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Teens share first day experience at school

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AFTER the long relaxing festive holidays, January means return to school with some starting a new life at new schools as well.

AFTER the long relaxing festive holidays, January means return to school with some starting a new life at new schools as well.

Report by Winstone Antonio

The month of January being the first month of a year is usually characterised with a new leaf among students as from Grade Zero, Grade One, Lower six and college life.

There is no evading the fact that the first day at school can be crazy as some children feel nervous or scared of new things, new teachers and meeting new people.

At such a day, it is obvious that several children would feel sad or upset worrying about going to a new school.

With reports of bullies in school, students are worried that they mighty be latest victims.

However, there is no need to worry very much since these “new” worries will only twig around usually for the first week and come the following week it will be history.

As schools opened on Tuesday, NewsDay Teens during the course of the week had some interviews with pupils so as to find out their experience on on their first days at their respective schools. Below are some of the excerpts of the interviews:

“My first day was not that scary as we were introduced to our teachers, staff members and schoolmates. Teachers introduced us to their respective subject areas that  they will be taking us throughout the year. Everything was just new as we had expected,” said Melody Chitiyo a Form One student from Dzivaresekwa High 1. Pardon Mlambo a Lower Six pupil at Prince Edward School had this to share: “I had never been to a boarding school before. I used to read and hear stories of bullying among new students especialy at a boarding school.

“However, to me it was totally the opposite as the environment was so friendly. I managed to make new friends.”

However, Pardon’s case was a different story from Blessing Moyo from a local former Group A school who claimed to have had a taste of reality as someone at a boarding school for his first time.

“My first day of high school was probably the worst day of my life as I was given what I could term a ‘harsh’ welcome to a boarding school. It was the prefects who had to search my bags looking for items like mobile phones which the college deemed unsuitable in the school campus. As someone who had been forewarned, I had no such items and had easy passage,” said Pardon.

“As this was not enough, l some seniors who came and tossed me around. This did not go down well my roommate, but there was nothing he could do.” he narrated.

Sibongile Nkalakata from a local girls’ high school said she had a nice day though her joy at the school was  spoiled  during supper time.

“The food did not taste good as I had expected. The vegetables were not nicely cut.  The  sadza was  lumpy and I feared that I could have a running tummy after eating.

“It was just not appetising, but funny enough I had to eat as I had no option,” she said.