It’s FRIDAY. Finally I won’t be seeing my principal’s face for the whole 2 days. No wait… Saturdays are reserved for ICT classes that I am taking for free at school. Means no break for the whole week. Speaking about the principal, he managed to pull his pot belly up the stairs to address the school. Basically the grade 12s most of the time.

“Good morning girls,” “Good morning sir” we replied uninterested. “We have recieved a letter from the Department of Education and Learner’s Health, stating that a substance abuse test should be taken on each and every girl before they recieve their report cards.” “WHAT?” The girls groan at what has just been said and the assembly becomes filled with noise of amazement ( some of the noise tells me some are scared as they have been smoking hooker pipes eversince they entered high school.)

I turn to face my grade 12 sisters, Sihle, Snabo, Slindile, Anele, Noluthando, Yethu and Nomsa. Actually I’m only related to Sihle as cousins and the rest are her friends. Since I don’t have an elder sister, which I always wished to have, I decided to call them all my sisters. Instead of one, I got 7. They treat me like the last born of the family. “And I did not ask for your opinion girls. Stop making noise. AND grade 12s your attendance is low so let’s meet in the tennis court immediately after the assembly. Have a good day and march to your classes.” This dude always causes a storm when he appears to the assembly but something was funny, to some learners. The assembly co-ordinator’s sneakers look like filled-with-air balloons.

And well, our morning starts with a period for Life Sciences. The LS teacher is one of a kind. She may be old but can preserve her self, not looking down at herself, always looking nice and neat.SHE EVEN WEARS HEELS AND CAN CLIMB THE STAIRS WITH THEM! I failed doing that many times. We are on a topic of Mitosis. I swear she would have made the best doctor, cause shit… she’s great.

The period ends and I can see the class is not willing to leave this class any sooner, especially me. Cause the next period is Life Orientation. I know that the moment I enter Ms Rabothata’s class, she will make me sit on her chair, give me her Apple laptop, making me type all her pending ICT documents on one of the Microsoft Apps.

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