Comedian Chigurl (real name Chioma Omeruah) is really funny and sometimes we do not know people's journey through life and what they go through to get to where they are today.
Chioma shares on her journey through failure, learning different foreign languages(speaks French Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and pidgin) embracing comedy and many more at TEDxEuston.
Was able to transcribe her inspiring story below:
"Before we get started, Education did not do a damn thing for me. I am a person that sorta failed in school, I failed maths with dignity and when i got P (Pass) in Maths, I would celebrate it and treat myself to lunch cos i had a 'P'...but look at me today, education did not help me get to where I am today.
After I failed in military school, I had to repeat year four and I told my daddy, daddy don't worry i would go back to school and he looked at me and said 'get out of my sight...he didn't want me to embarrass him, as per a whole daughter of a chief airforce officer, repeating... so he changed my school but after that i failed again, i left Nigeria and left to abroad, he was like Chioma you talk too much so you are going America to do Law.
He didn't care if i was interested in Law or not, he just wanted me to go School. I loved talking, doing crazy things, making peeps laugh but he insisted I went to School.
I did criminal justice for two years and I was failing so badly and I was on AP (academic probation) for two years, I was failing woefully. So I decided to switch to languages, my mum said i should study french so that i would at least have a major after graduating from school. but my dad was like why would i study french, in school despite all the money he paid for school fees, they (family elders were like what will french do for you...) anyway, I did not listen, I studied french and got my first job three months after School as a Language teacher.
I developed myself and also learnt Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin...you see, i was a crazy teacher, I was crazy even to my students. Sometimes I would be like, hey dearies if you pass this test, i would dance on this table for you...and when they pass i would truly get my ass on the table and dance for them, yea, i was that crazy.
After being in America for twelve years, my dad said I should come home....but he passed away a month after i got home....i had nothing doing in Nigeria sha but then one day in my house, i started doing this funny voices thing, and started the Chigurl character and send to my friends...and somehow, it spread and many people started sending it around, and it got back to me via BC, and they were like have you heard this funny chigurl, she is funny and razz, and I'm like wow, hat's me...and that was when i hit my breakthrough, with people calling me around.
You can watch video (HERE)
Chioma shares on her journey through failure, learning different foreign languages(speaks French Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and pidgin) embracing comedy and many more at TEDxEuston.
Was able to transcribe her inspiring story below:
"Before we get started, Education did not do a damn thing for me. I am a person that sorta failed in school, I failed maths with dignity and when i got P (Pass) in Maths, I would celebrate it and treat myself to lunch cos i had a 'P'...but look at me today, education did not help me get to where I am today.
After I failed in military school, I had to repeat year four and I told my daddy, daddy don't worry i would go back to school and he looked at me and said 'get out of my sight...he didn't want me to embarrass him, as per a whole daughter of a chief airforce officer, repeating... so he changed my school but after that i failed again, i left Nigeria and left to abroad, he was like Chioma you talk too much so you are going America to do Law.
He didn't care if i was interested in Law or not, he just wanted me to go School. I loved talking, doing crazy things, making peeps laugh but he insisted I went to School.
I did criminal justice for two years and I was failing so badly and I was on AP (academic probation) for two years, I was failing woefully. So I decided to switch to languages, my mum said i should study french so that i would at least have a major after graduating from school. but my dad was like why would i study french, in school despite all the money he paid for school fees, they (family elders were like what will french do for you...) anyway, I did not listen, I studied french and got my first job three months after School as a Language teacher.
I developed myself and also learnt Spanish, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin...you see, i was a crazy teacher, I was crazy even to my students. Sometimes I would be like, hey dearies if you pass this test, i would dance on this table for you...and when they pass i would truly get my ass on the table and dance for them, yea, i was that crazy.
After being in America for twelve years, my dad said I should come home....but he passed away a month after i got home....i had nothing doing in Nigeria sha but then one day in my house, i started doing this funny voices thing, and started the Chigurl character and send to my friends...and somehow, it spread and many people started sending it around, and it got back to me via BC, and they were like have you heard this funny chigurl, she is funny and razz, and I'm like wow, hat's me...and that was when i hit my breakthrough, with people calling me around.
You can watch video (HERE)
My two cents; in as much as she got lucky after all without her certificates nor degree, Eduation still matters and is very important in formation and packaging of whatever it is you may become in the future, Imagine, she never went to school at all???
Don't get it twisted, Go to school and be street wise- that's my life's formular. Hope someone learns from it! Cheers, and to Chigurl, Nice one!
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