The service ended in no distant time but as usual mum and dad had series of people waiting to see them after service and so my siblings and I just waited within the church premises. It was while we waited that I met jerry. Jerry is Evangelist Solomon’s son but he was two years older than myself and he was already in secondary school while I was yet to write my common entrance examination for my supposed school of choice the next day. Jerry made my day with all his gist about the boarding school and immediately I fell in love with the boarding school. I made up my mind to attend a boarding school. But how was I supposed to bring my parents to agree to this seeing the current situation in our home? It was either boarding school or nothing, my mind was made up and that was final. Two-hours later my parents and Jerry’s parents were ready to leave for home, I bade Jerry good-bye from the car’s window as daddy drove away. As we sat on the dining table to eat, mum and dad kept stealing glances at each other and I knew better than interrupting that quiet moment. Suddenly, daddy coughed and said he had something to tell us. I immediately stopped eating as I’ve been waiting for this moment.
“It is a good thing to serve in the lord’s vineyard. Several weeks back, your mum and I came back home separately with burdens too heavy for us to utter. We are sorry for keeping you all in the dark but as it stands now, we have decided that we tell you the situation of things. The lord is sending us into full-time ministry and by this I mean that we are both resigning from our jobs to face the ministry squarely in another state and that means we are leaving this house. It’s a good thing that Zina will be writing her common-entrance examination tomorrow, so it would be easier for us to get her admitted in a new school. Casimir and Sarah will also get to change their schools respectively. We urge you to please bear with us and understand that this is beyond our control” Before daddy could end his speech, Casimir and Sarah were already in tears. All efforts to get them together proved futile. Their major concern were their friends set of friends. at school and church respectively. I didn’t cry not because I liked the situation at hand but because I had plans of leaving for the boarding school. So why my parents and siblings were in their new station, I would be in the boarding school with new I presented my matter before my parents; I told them about going to the boarding school and without wasting time, they agreed and plans to write another entrance examination was put into place. My siblings wore a long face throughout the night while I fantasized about my life in the boarding school. I couldn’t wait to experience all that Jerry said to me while we were in church, I painted pictures of how I was going to behave in the boarding school, I was still lost in my world of fantasy when I slept off. Morning came so quickly and I dressed up for my entrance examination.
Do I really have to write this examination reason being that I would be going to a boarding school”? “Zina, do not put all your eggs in one basket. What if you don’t pass the boarding school’s entrance examination”? “But mum you’ve always taught us to be optimistic about life, why then…….”? “Zina will you keep quiet and get into the car”? I grudgingly walked into the car and mum drove us to school. She dropped my siblings off and we headed for the entrance venue. I said nothing to her as she drove and she said nothing to me either. We got to MAY INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF SCHOOLS and before we alighted, mum held my hands and prayed for me. She led me to the class for my exam while she waited outside the school’s premises for me. The examination was quite simple as I finished thirty minutes before time. As I sat back to cross-check my work, I looked beside me and saw a girl in tears, she explained that she didn’t know what to write and that she needed my help. Mum had always talked to us about examination malpractice of any kind in fact she mentioned it while she was praying for me this morning. I didn’t want to sin against God by indulging in examination malpractice but the tears of this girl moved me and I remembered that mum has always taught us to be good to people and so I decided to help her. I opened my work for her to copy and in no distant time, she was done. I quickly went to our invigilator and submitted my script and right in my very before my script was torn in shreds. The invigilator accused me of examination malpractice, all efforts to explain myself failed as he gave me a fresh script.
As I sat down to start afresh, I was already psychologically weak, I tried my best to scribble some things on my script but in no distant time the bell was rung. My script was collected from me and I broke down in tears. What was I supposed to tell mum? I made up my mind I wasn’t going to disclose what had happened to anybody not even mum. I wiped my tears and headed for the gate. “Zina, how was your exams?” “It was fine mum, God be praised” “I hope you didn’t indulge in examination malpractice?” At the mention of that word, my heart skipped a beat and I coughed as though I was choking, she quickly got me water and we got into the car. Several weeks after, the boarding school’s entrance examination was fixed and I vowed to give my best. The experience at MAY INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF SCHOOLS came knocking and I dismissed it with a song of praise. As usual, mum drove me again to the venue of my entrance examination. I got into the class and sat down quietly not talking to any friend or foe, I gave my shots and in two-hour’s time I was out of the hall. This particular exam was not as easy as the first entrance examination and so right from the hall I was scared for myself already, reason being that the result of the first entrance examination had come a day before and I scored 50 out of 400. I couldn’t bring myself to explain to my parents what transpired in the examination hall and so I just kept my cool and prayed to God to help my dreams of going to a boarding school come to pass.
Did my dreams come to pass???
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