BACK TO SCHOOL...

I was scheduled to be at Queens College Yaba Lagos at 9am but arrived at about 7.30am. I did make a few stops due to protocol before heading to the ICT laboratory. I was not quite expecting to meet anyone at that time and so I was not disappointed. Sitting at the entrance to the boarding house area and watching the girls ‘cross over’ with staff and school prefects hurrying them to the assembly ground was not new to me at all. A lot had changed new and renovated buildings but still very familiar faces right from the guard at the gate to the attendant at the School Principal’s office.

About 11 years ago, I cried while hugging my big sister so tight and telling her she was going nowhere unless she took me home and made me a day student. ‘’I do not like boarding house” I said “... and I am missing home. “They do not feed us well and one senior punished me yesterday”, “The water is bad and that’s why I am losing my voice” .The list of excuses went on and on. At the beginning of a term I would feel nauseated as soon as the car took the left turn into Queen’s street. Four years later my heart pounded in my head as I was called up on the assembly ground as one of the school prefects. Just before I was assigned a responsibility I held a video camera in my small hands and then became the first student to do a video coverage at a major event as the Christmas Carol Service at Queens College.

School was the place to be with clubs and Societies, inter-house sports, calisthenics, matrons, housemistresses, dorm mates, classmates, dining hall, portion work, dorm work, prep-time, lights out, slabs and even contraband (Special suya and bread. lol). I did not miss out but just could not wait to get out.  I was quick to sign any forms and books that would accelerate my exit after my final examinations.

February 14, 2011 would be exactly one week since I have been working with Queen’s college students on the Junior Multimedia School Project as an intern at the Unites CISCO networking academy. 

The students are involved in making multimedia products; short films,posters,newsletters. The girls are currently working towards a short film festival.