Follower milestone reached and a small New Year's contest for my followers!
Hey everyone
Today I have some great news that I want to share with everyone. I haven't done a post like this in a while but it feels really great to be able to do one now.
I recently passed 1000 followers on this great platform and it feels great!
Steemit has given me so much over the time I've been here and I feel like 2018 will be an awesome year for us Steemians. This year has already been great seeing the platform grow as much as it has and seeing all of the new users posting everyday.
A couple of posts ago I was talking about having a contest at some point and seeing that New Year's eve is right around the corner I thought it would be as good a time as ever to have one. I have been thinking about what kind of contest I should have for a while now and finally came up with something I thought could be some fun.
The Contest
The idea I had is that since it's so close to the new year I would love to hear some New Year's Eve stories from my followers. The contest will take place on this post in the comment section. If you choose to provide a picture with your story I think that will be even better since the winner will be chosen by the most upvoted comment by value. So some type of proof to the story is always appreciated. The deadline will be this New Year's Eve so everyone has a couple of days to think about their best stories.
The prize for this contest will be 10 SteemDollars for the number one most upvoted comment by value and then 10 Steem for the second most upvoted. The third most upvoted comment will be receiving a 100% vote on one recent post that they have made and that I like the most from their blog.
I want to thank all of my followers for the support and I hope everyone has a great next year.
Please write your stories down below and good luck to all the people who choose to participate in the contest!
Take care everyone and remember to follow!
Strawhat
Thanks @strawhat for this wonderful opportunity.
This is my story but it's a short one.
Every new year's eve I go to church to celebrate mass as we usher in the new year. The church is always filled to the brim, sometimes most people stay outside because the church is all filled up. Most of this people are those who haven't been attending mass since the beginning of the year. But with a new year coming they would want to change their ways.
The mass starts around 9pm Nigerian time, with processions and the Reverend enters to begin the mass. After the mass has been said and the time is exactly 12 am which ushers in the new year. We all begin to sing praises and shout at the top of our voice, thanking God for bringing us into a new year. Then the fireworks will begin, the fireworks is the most interesting part. Different sounds coming from different places and the beauty it creates when it's up in the sky, like a sparkling star. New year resolutions are made on new years eve, I write down all I want to start doing in the new year or what I will stop doing.
For the past few years that's how I celebrate my new years eve and it has been eventful so far. Looking forward to this year's celebration.
I couldn't add a picture because I don't have a picture of last year new year's eve. Thanks
@hornblende
Wow, sounds like it must be a really beautiful evening! I wish you and all of your close ones a happy new year and also congratulations on winning the contest. :)
Thank your for participating and sharing your story!
Thanks so much for the gift. That is my first gift of the year. Happy new year to you.
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Wow... This is an awesome idea @strawhat
This is how I always celebrate my New Year eve.
It's no more fairy tales that 2017 is gradually taking a bow, and the New year eve is already on queue as usual. It's always an exhilarating moment tailored with so much fanfare.
I would have to draft my "Happy New Year" message earlier at noon, in preparation for the Dec. 31st midnight, and would send it exactly at 12:00 O'clock to friends and family members.
Before this moment, I must have bought some fireworks that will serve me for the night.
Of course, I have to attend the New Year eve Church service, which we call "Cross-Over Night." I normally go with my family to the Church that evening, to thank God for His mercies in the outgoing year, and commit the Next year into His Able Care.
With my fireworks well stocked in my big pockets, am always one of the first to open the floor for explosion, at the conclusion of "sharing the Grace" prayer. I have a way of escaping the watchful eyes of My Dad.
I normally disappear into the crowd with my friends during exchange of New year Pleasantries inside the church, we have our place of convergence, and from there we take off to the streets to enjoy the night. The streets are always beaming with lights, youths dance around burning tyres, some masquerade display too will be on.
At the exhaustion of our fireworks, we stroll back with immesurabe satisfaction that we have finally parted with the year, this is how I spend my New Year eve here in Nigeria.
It's always an awesome experience.
