First Formers Get Down!

I wish I could relieve my first teenage year over again. Well selectively ofcourse. There are some situations I would not want to relive again like the week I spent in hospital after being hit by a car. But everything else was more like a minute glimpse of heaven. Like the night of the interact sponsored prom, the month long hockey tournament and all the public speaking sessions at our Brother school- St.Georges. During my first year as a teeny I had fun, I went wild, I attended parties, I went for summer camps, I traveled. To sum it all up I lived.

The release of Pink’s album could not have come at a more opportune time. My streamates and I went crazy about this song. I would say approximately 90 percent of the first formers knew the lyrics to this song. I was always early for school- I arrived atleast 30 minutes before registration each day. Every morning my classmates and I would snatch the cd play from the teachers cupboard meant for our French lessons, and dance to Pink’s ‘There You Go’ hit. For the greater part of the first term this song got us going, gone were the days I would have butterflies every school morning day.

At one time, we got so caught up in the song. The volume was loud, the tiles were literally shaking and just then the headmistress walked in. She was horrified worse than Macbeth on seeing the ghost of Banquo. She demanded an explanation for the 'rowdy' bahaviour. All forty of us just starred at each other, in a look that meant we all knew what was coming. That Friday, I did not arrive home early as usual in time for my afternoon nap. I was plucking chickens for the nuns instead as a form of punishment together with forty other girls.