SCHOOL DAZE
SCHOOL DAZE Harry Bissoon 8/16/23 The morning walk to primary school, in the warmth and glow of the early morning rising sun, was the beginning of new adventures, still unknown, as another day dawned upon us. Youthful energy, and sometimes uncontrollable abandonment, with cares and cocerns about our world left to our parents, we relished in attitudes that played havoc with our still young, developing minds. Friends gravitated along the route to school, excited, and bantering profusely, after a restful night, about a multitude of things - homework, housework, old higue, posters in front of the village cinema, and mental arithmetic. Mental arithmetic was the bane of many students. It was the first subject in class, after going through the rigors of lining up, as if we were soldiers preparing for battle. Then came the morning ritual of prayers before the onset of the dreaded mathematical, airborne calculations, as fingers flicked and folded, eyes rolled and heads tilted, ...