Oluwatomi

I’m obsessed 😅😂

I am also Nigerian and Yorùbá (I assumed you are also by your name), but I was raised in the U.S.

When I’m in pain that is not too severe but I’ve done everything else I can do, I usually watch/listen to long documentaries and commentary videos on YouTube as a distraction. I even have some of them loaded onto my mp3 player so I can listen to them like podcasts whenever I need to.

Many of my classmates are getting their vaccines, but I am not yet 16 and here that is the minimum age for the vaccine, so it’ll be a few months before I can get mine. Hopefully the pandemic would have gone way down by then. Good thing I rarely leave my house!

Sometimes I put them on and I’m completely fine, and other times I put them on and suddenly it’s like I have forgotten how to breathe! I don’t know if it’s me or the mask anymore. 😅

I’m not sure if this counts, but I started a little business in 4th grade with a friend. I wasn’t able to play outside during recess much and I had picked up sewing and knitting a while earlier so I spent a lot of my recess time making stuff. I learned that my friend was able to knit as well and that she also made braided bracelets, so we created…[Read more]

I am the only one in my immediate family with sickle cell, my parents and older sibling have the trait, and my younger sibling has neither the trait nor the condition.

I dislike flavored drinks so I don’t really drink anything other than water- but my favorite type of water is hot water made by boiling water and pouring it into a mug, then adding a few ice cubes so that it doesn’t burn my tongue, but would still give the hot soothing feeling it gives trailing down my throat. I’ve also more recently been loving…[Read more]