My secondary school
By Moyin Oloruntoba
The name of my secondary school is ST. CATHERINE. I started
secondary school on the 24thFebruary 2001. When I started, I first got a white shirt, and then I got a brown skirt. After sometime I got a tie. After that the headmistress told all the new students about the rules she also introduced us to some teachers like Miss Ntauleng, who turned out to be our class teacher.She also introduced us to some other teachers. It took four days to introduce us to the school. After the headmistress had introduced us to the school we had to know our class. Students who wanted to learn bookkeeping had to write their names on a piece of paper & they did the same thing for needlework and domestic-science. We then had to take tables and chairs into our own classroom. We got mixed up. When the teacher came and told us where our classroom was. I was given a seat in column 6, row 1. I signed up for bookkeeping. Then our class teacher told us that our teacher who was supposed to teach us bookkeeping was sick so we had to do domestic science.
Our class teacher left the class and an English teacher came to our class and told us the books we needed. Another teacher came to our class to tell us about the book we needed for domestic science. All the teachers who were going to teach us came to our class and told us the books we are supposed to buy and where to buy them. They all said that we had to have our books before the end of January. The last teacher to come was our class teacher & she asked us about what the teachers had said to know if we had been listening.
When we came the following week we came early but the repeater came before us, two of them came and sat on my seat so I had to go to the back seat. When we came back I had to get ready for our first lesson. Then we had to introduce ourselves. I found out that I was the youngest in my class and school. Our teacher gave us homework. Most of the students in our class did not do their homework. There were about eight people who did their homework out of forty nine so that meant that thirty nine of the class did not do the homework. I was one of the eight people who did the homework. I met a new friend who came the following day from Uganda her name is Anita Luru. My neighbour pulled her to our desk. We sit two on each desk some sit alone and some sit in three’s, we sat three on our desk. Later on that day another girl came to our class. Our class teacher told us that we were going to have to blind students. My school has place’s for blind students. The blind students stay in the boarding house.
I started going to scripture union. I go on Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s. I do not go to scripture union on Tuesday and Friday because we do not hold scripture union on those days. One day they were voting for new leaders. I was made one of the leader’s. We had our first meeting on Friday we were supposed to make a timetable on Friday when we did not have scripture union but it did not work out. When we walk home we have to take a bus home. I started walking by myself when I started playing tennis.
This story was written by Moyin Oloruntoba (12 years old). She lives in Maseru, Kingdom of Lesotho, with her parents. Moyin is dressed in red and seating on the left in the top picture. Modupe, her sister, is on the right. Click the thumbnail to see the larger picture.
