May Day Health Fair

If anyone had told me I’d be spending my precious May Day holiday running tests for people, I would have laughed and told them they were joking.

Fortunately and unfortunately, yesterday had I just closed from a practical class with my students and I was already planning what to do with my holiday only for one of my superiors to come telling us about how he wants us to help with a health screening they were organizing. We low key knew about it but since they didn’t tell us we also acted like we didn’t know. Now that we were being told, we couldn’t say no so we had to show up.

The health screening was organized by the University Teachers association (UTAG) of our two university campuses. From the name, you already know it’s something organized for lecturers and staff of the university. But it was still open to anyone willing to run some tests and also have fun. I was actually looking forward to having so much fun because I thought people wouldn’t show up but surprise surprise!

The program was to start at 9:00am but we had to go earlier to set up our station. By 9:00 everyone was ready and set. We had different stations for different purposes.

We had the nutrition area where you can go check your height, weight, fat, BMI and also speak to nutritionist about your general health. In case you’re curious, all you need to know is that I’m a full spec with no off days cos tell me why in almost 6ft! I’m not fat also, just the right size for you.😂😂 just kidding.

Then there was a station for other tests such as blood glucose, G6PD activity, blood group and the likes. Welcome to my station.😅 I initially expected the whole process to be smooth but tell my why your lecturers and deans are scared of being pricked.😂

You should have seen how big men and women were screaming . It was really a funny experience generally and it also gave most people the opportunity to run some vital tests which we don’t pay attention to.

As they say,men will always be men. Imagine coming to run a test and trying to flirt with me. What if I prick you till your vein gets burst?😂

Moving on, we also had indoor and outdoor games. There was ludu, draft, Oware and many more. Oh, we also played football, let me say ‘they’ cos all I did was laugh at them.😂 I expected those playing football to be terrible at it but I was wowed, these old folks are really active.

I thought after the football match most people would go home but that was when they even started trooping in to run their tests. At some point ,I couldn’t feel my fingers anyone cos whooooaaat!😂😂

To climax everything, we had a mega dance competition between the UTAG executives and lecturers from both campuses. You should have been there to laugh your lungs out.😂😂💔

As you know, they’re no program without a little item 15. Food was flowing in abundance!We had natural juices, pastries, small chops and what have you. As for us, we didn’t even have time to eat cos we had to attend to people but we sure did eat after. I was advised to eat more because ‘a little weight gain wouldn’t be bad’. Not my words though.😂😂

Anyways, this is an update of what I’ve been up to today. I hope you enjoyed it as I did. See ya!

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