Citadel Gang
By: Neville Oronni
Tags: Team, Blog, Andela Bootcamp Nairobi, Andela Bootcamp, Médium

The first day in Andela Bootcamp we were selected into teams with an LFA to guide us, it almost felt like an NFL draft when they were calling out our names and placing us it specific locations around the room. So these were the guys that I am going to collaborate with for the next 2 weeks as we go through boot camp and they were a peculiar bunch. It was sort of interesting to ponder what the criteria for selection were, was it random? did a little thought experiment but decided it didn’t matter now just had to get started working with my new team. Collaboration is a must if you are going to build great things and this time was no exception I had to get to know my teammates in a short period of time so I rolled the dice and this is where it landed.

So who are my talking about here, well we are 5 guys in total plus the LFA, all seemingly different backgrounds and tastes, our LFA Hussein has a keen eye for details, he noticed some errors in my work going through it in a couple of minutes that I hadn’t noticed working on the project for an entire week. He is obviously a Marvel fan as is the rest of the team making me the odd duckling in this case but you cannot win them all. He challenged me to improve my dev skills by making me take a step further with class-based views and improve my code formatting which I wasn’t a hundred percent fully committed to previously. All in all, I am thankful that we got an LFA that tries to make us better all the time.

Next, we have Brian the sala guy, that caught me off guard I didn't even know we had salsa dancers in Kenya, like me he shares the same apathy for coding in the afternoon. Oh and he is a Manchester United fan, I will give him a pass on that one, it has not been a good week for them after PSG thrashed his team. I also learned he is a home DJ and likes watching Ricky and Morty series likes as in he is obsessed with it. I noticed he is also the best dressed of the group I think he came wearing a suit on day 1 very clean cut, I don’t know if I can pull that look though.

The third member is Oscar who apparently hates all games that are played with balls! yea I mean that would exclude almost all sports from his list. Being outdoors, watching birds and reggae music are his cup of tea. I don’t know where he stands though on the whole Marvel/Dc debate going on in the team right now but he will have to clarify his position there will be no sitting on the fence on this issue.

Lastly, we have Evans who accompanied with his deep voice also shares the same love for Ricky and Morty with Brian. I’ll have to watch a couple of episodes of this series now just to see what this fuss is all about. Some of his peculiarities include loves cooking-boring, said he can make good scrambled eggs- we need evidence on this buddy, he likes playing chess and ps4 some good old fashion FIFA and call of duty- now we are talking, and also listens to old school hip-hop throwing out ice cubes name out there- now this is a guy I can hang out with.

The gang comes with a lot of interesting folks all of us working together grinding it day by day through Andela boot-camp. I hope to see all these faces in the fellowship it’s been fun to get to know them.