Turning Point
Going to boarding high schools helped my brothers a lot. They realized other people bathed every day and washed their clothes after wearing a few times, sometimes only…
She Inspires Me
Jirada dressed us in shoes in our childhood, sold us shoes as we reported to High School, continued selling shoes as we went to college, started working and…
High School: Initial Shock
I had no idea how bad our English was until I traveled two hundred kilometers to my ‘home’ of the next six years – a high school deep…
How Do You Compete?
A student from this environment in OlKalou was now put in the same classroom with a student from a prestigious well equipped primary school, where their only focus…
Visiting Days and Half Terms
I drew comparisons for you earlier on how my urban classmates were visited by their sophisticated parents at high school and how my mother from OlKalou would compare.…
Facing Our “IMF” Father
When reporting to school, we all lined up in front of our parents, school fees structure paper in hand. Each of us received our exact amount of school…