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[ { "role": "user", "content": "Until right from 100Level" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "In under Art" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Under Art" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "But not under Language" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ye…s under Art; that’s the creative aspect of it. They want to like improve creativity and innovation. So, when you learn about these things, if you have, like we’re into design, drawing art and everything, we will be able to reflect it using different tools like corel draw and everything." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ehhheeennn…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "And it can also be a kind of benefit because there are some companies that take like graphics designs graduates too, yes. That’s it." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hmm, hmm; especially all those eh manufacturing company" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes ma, Yes ma, so is a good one." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Wao!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I never saw it from this angle you know… so, it was nice. You didn’t, you didn’t tell me your name o, where are you from?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh! I’m sorry ma, I’m …" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "From Yoruba?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, I’m a Yoruba, I’m from Osun State." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay, so you are in your mid… sorry to ask…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, elm, are you talking about…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Mid twenties, Mid-thirty?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah I’m, yeah, I’m just twenty one" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You’re just, uh!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You’re just… Uh!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Almost graduating" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "And you are… When did you enter?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, elllm, 2015. I was errrm, 16years when I entered… So I’m graduating already" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, to this place ma" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "How was it, your experience, university, you know, excitement, did you, like… you, you know, you’re just like a baby, you know finishing secondary school…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, just coming down to this place…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "And not matured and you’re coming into… you know what tertiary institution is you know…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, of course ma. I, i was actually young when I came in and then I… hopefully I met good people in my room, so they were almost in their final years when I got to the room. So, they were doing like tutor me, mentor me, sometimes we go to, we will go to the library…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Honestly…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You are so lucky…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You will read, you will go to fellowship, you will socialize…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hmmmmmmm… You are so lucky…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That kind of things and it actually helped me a lot" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Good people" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "To actually mentor you but usually a lot of people will mess up the first year…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Not mess up per say but… the need to take new direction…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "They won’t be able to cope with the stress and everything…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Hmmm, hmmm… That’s interesting!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Alright…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So, thank you sooo, sooo much!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah, you are welcome ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I, your name again…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes ma…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So, by this time next year, you will no more be here" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ahn… yes. We’ve seen the calendar proposed so by… by January next year we will finish exam, so by maybe March or June, we should be going for NYSC" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "For your youth service…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay, what’s, what’s your plan after NYSC, Masters?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Errrrm, I’m thinking in two ways, so I’m, if possible I get errrrrm, I’m thinking of errm Customer Service and Public Relation too, I’m thinking of actually looking for a job like just to start something first before I go for professional elm certificate. And on the other hand is Academics, I also want to go into Academics so…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "If I have a chance of being… at times this kind of thing they do for students, if you finish with a first class, there’s a possibility that you will be taken into the department…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I was going to ask you that. what’s your… CGPA?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "My CGPA… Eh, 6.2. So, I’m hopeful…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "What?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "6. Yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "6.2" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It’s first class" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Oh my God!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes ma. So, I’m hopeful like that i will finish with that grade, so I’m thinking of being taken to the department" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ah no, your this thing is so good and very impressive. I was going to ask you…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I thought, first, first class is 4.5" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Our grade is 7.0. We are using 7.0 scale. The new ones are…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You are using 7.0 scale?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "The new ones are using 4.0 scale" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ehhhhenn… Okay, because when we were, errrrm, errrrm, err, graduated ours was 5.0 scale…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay ma" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Then. So, 4.5, is first class…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay, yes ma" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "During my own time because I finished from here, it was 4.5 ranging for about…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, yes because we used 5." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "5.0" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So, now they’ve…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They’ve raised…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "They’ve changed it to 7.0 scale" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So, it’s from 6.0 to 7.0 as first class" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So you have to maintain it o…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes… that’s the…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You must not drop" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So errrm, how do they now read A, B, C, D, E, F, you still have it that way?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, that’s what we still use" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You still have it that way?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes ma" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "They just change the scale to now, is now to errrm, 5.0. So, 4.5 to 5.0 is first class now for the 17/18 session upward" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay, okay" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, 4.5…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is still first class?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yees, yes, yes ma… To 5.0 for the new ones. Starting from 17/18 session upward but ours is, you know we resumed… So, we are using 7, 7.0 scale" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "2015-2016 their own scale is different from 2016-2017. So, that means people doing 2017-2018 too will differ?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes ma, yes ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So, their own will go back to how it used to be?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes, it used to be…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So, your set is now the last set there using…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yeah, using the 7.0 scale. Yes ma, yes ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay, that’s lovely and you are on 6. …" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Oh my … that’s lovely" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "At twenty, you sure do know what you want you know?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes ma" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It’s good to always know what you want" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "It’s even written all over you" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes. So, asides from… the English you just spoke now, do you speak pidgin, are you good, though you communicate with your friends, how…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes. In the hostel we speak pidgin in the hostel… So that’s another opportunity and I speak Yoruba when I’m at home" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "It will be nice to hear you speak pidgin. Someone who is a bookworm You expect that there… when you will hear like… Ahhh! Really!