The Diary Game #38: Share your day with us! My garri processing day 1, 1st May, 2024.

INTRODUCTION
Greetings to all the wonderful, amazing and talented steemians. I trust that you all are doing very well today. I wish you all a happy week ahead. As for me, am doing just fine.

The alarm rang at exactly 5:00am in the morning, I reluctantly pulled myself up from my bed and turned off the alarm. I made attempt to lay back on the bed and continue my interesting dream which I left halfway, I heard my mom's room door open and close immediately. I jumped up from the bed with immediate effect because it was like I had heard the trumpet sound I wasn't ready for.

I quickly entered the bathroom to brush and washed my face. I was so much in a haste cause I was five minutes late for morning prayers and if I dare linger around any longer, I would be ten minutes late which will land me into serious trouble with my mom. I mean who likes to be scolded early in the morning, well I don't like it at all and certainly not from my mom.

Having said that, I still went ten minutes late to morning prayers and my mom sent me back to my room. And the reason is usually that our God is not a God of lateness and that we come to worship God not man. I just knew what awaits me after the corporate prayers was concluded, which was just for an hour. She called me out and repeated those same words she did everytime I came out late for prayers.

I went back to my room with mood swing to prepare for farm. We had plan to go to the farm the previous day to harvest cassava for processing garri. We don't eat to the farm so we set out to the farm as early as 7:00am.

Most Nigerians eat garri without knowing how it is processed. I just want to show you all how Cassava is processed into garri, the popular garri every Nigerians know of. I will begin from the very first step of getting the cassava from the farmland till the final step in which the processed Garri can be eaten in different form or prepared into different Nigerian delicacy. Most Nigerians eat prepared garri but do not know how it is processed. Come closer if you are in this category of Nigerians. As for Non- Nigerians, this process is not difficult at all, just follow the steps and boom! You are done. Please follow me through these steps. Let's go guys.

So you start by getting the planted cassava from the farmland by simply uprooting it with the stem. You do this by first cutting short the stem to a reasonable length, then grab the stem close to the root for easy uprooting. I usually prefer to wear gloves for this process as my delicate palms can grow blisters in no time. Please note that it's not surgical gloves but a work-tool gloves like the ones I wore in the picture above.

After uprooting the cassava, detach it from the stem or separate it from the stem. We all know that the root of the cassava stem is the main cassava itself so, it's the root we are after but not the stem. The stem is only needed during planting season. After separating the cassava from the stem, repeat the same process for all the cassava stands untill you have uprooted all the cassava from the plot you intended to cover.

Gather all your cassava tubers together and begin to put them in a bag big enough to contain what you have like I did in the picture. We got ten bags of cassava. Then you are done with the first step.

We came back quite late in the evening hungry, tired and exhausted. All I wanted to hear at this point was food, food and food. I didn't bother to shower first, I made my way to the kitchen and made garri to eat with the atama soup we cooked the previous day. I ate to my satisfaction then went to my room, showered and Slept off immediately like a luck of wood not minding that the time was just past 7:34pm cause I was exhausted.