Oyinda
These are the things team member Oyinda has experienced during this Internet Challenge.
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I'm a 17yr-old female from Nigeria. I reside in Lagos, Nigeria and recently graduated from the premier Girls' Secondary School in the country, Queen's College Yaba. I have plans to attend college this September. Working on Thinkquest this year was a truly wonderful experience. No words can describe the profound excitement that working in a team, this team generated. I have really great team mates and enjoyed tremendous support from my coach, Debangsu. This is my second and final(boohoo!sob!sob!) year of participation in Thinkquest as a student. Last year was not a good year because there was alot of friction between all of us in the team. This year, I feel that I have been better able to fulfill the objectives of this competition including collaboration, team work and especially friendship. You can't imagine how much fun I had emailing people I've never seen or spoken to. I made other friends through the MyThinkquest system apart from my own team mates.
OK, how did we hook up? Hans and Shenquan had been corresponding for a while. I sent messages to many Thinkquest participants and met Shenquan. He told me what he was working on and he needed one more international partner. I was not too crazy about the topic at first, I am more inclined towards science and the social sciences. My parents convinced me that was all the more reason for me to give art a shot, a medium for broadening my horizons. So I thought 'OK', besides that's what Thinkquest is about, right? Since then, I have come to have a greater appreciation for art and artists. My interest in Van Gogh was kindled in the course of my research and I find it easy to empathize with the people who consider him one of the greatest Post-Impressionist painters of all time.
What did I do on this site? Well, I did content and editing, correction of grammatical errors and that sort of thing. I have a knack for finding the perfect word for everything.
I really had great time working on this project. Learning has not been this much fun for a while and my ken of knowledge on web design has been greatly enhanced.
I have to thank my family and all the people that allowed me to use their phone to connect to the internet: The Eduns, Aunty Funmi Odubekun, Uncle Brimmo, Aunty Folake Bello, Uncle Olu and the people at PINet Infomatics.
I could not have done it without the help of my coach, Debangsu, who is a two-time Thinkquest Award winner. He always had such good advice it was annoying! I also have to thank my team mates Hans and Shenquan, you guys were terrfic.
(Oh dear, I'm quite locquacious aren't I? My 'About' is the longest!)
If you want to drop me line or have a funny joke to share or just want to be friends, beep me at strokey83@yahoo.co.uk.
As Hans would say:"Success!"
