#School Days – EPISODE 12 ********************************** They say change is constant and is a good thing but how true is that? At times change can be a bad thing, a really bad thing. If you are in doubt ask a lady whose heart was broken by a guy for a reason and I can tell you for sure that her response would be ‘he just changed’. Why am I giving you this boring lecture on change? Well, let’s just say the transition from primary school to junior secondary school and then senior secondary school brought about a big change in my life. Firstly, I recalled finally opening the english exam script and seeing ’11percent’, on seeing the score, I think I fainted or something like that because all I recall was that Stanley woke me up later on asking this; ‘Guy! You no sleep for night ni? Sha where my script, Chibuzor talk say na you dey with am’ ‘Err.. Which script?’ I asked rubbing my eyes with the back of my hand and obviously not recalling anything that happened after I saw my score. ‘The scripter script’ Stanley blabbed sarcastically. ‘What?’ I asked not quite understanding him. ‘Ode! My english script na’ he replied laughing. And then it hit me, I instantly recalled it all. I recalled that I had tapped my chest boasting about my presumed 100 percent in english and then opening the script only to see 11, 11?! Like seriously? Who tha fvck gets 11 in an english examination that’s mostly on figures of speech, I thought. Then I recalled my eyes becoming to heavy for the lids to keep them open so I decided to close them for a while so that I can ponder over what went wrong, I sat down on my class locker and closed my eyes… The rest is history. Other marked exam scripts came and ironically I didn’t pass as I had expected but didn’t fail as much as I had unexpected. *** At the end of each session, the first three and the last three are usually called out during the general assembly, so whereas the first three line up on the stage and face the whole school with pride, the last three have to stand just below the stage and try their possible best to cover their face in shame. I personally don’t see what the point is in this but ‘na so I see am’. I can clearly recall my JSS1 end of session assembly from the colour of the shirt my form teacher wore to the complete names of people from my class who were absent at the assembly that day, don’t hail me for having a good memory but somethings are hard to forget… ‘This are the names of the first three in JSS1 B: for the third position we have Emeka Ogbonaya. Second – Amadi Chibuzor and the first is Susan Lawal. Clap for them as the come on stage’ one of our teachers called out the names during the last assembly. The three of them walked up the stage and was given a golden hand shake by the school principal. Come to think of it, why do they call such hand shakes a ‘golden handshake’ ? Its not like they would give you a piece of gold afterwards or their hands are made up of gold na? Anyway, I’ll let you ponder over that. And by the way, Lawal Susan was the assistant class captain, you remember her right? That chick that used style to ask for my name claiming it was needed for the class register. ‘This are the names of the last three in JSS1 B, as I call your names, come out immediately, if you don’t, we would assume you skipped the assembly and that would be a big problem for you’ the teacher threatened first before going ahead to call the names. Stanley and I stood somewhere within the multitude of students present at the assembly gisting and paying little attention to what was going on in the assembly. We both believed we weren’t going to be among the first three and obviously not among the last so why bother ourselves?. ‘Michael, shey you know say them don debadge senior Damilola?’ Stanley asked. NB: Debadge means being stripped of your status as a school prefect/ Captain. They give the captains badges when they are appointed so when a captain goes against the rules, his badge is taken from him meaning he isn’t a captain anymore, I think that’s were the word came from. ‘Tah! Na lie…’ I replied in disbelieve. ‘Why you think say the guy no they stay for hin annex again?’ Stanley asked. ‘Err.. E fit be because of their final exams na, you know say W.A.E.C no be beans, you need to concentrate and focus’ I replied. ‘So if hin stay hin annex, the book wey hin dey read no go enter?’ ‘Shey you no say you daft? You no know say our noise and wahala go distract the guy’ ‘So na why you dey curse me be that? I don tell you before say this your bad mouth go put you for trouble one day, instead of say make you just correct me, you dey curse me first’ ‘But you daft na? No be curse, na just fact’ I replied laughing out loud when… ‘For the last position with and overall average of 36 percent I call on Olaniyi Jessica to come forward’ the teacher calling out the list called out the first name. ‘O boy, I don know say that Jessica girl na olodo since first term’ Stanley commented, I just kept quite as I stared at the olodo girl walk up to the front of the hall and face the entire school in shame, I felt sorry for her. ‘The second to last is Adeniji Oreoluwa with 40 percent, come out immediately’ the teacher ordered but no Oreoluwa came out, it was asif the guy already knew his fate so decided to save himself from the embarrassment and skip assembly that day. The teacher ended up dropping a threat before going on to call the third person. ‘And the third lowest person in the class with 48 percent is… ‘ ***************** Watch0ut For Episode 13 Time/Target: 12Likes
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