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My first day of school

It feels like just yesterday I had graduated from primary school.

When I entered grade 6 in my school, my parents bought a very popular and old book in my country, Nigeria titled "Eze goes to school".

They bought that book to get me prepared for secondary school. I told them I was scared of bullies, and I watched a lot of teen movies about bullies in secondary school.

I was also afraid of boys in senior secondary classes because of the behaviours of the boys in the secondary school section of my previous school.

As I walked to my new school in my flowery white skirt and white t - shirt, I felt shy -- as always -- and really excited too to meet new people.

I pushed the gate open and saw a scanty group of students arranged in various lines, they seemed to be doing their morning assembly activities and.... Is that a Rosary a student was praying with? I looked farther, more students were holding rosaries and so was the student leading the assembly.

That's strange, I've never seen that before.

I looked in front of me and caught up with my mother. We went to the Bursar's office to buy my school uniform, my notebooks, and my rosary and hymn book which I apparently would use at the school's morning assemblies.

I got tired of standing and I looked over at my mum and the Bursar, who surprisingly was a Reverend Sister, I didn't say a word.

I spotted a girl my age or a bit older by the window. She was wearing the school uniform. She smiled at me, I smiled back. She collected her own collection of notebooks from the Bursar and left.

Lucky her! She was quick.

Later, as I carried my books and went off to class with the Bursar's help, I found myself in a class full of students my age and middle-aged man who looked like the teachers I usually see in movies.

Uh oh, they were all staring at me.

I put my face down and tried to find a seat,but as I moved, I kept falling one book or the other. It was so embarrassing.

I looked up once more to see a cute face of a guy, apparently his name was Daniel(I heard a guy yell his name).

The Bursar ordered a student to bring a desk and a chair from the hall. I remembered when I first came to the school to write my entrance exam, the school looked a lot like a house.

"What a strange house looking school" I thought.

And when I had entered the hall with some other kids. I came out third in my exam, I hate third place.

I sat down and copied my french notes and I ended up sitting at the back of the class, I hate back seats, I also kind of like it because at back you don't attract attention.

Later, the same girl I saw at the window of the Bursar's office walked in and got a seat next to mine. Her name was Kosi, I have a friend named Kosi at home and we caught up pretty quickly for newbies.

Everything was normal, except for the fact that there were teachers for each subjects. Back in my primary school, one teacher taught all the subjects. . . Except Maths and English.

At lunch, I tried to locate the school's library. I loved reading books a LOT and that's usually how I spent my lunch break back at my primary school.

The door to the library was locked. I contacted a teacher, the chemistry teacher apparently, He said the library wouldn't be open until next week Monday.

Dang it!

I went back to class and found the other girls watching the boys play football downstairs at the varandar of the class (I know right? The class' got a varandar). I went over to join them.

Later, I went off to the school's canteen to buy snacks. There was no canteen woman. A senior student came over and started selling snacks to us from the canteen.

"What a strange school" I thought again.

After lunch, normal lessons took place with every teacher teaching one or two subjects. And at last time to go home.

My parents decided to pick me up from school since this was my first day at school. Apparently school started yesterday, that would explain why the class had a lot of students already.