800 Euros!!!!!!

It's been some weeks since I submitted the 1st assignment. I just got caught up with work (it was peak period for me at work), a few work related trips, fell ill a couple of times...the days just went by too quickly and I lost track of time.

One Saturday while I was taking break from anchoring a work event, I got an email from my Tutor in my gmail account. That was pretty strange, as I thought I had deactivated email notifications from the University in my personal email:

'Dear Ada, 
The deadline for Assignment 2 had elapsed weeks ago, and I'm yet to receive yours.
Kindly let me know what your intentions are, and when you hope to send it in.'

That email was sent weeks ago!!!

How I missed that still beats me as I type this.
Anyway, I quickly sent a reply to the Tutor letting him know I'll send in the assignment in the next of couple of days. Before the work event ended, I received a rather prompt reply from my Tutor explaining that he sent that email to me weeks ago, and the extra time allotted had also elapsed, as a result, I'll have to take the course all over again, as the first assignment is 50% of the final grade and I need a total of 60% to move to the next module.

In other words, I will carry over the module - Organisations and HR Management.

WHAT?????

 Instantly, my life became a turgid and suspended film. Everything thickened.

A module I struggled with?
Nights reading and developing a headache while at it???? All gone??? I have to do it all over again???
I think my worry isn't about taking the module again (I can live with that)...it's the cost!
So you know, I pay per module and it is deducted from my University bank account. The cost of this module is 800 EUROS!!!! Oh no!!!!! Not even now that foreign currencies are doing jangolova on the foreign exchange rate table. Let me bring this home (Just incase you think I'm shouting over N20K), I mean I have to pay N180,000.00 (One Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira) again ooooo! My own don done! Oh dear, how did this happen? What will I tell Mr Hubby? There goes my Christmas gift!!   :-(

My colleagues at the event knew something wasn't right with me. I told them what happened. And one of them said, 'what if you were pregnant and had a baby? Abeg send them an email telling them you just had a baby joor'
But that would be a lie na. I can't lie.

I got home and sent an email to academic support, explaining how I got super busy at work and fell ill a couple of times, pleading not to have to pay another 800 Euros.

Sunday was soooo slowwww. Slowed by sadness. I was frightened by the endless stretch of day that lay ahead.

And they replied on Monday morning. All my story didn't work. I need to take the module all over again and pay another 800 Euros. 

Till next week Sunday (God willing)...God abeg, help me survive this week.