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I’m, I’m not a bookworm per say I just try and read and then I socialize too. Ah, I’m a member of sigma club in UI. So, a philanthropic club that will just look out for… we do charity deals and then, then look out for members who are once students of UI and then try to bring them to the club and we give out to people like schools, charity homes and everything…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So that it will not be academics alone. Then aside that, there was in, when I was in 200Level that was when I started…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okayyyy. Ah, you’re very active…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So now in the hostel, nobody yes…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, there are still some people in the hostel; those who are on IT" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okayyy, Okay" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay thank you so much" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You’re welcome ma" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Thank you so much eh!" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You’ve actually convinced me. So…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "So, if he comes tomorrow, you will…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Let him come to the house, I will meet them in the house, they will do what they want to do" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "As in, you will be where he is working" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ehen, I will sit down; because is as if when you, you know when you give someone that take my car, go and fix it, bring it back, they’ve, they are relaxed. So, it has also taught me a lesson. Take the key, take my car, fix it up, now… it is very annoying" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Is that his father?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, that is… baba driver; That drives my husband" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ohhh" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hmmm. So, maybe he came to repair a car or something" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Ohhhh, he drives your husband?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Hmmm but not all the time" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay, the one that checked it in the morning" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okayyy. Was that why he was blessing you, blessing you, blessing you, you give him free things?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ehen, I give him stuffs, yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okayyy" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "that's the park, these parks" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay, okay" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "That’s the fare, this mass transit, that’s it" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "We are stopping somewhere here?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No, we are going, she said there’s a place that someone can sleep." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Okay" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "But this’s where I will meet her, her church. I will call mama, let me know where she is. I stop by this boy to buy time small" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "You no dey speak pidgin?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "We dey speak sha" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "why I come talk something, una dey, dey do like say una no dey speak pidgin English." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "exactly!" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "but then…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "you say?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "...we are dragging food." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "...we are dragging something." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I don’t think everybody…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "everybody here, yes" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "but in campus, it is somehow when you.. like one girl told me that she doesn’t know how to speak pidgin." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "there are people like that naw" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I said… who does not know.. who doesn’t know.. pidgin is a natural thing. It comes naturally. That’s the way I feel." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "when Nigerians are around … like our conversations in class among the guys eventhough we are outside, was purely pidgin." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "even in our class." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "only when..." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yeah.. in our class" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "even in your class?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yes." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "yes." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "so when you are talking to the boys you..." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "speak pidgin…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "speak pidgin?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "you guys speak pidgin?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "sometimes we speak English if we want some people …we would just have to respect ourselves… please can you help." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ok.. but when you want to like…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "beg money…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "make fun.. make fun.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "how far naw .. how far naw" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "So when you need something" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "when you need something.. you go in English.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "yeah.. we go in that level.. like how far about that stuff" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "just for research… ok..bye.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "you are ok now, right?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "ok… bye bye" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "No.. I can speak in pidgin..but.. I speak it. I don’t know how to…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "why are you ah ah.." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I don’t know how to provide.." }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "but do you know how to speak pidgin?" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "yes naw" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "why not you people talk in pidgin Let’s hear you…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "where are you from.. where are you from?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I’m from Imo state." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "of course.. are you Igbo too?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "yes…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "ah ah.. Igbo people speak pidgin a lot naw; especially when you see them in campuses and … that’s the way to show \t\t\t\t\tthat they are campus girls, you know…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I dey tell you.. but dem no sabi speak…nobody dey speak Igbo.. I swear" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "I no hear you, you say wetin? you say wetin I been tell you that time.. blessing.. ok.. no no no. ok. \t\tNa because of the light. Na because of the light. But him come talk say dem don take light. Him \t\tdon dey comot? \tOk. Dem just bring back light now. Ok. Ok. Ok. Make e do light naw" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "And e dey rain o." } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "make e do light naw. Make he do light now. Eh.. no worry naw. you go do the light naw, No worry. \t\tOk. alright" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "… or two…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "You wanted the…" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "My parents don’t even know when I was going to Abuja, I had to tell my mum alone …, I went to write Jamb, I passed my Jamb and came to Abuja. They said I should come and write post ume, I couldn’t that post ume I missed it. So, I went to, that day, that period aunty Anonymous was still on seat … she was still on seat and my, my maternal aunty, then the senator then, she was still on seat. Then I went to, like just told her that … Abuja. … what hap_PEned to Uniport? … I don’t like Uniport aunty, disturbance Uniport is too much and I just need change of environment. That’s what she told me,I shouldn’t disturb her if I come to Abuja. I said I will not disturb you.Ehh, just give me that ehen… ehen… what do they call it again? Ehen… mtchew, they will recommend you to…" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Okay" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "Any school like if you want to, if you, if you are looking for a job now, they will still give you that recommendation later, just go to any place and drop it there, they will give you the job" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ahn-ahn, have you not done that?" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I’ve, she’s no longer on seat again nah" } ]
[ { "role": "user", "content": "Ohhhhhhh, you missed something o" }, { "role": "assistant", "content": "I missed that. Then, even the guy that she hel_PEd then, the guy, I helped one guy, the guy schooled in ABSU. For four years, this guy never get job." } ]