open while munching on it with a bottle of coke.

Quarter 4 was fun as well as annoying so I easily settled down into the life of blue hostel as it was more like a barrack.

I would wake up to the boys playing football downstairs and also their gossips about the girl whose pant they've seen or which girl liked boys a lot and other such silly discussions.