I realized that I had no option.

Last year's rainy season was a terrible experience for me, I never imagined what happened to me one Thursday morning that it rained heavily, I was on a Zoom meeting when it started raining and at first I was happy but when it rained for four hours I became scared because I had first experienced flooding in my apartment.

I was just thinking about what I would do if it started to flood the next thing I heard was the sound of water flooding into my house and I started drying them thinking it was something easy but after packing water for two hours the water was still flowing in it became dawn to me that being in trouble, I started crying like a baby, I reached out to my friend and told her to pray for me and if possible she should come to my rescue because it's obvious that its not something only me can do and I was already tired 😩.

After that day, I promised myself that no matter the cost, I would do some bricklaying work before it started to rain this year because I couldn't imagine myself experiencing such a thing again.

I called my Landlady to see if she could assist in fixing the house since am going to renew the rent, she asked me to move out if I can't fix it myself because she knows how difficult getting a home is in Lagos state, after a while she called me and informed me that I have only three months to pack and leave her house, it became dawn on me that she wants to chase me out so that she can get a higher rent from a new tenant because that's what they always do here in Nigeria.

I went to meet the son to discuss this with him, he promised to speak with the mother and get back to me, after a few days, the mother called me and said I should pay a year rent and fix the affected places myself.

After much thought over the whole issue, I decided to renew the rent and fix the house myself because it was better than facing the stress that comes with looking for a new apartment in Lagos state.

I called a bricklayer to check what is required to fix the affected area and also a carpenter to help in changing the door and window nets, I thought it wouldn't take much money but honestly, when the bricklayer gets to find out more affected places, he said more cement its required and that means more money it's required to.

The carpenter also saw so many spoilt places on the roof, which wasn't part of my plan, but I need to fix everything if I don't want to go through the same thing I went through last year, so I told him to go ahead and fix everything.

When the bricklayer came to do his job he also found another big hole and he told me more cement was needed, I told him that I don't have money again and he should just manage, and he told me that I would just waste my money if I didn't buy more cement for him to do it once and for all, I insisted that I don't have money.

The bricklayer did what he can and left and the next thing I noticed the next day that more blocks were pulled from the wall, I quickly picked up my phone and called him.

He said "Madam I told you this would happen if you don't get more cement now you have end up wasting money because we will buy even more cement because we have to start all over again"

Then it became dawn on me that I have wasted money, I regret that I didn't listen to him now instead of saving am spending more.

At this point I have no option, he came back and I bought more cement and sand, he now did what he wanted to do if I had listened to him, I now spent double because I didn't listen to him from the beginning.

At least am done with the exterior of my house, what is left is the interior which I wish to repaint and change the Wall papers to make the house rook like a home.

But finally am happy I have fixed everything and hopefully I won't experience flooding this year in my house.

Note Images are mine