QUESTION 2. DISCUSS YOUR INTEREST OUTSIDE YOUR JOB/ OR YOUR EXTRA – CURRICULAR INTEREST/ ACTIVITIES.
The nature of my work is the type that is very demanding. Working with an IT firm has being had being a very demanding part of my life. I am with the administration has to be updating and also marketing our product. Also being the elder sister after my big sister who live in the United Kingdom with my mum and dad, am also faced with left to deal with family concerns on behalf of my parents. But all these do not curtail my passion to help the needy in my neighborhood. Almost everybody in my vicinity refers me to be a very charitable person and is something I do not take for granted. Am the type whose parents even though provided everything my kid sister and I needed in life, did not spend enough time with because they lived and worked outside the country and I had to watch over myself and my little sister in a very nice neighborhood where everybody would mind his or her own business. But a neighbor in the area took it upon herself to take care of us like her children so that we would become very responsible even though we had everything to survive and make life comfortable for us. This was where and how I got my inspiration to do charity and give back to the society in my own little way.
Notwithstanding the little thing written about me above, I like to do the following outside my job and other thing that takes my time and these thing I do, is mostly in my closet. They are things that I do as an individual from my own free will.
I do a lot of youth counseling in my neighborhood and because of this, am well- known in my neighborhood by a lot of youth in my hood because my door is always opened to them. I became glued to this when a lot of young people always wanted to share thoughts with me and the secret to this is basically because I come to their level because I have being like them before. My heart aches when I see young people going wayward when they have all the parental attention you can think of. I did not have all that but because a good “Samaritan” cared so I was okay so there are always people around me at home especially at weekend. Through this I instill the idea of being each other’s keeper .Now being each other’s keeper may also share each other’s need. There was a situation where a very brilliant young boy in the hood had to quit school when he got to the senior high school because his parents could not afford it any longer and because my door is always upon confronting the boy one day after work, he opened up to me. Now the boy is in the university which I am fully paying his school fees in consultation with his parents.
Also, I love to spend time with the youth of my church and other church activities especially in the organization of the church for services and special programs. As the head of the youth of my church, we have organized a lot of fun trips and excursions and many youth programs. In fact, I love to be with the youth.
I again love sports a lot. Swimming, football and gymnastics are my favorite sports activities and I am mostly joined by my junior sister and other some friends from my hood. We mostly do these every Saturdays and holidays. This is just because I was a sport girl in my senior high school and I must say that I was quite good.
Also, also I have being involved with a lot of volunteer works and community services especially, church outreach, and fund- raising, tutoring and mentoring. I would say these are the areas I have found myself to have operated in. My church has embark a lot of outreaches which I have actively gotten involved especially the one we embarked to the Northern part of Ghana where we drilled a bore- hole for the community. Also I have mentored a lot of many youth in my hood like I say from the beginning of this essay. Fund- raising in the church to sponsor the church’s activities and projects I something I love to do a lot. I actively do this based on the in the Bible that says “give and it shall be given unto you, pressed down, shaking over and good measure” and this has worked for me in diverse ways.
Last but not the least, I like photography is something I like to do that a lot especially Sundays after church services, trips and excursions with my friends and the and occasions like weddings and parties. One moment I really felt my photography talent had come of relevance was when my whole church went on excursion to the Boti falls- a tourist site in Ghana and I handled taking of the pictures and later printed them and distributed it to the individual. It was really a nice experience.