Thank you for sharing your story it sounds like you do a great job celebrating the new year in Nigeria. It must be really beautiful to walk in the streets on that moment.
You won the second prize in the contest and I wish you a happy new year! :)
Thanks for this wonderful contest @strawhat
It was really interesting, fun and breathtaking.
I really appreciate.
Lol.... You just said the life of guys in Nigeria. Nice one
Lol...
Abi, that's it o.
Thanks for stopping by.
Good luck
Alright, thanks bro...
Humm! Thats nice! Kind of similar to how i spend my new year eve too. Nice post
Thanks for coming around bro.
Enjoy the eve.
I can relate with your experience.
Thanks boss for coming around, I really appreciate.
rock on
i want to be like yhu
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Are you sure u wanna do it.
Thanks for stopping by.
@ewuoso, you are the boss
If you tell lies again, I will not play with yhu
@ewuoso you are the main guy.
i just flagged yhu for telling lies.
hhehehehehehehehehe
I need more flags :)
Nice
Thanks dear.
Thanks dear.
Amazing story, a great way to wrap up the year
Thanks brother for coming around, you know how we do it.
Great way to celebrate
Yes o, my brother...
Thanks.
Nice story, I love it
Thanks for the read @kenking
Really appreciate.
What a wonderful way to end the year. +1 vote
More Providence to you, brother.
Thanks a lot for coming around to read and Upvote, really appreciate @jazzhero
Weldone God will help you.
Thanks bro.
Thumbs up
Thanks Boss.
Super Cool
Thanks @harrywill
Nice narrative. Voted
Nice post I think u win this
Thanks for stopping by to read bro..
Fantastic post...
I love this!
Thanks bro..
I appreciate.
I really get lost in recognizing people with one punch man profile pictures.
Here's my story, but it's a short one
Every 31st December reminds me of my most horrific experience.
It was on 31st December, 2012, I was travelling in a commercial bus from Makurdi to Orlu to celebrate the new year with my family. Just before getting to Asaba, along Benin-Onitcha express road, our vehicle collided (head-on collision) with a bike that was going the opposite way. Our driver who then lost focus mistakenly turned the steering towards a tree. It was after the collision that the vehicle stopped. Almost Everyone in the vehicle went into coma except I and a few others (maybe because I was sitting at the back). Not only was that accident tragic, what came after was horrific. Passersby took that advantage to steal from us- to steal from accident victims. I was awake, I was conscious but I couldn't move a muscle. Just in about 30 minutes, I passed out (became unconscious). I opened my eyes (came to) and found myself in the hospital. It was then I was told that the driver and two others (including the bike man) lost their lives.
I don't have any picture to add since it was 5years ago and there was nobody that took the picture.
Thank God you made it out alive.
That alone makes me happy
Hmmmn.. Continue to thrive safely.
Thank you so much for stopping by
Thank God for your life
Tomorrow makes it exactly 5years. Thank God I tell it as a story.
Thank you so much
Thank God you survived
Thank God, you survived
Seriously it was a testimony, thanks for reading
Wow, sounds really horrible. Glad you made it out alive!
Very horrible bro. Thanks for reading
You won the third prize in the contest so congratulations! :) I wish you a happy new year and I will be checking out your posts soon to choose one to vote on :)
Thank God you survived it bro..
God is wonderful.
Weldone
I had a ghastly motor accident and God saved me. i was making a Journey to Shagamu from Ibadan a town in Nigeria.
I was traveling to see one of my uncles in Shagamu when the commercial vehicle had an accident.
The vehicle was on a high speed and ran into a parked Truck carrying logs of wood.
3 People lost their life but thank God I am here today.
May God almighty preserve all of us from accidents and sudden death.
Wow, we all are surviving to the new year and beyond
Amen.Thanks @afrovoter
Last New Years eve I left church during the cross-over service. It seemed there was so much I didn't achieve. I ended up running 🏃🏃 through the streets at 11:30pm just to glimpse a bit if sanity before returning to church.
