My First Visit to St. Ben's - 2015

(First of all, this post will probably bore you since nothing much happens)

Today, the 1st of April 2015, was my first visit to St. Ben's, my old primary and intermediate school. St. Pat's had a Progress Conference, which is a meeting with your parents and Tutor Teacher, so school was cancelled for the day. After my meeting, my parents and I had lunch at some Chinese restaurant in the city. My mum and I then dropped of my dad at work and drove straight to St. Ben's in Khandallah.

As I got out of the car, I remembered my days at St. Ben's and how it felt to walk up the steep hill to school. I realized I just missed dodge ball (which was the main reason the Year 9's were coming to St. Ben's) as I saw two familiar red balls rolling down the drive way. I picked them up and threw them out onto the courts for the P.E. Monitors to collect.

I got to the main office and met Coralie and Emma, the school secretaries. I greeted them and they asked me how I was at college and when did I get glasses. After, I walked up the same old inside stairs. I heard the laughter of the intermediate kids in the classrooms, I walked in to see Anthony, James, JMK, and Bernard crowded around the computers with Thomas. The Year 8's said hello and carried on with their Mission Fair planning. It was 10 minutes 'till lunch, so the Year 9's and I decided to walk to Khandallah village for lunch, as there was no tuck shop (mini cafeteria) to buy from.

We were walking down Ganges St. and I remembered the times my brother, my friends, and I walking down this very street. We joked and talked about what we would do for the rest of the day. We went to New World first because Anthony wanted to get the cheap 'Pringles', and as we browsed the shelves, an elderly couple stared at us. They probably thought we were 'rebels' ditching school.

We started strolling down the shops, and JMK said he would buy chips. But then we had to stop to have a debate on which Fish and Chips store to buy from since there were two of them. We stood their arguing for 5 minutes when JMK finally said he would just buy at the 'Golden Takeaways' which were 20 cents more expensive and had less chips. But JMK claimed that they tasted better. So while JMK headed over to the store, the rest of us went to the dairy. Anthony bought two sodas and a mini pizza jelly thing which we shared. Once we were back together, we went to the 'Filipino Mafia Head Quarters, AKA 'the playground by the library'. When we were finished eating, we started our walk back to school. We met Sam A. and Jacob (A friend from college) and decided to walk together.

Finally we arrived back to school. It was lunch so we decided to play cricket and basketball. Paolo and I walked around the school first, checking if anything had changed. Before we knew it, the bell had rang, and our Year 9 group went back to class 'like good boys'. \

Now this brings us to the fact that I am writing this while Miss F. Bolger is doing Teacher Reading. Ok, I am going to stop now. Bye.

Note to Year 8's: Enjoy your finally days in intermediate, because once you are in college you will be doing 'holiday homework'!!! JMK and I have to write a 6 page essay on Archimedes, Aristotle, Euclid, and Pythagoras, and what they contributed to modern mathematics. Then we have to write two book reports for English.