Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 2 (Week2)| Introduce Your Family - Tell us about your Parents, wife, husband, kids and other Family members! by @ebuahsang1

Hello fellow steemians, good afternoon or whatever time you are reading this post. Today is another day to participate and engage in this seasons engagement challenge. The season two is an awesome time to be on steemit and get to read from amazing people. The subject for discussion is week is quite an interesting one, talking about the core of every society, the family. In this post, I will share my family with
you all.

My mother and I.

1- Who are your family members? Where do the live? What is their occupation?.

Who are your family members?

When it comes to family in Africa, we usually include the extended family. But I will like to talk about both my extended family and nuclea family. As I did mentioned in my Achievement 1 Task, the introductory post, I am the only child to my mother and father. Was raised by my mother, my father passed away when I was just 5 years. So when it comes to an immediate family I have just my mother.

However, as I did mentioned, family in Africa is not immediate, as I grew up with my cousins in the same house. So in total we were 8 in the house, that is myself, my mother and 6 cousins.

Where do the live?

My mother is presently living in wum, in menchum division. It is in the North west region of Cameroon. I currently live with her as I work in the same place with 3 of my cousins. Two of the cousins are in the University of Bamenda while one is in Douala.

What is their occupation?

As for their occupations, most of them are still students. One studying medicine in the university, the other working as an Accountant while my mother is involve in buying and selling, she is a petty trader.

The one studying Medicine in the University.

The Accountant in Douala.

2- What special qualities do you like in each family member

As you can see my family is quite small including my cousins. I especially call them family because I grew up with them in the same house and so it won’t a great representation if I don’t mention them. These are the following qualities I like in my family members;

1. Hardworking. I did not have the luxury most others do in live, living in wealth and was raised by a single parent. The quality admire most in my family is hardworking. My mother is the most hardworking person I know, sponsoring 7 children in school by herself and so she has instilled that in all of us.

2. Intelligent. It was easy for mom to send us to school because we also made it easy. I am blessed with siblings/cousins who are intelligent in school. This encourage my mother to send us all to school. It’s the reason my kid cousin is in the medical school.

3. Jovial. I have a very jovial and funky family to be with. If you are opportune to be with my family you will see how jovial we are.

4. Christians. A foundation of my family is Christianity, it is a quality I admired in all of my family members.

3- Have you ever been helps in a special way by a family member? Tell us your story

This is a story that each time I remember I am filled with joy. I was not just helped by a family member but by all of my family members. It was last year sometimes around August, I was coming back from Bambili one faithful afternoon. I live in Bamenda back then and if you know Bamenda then you should be acquainted with the current Anglophone crisis. I was kidnapped by the separatist fighters. I was taken to the bush and tortured. The demanded for a 700,000 fcfa ransom and my mother was unable to raise the money. All of my family members plus extended family deep in their hands to help me. I remember very specially my cousin working in Douala contributing 200,000 on his own. This was very wonderful and I have never forgotten.

4- Who is your funniest family member

I will try very much not to be biased in my choice by my funniest family member is my cousin Percy. The one that lives and works in Douala. He is very funny and always fun to be by. I enjoy every time I spend with him. He also does movies as a part time hobby. The image you see below is a picture of him on set as a pastor.

5- Tell us any other thing you wish about your family

Almost everything about my family I have already said in the above statements. The only addition I will love to make is that I have the loveliest family in the whole world, a family rooted in Christianity and culture, a family that loves and cherish each other. I may be the only child to a single mother but I have never for ones felt like that.

CONCLUSION

I want to specially thank the Steem alive community for this special contest to make us talk and share fun memories about our family. This contest has made me to recount the good deeds of my family and be more grateful to them for loving me this much. Thank you for taking the time to read.

I invite @majeruis, @rosita-nkefor and @dholy1 to participate in this challenge.