HIGH SCHOOL

Armed Force Senior High School was the high school I attended. It is a foreign high school and is identified by it name. Everything there is meant to be a force. My first year was terrible experience. The country high school system is such that we reside on campus. Once on campus, senior year students dictate the life of freshmen. They own freshmen when class hours are over and the weekend.They have control over when the freshmen sleeps, eats and even taking shower. In actual sense, the school was full of maltreatment to the extent of laying hands, using canes and belts on us. I was beaten, had sleepless night and denied food some of the times. Even soldiers on the base where the school was located could put their hand on any of us. Mostly,the only thought on my mind was how to survive that game in the school. I had to play the  "Cat and Mouse tactics"  to survive because I never had a choice. 

The teaching stuff was very admirable. Most of the teacher I happen to meet were the best, they took care of students. They guided me, gave options for several opportunities, showed there was a potential in me. They inflected corporal punishments for not doing assignment, not coming to class and for being late. The beatings were never a problem to me because that thought me discipline. As a science student  they nurtured me to be among the best, like they would do for their kids and that made me learn how to be independent. That was the time I experienced for myself all the misconceptions that has been made about them were not true.

I met different categories of  people from across the country, some had the same ambition like me and others had the mind set to bring students down either through physical or spiritual means. The Headmaster was a Major in the Army and he was the most headstrong person I have encountered in  my life. He is the kind who will punch, kick or even shot if anyone come his way. Students life were at risk before him. He beats with sticks, tree branches, throw tables and chairs at students and fight teachers some of the time. At one time he run after me to beat me and I had to escape over the school fence .I never had the opportunity to participate in any extra-curricular activities such as the inter school games because the school operate differently from others and will not part take.

In every bad situation there are good within, so I picked the good and embraced all the hardship. Finally, I made it to graduation with success.