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Excited, Tunde shared his plan with his family over dinner the next day. He told them about the world of tech, coding, and his vision to bring change through technology.

But his parents exchanged glances. His dad asked, “Why not accounting or something safer, Tunde? Tech is risky—and expensive.” His mom sighed, reminding him that they couldn’t afford “risky dreams.”

Tunde’s heart sank. Doubts crept in, but he couldn’t shake the pull he felt. That night, he found a local coding workshop. “Maybe if I just go, I’ll feel surer about this path,” he thought. Taking a deep breath, he signed up for the workshop, hoping it would give him the answers he needed.

SNAKE

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/).[2] Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards.[3] These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).

Living snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, and on most smaller land masses; exceptions include some large islands, such as Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, and the islands of New Zealand, as well as many small islands of the Atlantic and central Pacific oceans.[4] Additionally, sea snakes are widespread throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. Around thirty families are currently recognized, comprising about 520 genera and about 3,900 species.[5] They range in size from the tiny, 10.4 cm-long (4.1 in) Barbados threadsnake[6] to the reticulated python of 6.95 meters (22.8 ft) in length.[7] The fossil species Titanoboa cerrejonensis was 12.8 meters (42 ft) long.[8] Snakes are thought to have evolved from either burrowing or aquatic lizards, perhaps during the Jurassic period, with the earliest known fossils dating to between 143 and 167 Ma ago.[9][10] The diversity of modern snakes appeared during the Paleocene epoch (c. 66 to 56 Ma ago, after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event). The oldest preserved descriptions of snakes can be found in the Brooklyn Papyrus.

Most species of snake are nonvenomous and those that have venom use it primarily to kill and subdue prey rather than for self-defense. Some possess venom that is potent enough to cause painful injury or death to humans. Nonvenomous snakes either swallow prey alive or kill by constriction.

4.

“When he walked into the workshop, Tunde didn’t expect to find more than tech lessons—he found something that would change his journey forever.”

Tunde walked into the workshop feeling both excited and nervous. Around him, people seemed confident, tapping away on laptops, chatting about concepts he barely understood. But he pushed through, absorbing every word, eager to learn.

During the break, he noticed a girl sitting across the room, focused on her laptop. She looked young, about his age, but she had this air of confidence—like she’d been doing this forever. Her name tag read Aisha.

He overheard her discussing her project with someone, and her passion sparked something in him. Suddenly, his nerves faded, replaced by a new thought: I’m not the only one trying to make this dream real. The room felt a little less intimidating.

Good afternoon

How are you all doing

Feeling lonely

Can you imagine

Hahaha make I no talk

Love or no love