The Diary Game: Rest After Two Matches And Cooking Okra Soup (10/09/2025)

Good afternoon, my friends. I have been inactive these days due to engagements I have had, and we had two matches days back, so I couldn't keep up to share my day. If you are familiar with the Israeli Premier League, you will know that we only play at night and rarely play during the day, so I have been occupied, and I am asking for your forgiveness.

Yesterday, being the 11th of September, 2025, I was just resting after playing alternately for two days and vigorous training. I couldn't eat a nice meal, so I decided to treat myself to a very nice meal. So, I told you all that I brought foodstuffs from Nigeria, including ground okra and garri. Yes, I did bring them down here because buying these things in a Nigerian shop would cost way too much. I made a very nice okra soup and ate it. I asked my flatmate to join me, but since she is Columbian, she couldn't eat it due to the nature of her taste buds.

^{Okra soup prepared by me}

It's one of the heaviest meals I have prepared in a while. Imagine finishing that huge lump of garri. Oh, please, for some of you that don't know what Garri is, it's made from cassava. After being processed, the powdered form will be fried, and then something like that will come up, though it might still appear to be in a powdered form, but it will contain so many lumps that can't be sieved.

After eating, I couldn't lift a finger, so I stayed on my dining for a while before leaving to wash the dishes I used in eating. When I was done with that, I called my family back home to talk to them. I hadn't heard from them for two days due to the matches we had, so I missed hearing from them anyway.

I was so heavy I had to walk round my room so that I could be relieved a bit because if I had wanted to sleep with how heavy I was, maybe I would have slept throughout the day. I just didn't know how I overfed myself to that extent. Then I took my bath and went to my sitting room to watch the TV since my flatmate had gone out to meet her male friend, so I was left alone in the entire flat, and honestly, I became really bored.

By afternoon, I had already slept off on the couch. I only woke up when the doorbell rang, and when I checked, it was my flatmate that came back. I opened the door for her, and then she went in to change while I went back to the couch to continue the sleep from where I stopped.

After sleeping till 4pm Israeli time, I stood up and washed my face, then I called my best friend to come so we could go to the mall together so that I could pick up a few things because the club had paid my two-day match bonus and I needed to get a few toiletries and cologne. She came, and when I got there, I had to sit and watch others shopping. She took this picture of me, and it was lovely, so I decided to share it here.

^{Picture of me taken by my friend at the mall}

When we finished shopping, I guess I made her do some impromptu shopping. She did not come to shop, but after seeing me get the things I needed, she decided to also shop for herself. I waited for her, and when we were done, I asked her to join me for dinner at my place because I had stew at home, which is kind of her favorite. The only thing left was to boil rice so we could eat, and when she came, I boiled the rice, and then we ate it.

^{Rice with stew for dinner}

After eating, she set out to go back to her apartment, though I asked her to spend the night with us, but she said she had somewhere to go, so I accompanied her to where she took the train back to her place, and when I returned back to my flat, I cleared the dining and had my bath before going to bed.