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...to be continued.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME 1.
P.S: The picture was taken when I was in Primary 4 (2007/2008). If you can't identify me in this picture, just know that, you need glasses. 😂
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In 2008, I was a Primary 5 pupil but it was certain that I would join our Primary 6 pupils to write the Common Entrance Examination into Secondary School.
...to be continued, in the comment section.
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For all I remember, I don't know how I got into a bus after writing the exam. I think someone helped me.
But you see, when it was time to get down at my bus stop. It was war.
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Did I finally get down at my bus stop or, I was taken to the last bus stop in the town?
I'd never entered a bus alone. I couldn't speak in public - I'd never done that before. How then do I stop when I get to my bus stop? My change was to be #20, but how would I collect it?
Also, I couldn't speak Igbo either, so how would I even communicate with the conductor?
Our area wasn't developed - a town beside Onitsha. Transportation was either by 𝑂́𝑏𝑒́𝑙𝑒́ 𝑒́𝑔𝑜́ bus of 30 seaters, or the new 16 seaters bus. My usual route before was, a trek to my primary sch, which was beside our house and then, the church, which I went with my parents.
Meanwhile, my mom has given me fifty naira to take bus home after I was through. I think there was a situation at home that made no one accompany me.
I was just 8 years old - shy and nervous.
I can't remember the day, but sometime in 2009, I sat for the entrance examination into FGGCO, Staff School.
While writing, a man called my name. HE said, my father has asked him to check on me.
Luckily, we heard there was a STAFF school for Js1-3. So the plan was, I'd write the entrance examination into Federal Government Girls' College, Staff School, Onitsha, which was a Day school and after JS3, I'd write the entrance examination into the main Federal College for SS1.
Unity Colleges became the first option. The closest to home was, Federal Government Girls' College, Onitsha (FGGCO).
Unfortunately, in 2006, the Former president Olusegun Obasanjo scrapped the Junior section of Unity colleges.
Hence, I couldn't get into Federal in JSS1.
Daddy had been an Orphan since his early days in JSS1, while Mummy - a Chemical Engineer, was privilege to attend a Grammar College as a boarding student.
You know what they say about Grammar Colleges of the 1980s?
They were good schools.
With no involvement in Examination Malpractice, it means that, the education quality of the choosen school, must be top-notch.
Not like, they were rich anyways.
It wasn't compulsory to skip primary 5, even if you came first, but my parents consented and I'm glad they did.
Immediately, parents began the search for a suitable secondary school I would attend. A School with zero Examination malpractice tolerance, was their top priority.
In my school, it was a yearly practice that, pupils who came first three in Primary 5 (considering their consistency in Primary 4) were eligible to join Primary 6 pupils write Common Entrance Examination into Secondary School.
Then, I always came 2nd.