Hello Steemians. Welcome to my blog yet again.
post, I informed the community of the challenges I was going through but thank God for everything. Finally got my luggage at around 10.30am and taxied straight to my house to get ready for the meeting.I am feeling very happy because after much hassles and troubles, I was able to make it to @Stemng meetup yesterday. In my yesterday
Finally got to the meetup venue at, I guess, at 1.00pm. Met a full house and such amazing individuals as @gentleshaid, @rharphelle, @temitayo-pelumi, @emperorhassy, @real2josh, @djoi, @agbona, @bookiie, @thurllanie, @samest, @Mrbreeziewrites, @dandymee, etc. We exchanged pleasantries and banters and then waited briefly for others to arrive.
The venue of the meetup was at National Conservation Centre. It is a tourist site, a sort of mangrove forest, very swampy and therefore very rich in aquatic life too. Obviously, the organizer @gentleshaid who's also a botanist wanted us to have a real life view of some creatures like some special type of birds and monkeys that I don't even know their names. And for certain, that was my first time of seeing such creatures. I know, since birth, most of the attendees that were brought up in the city, may not have ever seen such a swampy forest for the first time in their lives. The Meetup enabled to see and appreciate what mother nature has for mankind.
There was three phases to the meetup: first is sightseeing and socialization in which we were made to climb some elevated series of ladders 😉😂 (lol I don't even know its name, can someone help me out please 🙏) with close observation of some special plants. The second phase was a sort of question-and-answer session and sharing of ideas. I was able to learn how project fundition.io works. During this phase also, @gentleshaid gave us a rundown explanation of how @steemstem community's curation project works, as well as very rich explanations to myriads of STEM related questions.
I wasn't able to stay until the third session, which I believe, was all about group photographs and general photo shooting. I left because I ran out of money and wasn't with my ATM, and so earnestly needed to get to my bank and withdraw some money. So I left the meetup venue for my bank from there, I taxied home.
In all, it was a good show; very rich and educative too. I was the only person to come from afar, and won't fail to attend if another one is organized. Thanks for reading.
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@eurogee
Interesting indeed. Nice outing there. May God bless our efforts.
Can you please kindly specify the Conservation resort's location.
OR better put, kindly confirm if this is the LEKKI/AJAH Conservation located at Igbo-Efon along the Lekki-Epe Express way.
Thanks.
It is! Thanks
A lot has changed there now. That canopy used to be wooden, frail, and delicate back then.
Really. Wow. That's a huge change indeed.
Oh year. i thought as much.
It's been well over a decade now since when I took my school pupils on excursion there. Back in 2006.
Congratulations on successful meetup, from overview meetups seems great .
The place is beautiful
Thanks for this message
The face of that guy in blue shirt 2nd left to you @eurogee looks somewhat familiar.
Could you pls reply this comment with a metion of his Steemit username?
It should be @gentleshaid
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It was really a nice experience to meet other fellow awesome writers. I was amazed to discover the faces behind the names. Meeting the president of euronation was awesome too. Hopefully, we would meet again.
P.s Its called the canopy walkway (the longest in Africa).
Ah! Raphael ehhh abegiiiiiii
You guys rocked it.
Thanks boss
I'm now etc........ I'm watching you, let's meet again. The word you're looking for is canopy, the funniest part.
Thanks a lot for the input
Anytime man
Congratulation on meeting other Steemians, and thanks for sharing!
It's nice to put faces on other Steemians.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks @irelandscape
It was such a great experience. Fun filled people. Cool atmosphere. Beautiful scenery. Great aesthetic. Cool landscape. Very picturesque.
Look at their faces... Great people. So amazing meeting you guys. ✌️✌️✌️
Great! Shame you had to leave though! I really did consider going when the Steem price was nice and healthy (before the meetup was even a suggestion in fact) - I've never been to any African country!
Maybe the collection of great minds will create a greater sum than their individual parts and stem-ng will become epic in the near future =)
I strongly share your optimism. Steem price will bounce back and we would be glad to host the entire steemstem community in Nigeria. The meetup was a big success. I expect a lot of new, brilliant authors to join us in the next few days. Thanks four continuous support Mobbs.
Thanks for the comment. Lots of emergencies that propped up and had to spend heavily. Would have missed the meetup if I had gone to the bank earlier on.
This is very true.
Regards
@eurogee
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You displayed your commitment and dedication to this community by travelling that far just to meet-up with stemng members, despite low prices. My respect for you has just been doubled. Thank you very much sir. See you in the nearest future!
Sure sir. The pleasure is mine. Steem deserves our sacrifices. Thanks for these nice remarks about your person. Appreciate
Baba, shey even monkey follow do d meet-up? Cos I been see d pix shaa. Notin do una jare
Yes ooo. There were monkeys everywhere
They just full everywhere o that I wonder if they were also invited 😂😂
@gentleshaid must have answers to this
Well, we can't really accuse them of being too much in their own house, yea?
Lol😂
The meetup was really interesting, the venue was a great idea. I had real fun, i must say. I got to learn a bunch of new stuffs too, and i was happy to meet everyone i got to meet. Trust me, wednesday could not have been better spent😊
That's the truth to the core. Glad meeting you guys. Thanks for being here by the way.
@eurogee
Even though you needed to leave earlier, you still managed to share enough for us to get a good feel of how lovely everything was :) Swampy forests, exotic animals, nice banter. What else does one need in a meetup?
Lovely photos. Thank you for sharing them with us @eurogee :)
Hello @abigail-dantes
Hahahahaha I cantnthinknof anything else one needs in a meetup other than the stated facts. Really appreciate your coming over to take a look at my blog. Thanks.
Regards
@eurogee