I will probably wear running shoes this time.
first of all congatulations for ur reach 1k followers hope u get more and also more succes in steemit then well @strawhat fro ur make a wonderfull contest but sorry i have no any story with the picture of specially new year and also with story otherwise i dont paste a photo of some other day of my life bcz it will be cheating so i only @resteem this post that so many people see it and participate this to.....ur conditon is some difficult that a photo of new year with story
Thank you I appreciate that :) yeah I understand it can be a little difficult but the photo is not mandatory so if you just have a great story then that will do too!
whats mean from story a story of our life our past new years or a story only on new year ?
a story from a past new years eve :)
Hey, congratulations on hitting 1k, bro! That's a great milestone to hit, especially when you actually have a fair amount of loyal followers :) I'm hoping to get to 1k by the end of next month, but I guess we'll see.
Hope you get a lot of entries in your contest, man! I don't have any exciting new years stories to tell, the only one that even sticks out to me right now is when I got the Norovirus and got horribly ill on New Years Eve a few years ago, lol. I'd say maybe I'll post something from this New Years Eve, but I'll probably just be chilling out with my fiancee and being a bum since between asking her to marry me a few days ago and Christmas, we're both pretty strung out from doing so much running around and dealing with family.
Again, congrats though! I'm looking forward to seeing what 2018 will bring us all :)
Thanks man! I appreciate it. Wow glad to hear it bro, congratulations on the engagement and all the best wishes for you and your fiancee :)
Me too man, me too!
Thank you! Appreciate the well wishes :) She's still super excited about it even after 5 days have passed, haha. I mean, I am too but she is still trying to show her ring off to me and gloating about it, lol. I guess she has the right to do that though :P? I haven't really told anyone about it in my personal life save for a few people, and I made a post about it on here now. I feel like I'm being a bit too antisocial about the whole thing, like I should be making it into a bigger deal or something.
Well it is a big deal I agree on that but you have to take it the way it feels best for you I guess :D maybe it's normal for the woman to be more excited though so I think you're probably okay! :D
Follow me and up- vote
Nah, I'm good.
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Lmao, yeahhh I see why ur good lol
Yeah, I really must be missing out on something special there. How could I do such a thing?
Congratulations on your 1 grand! It's awesome for you :-)
Anyway, I have never really made a big deal and therefore I, unfortunately, don't really have any exciting story to share with you as such. Last year on New Years eve, however, was quite a special time to me as I was sitting in an airport in Guangzhou, China for 8 hours waiting for my flight to New Zealand where I went for work for 6 months. One of the greatest times of my life!
^This picture might not be much of a proof, but it was taken as I left my hometown before I had 48 hours of travel ahead of me!
that's a cool story :) what did you do for work in New Zealand?
I hate having to wait in airports.. would've probably flipped out after a couple of hours xD
Thanks! I worked at a lodge in Milford Sound (I don't know if you've heard about it) and then travelled around for a bit! It was great :-)
Haha, I almost did - and even though it was New Years they don't spend that at the same time in china so I had pasta and ketchup for dinner for 20 USD and no champagne at midnight on the flight xD
Congrats on 1000 followers. This is my sad true story.
News years eve for me is either about church camping trips, family sessions with dad or nothing. Pure unadulterated "nothing"😒😒
My new year's eve went toward nothing for that year.
It was January 31st and we were supposed to have been in church but we cried off. I must say that I have the most controversial wards ever but I still love them like that😍
So that 31st night, we were home, with no parents, all our friends, every single one of them was at camp. That was the era of no internet and my dad never really believed in phones. There was absolutely no light that whole day and in the night either. So everywhere was dark as sin. All phones were low on battery, there was no airtime to call anyone(they wouldn't even pick up because they were busy in church), besides there was hardly any network. All the torches and rechargeable lights had given up the ghost and to crown it all, we could not sleep. I and my sisters were restless and there wasn't even the joys of chop chop ie food to turn to that day. We prayed in the New Year and sang a few songs but virtually, It was a sad sad depression filled night. 😞😞😞 we ended up huddling together till the morning came.
I'd never wish that experience on my worst enemy.