Guest post: ADELAIDE 2

BY Tolu Akinsola

I opened my eyes to darkness, I felt uncomfortable. Something was not right. I was on my bed alright, but I didn’t feel like it. I searched for a torch (at least, that was what I could easily reach for as NEPA had done it again).

Voilà! I got one and flipped it on. I knew it! I was still in my yesterday’s clothes. Then, I remembered I had slumped (gratefully into my bed). And none of my sisters was there. Very Mean Things.

Anyway, I was alive and it was exhaustion that did that to me. I looked at my window. Light flooded into the house. Was it daybreak? I glanced at my wall clock (with my torch, of course).

Jeez! Six o’clock am! OMG! I was to be at the Island by eight o’ clock am. And I was still lazing on my bed.

Standing till Infinity

After writing ‘I will always stand at attention when the National Anthem is on’ 200 times, I moved over to the staff room where Mrs. Ndumele- the Agric. Sci. teacher sat gracefully on her sit. Earlier in the day, she had given me 8 solid strokes of the cane ‘cos I was biting my nails when the Anthem was on. You need to have seen me after that incidence; whenever I hear ‘stand right for the National Anthem’, the speed I use in complying with the command can never be measured…….

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