I ATE SAUSAGES AND BAKED BEANS FOR BREAKFAST IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

I remember promising on ms mbegks blog that i would write a little bit about "wanna be" naija ajebo schools.

So fortunately or unfortunately, i plus my whole family where one of the first people to attend this school British international school VI(BIS). Actually funny enough my siblings and i appeared on that very big billboard on the lekki round about just before you get into lekki phase one..if you are familiar with Lagos..or at least the island you should know what i am talking about, this was like a while ago though, (plus i looked really ugly, they didn't even ask for permission....not to talk about our pictures being on the notebooks for the school)....plus parents started complaining that they where using our faces on everything that had to do with the school, so they decided to change it.

Anywayz fortunately for my sis and i we both attended other schools that where suffer suffer..so we where groomed properly before we got into BIS. (the reason why i have to explain this is so that after i write what this school was all about you would not think "oh she is one spoilt brat" cause i am not, thank you very much..lol..movin on...

BIS...lol...funny school....

1. we where not allowed to iron (in fact it was an abomination..you could be suspended)


2. We had people who washed, and dry cleaned our school uniform, plus anything we wanted them to dry clean..Yes! not excluding underwear..lol...after they where done, they would neatly fold everything for us.


3. There was nothing like seniors and juniors, the school board wanted students "to feel at home"..like a family..they said..


4. You would get a lot of rude kids, and there is nothing you can do..(how annoying)


5. Oh yes the food...it was lovely..lol.....rice krispies in the morning..sausage, frosties, eggs, bread(toasted if you wanted), orange juice, croissant, baked beans..lol..we would have snacks...glazed donuts, crackers with cheese, lunch, macaroni and cheese, mashed potato with chicken, fish, chips, burgers, i mean name it we had it...dinner...just think of anything..lol..it was there...plus we could ask for more if we wanted..lol


6. during the weekends we where allowed to go out....we would go to "chocolate royale"(for those who do not know what it is..its this lovely ice cream, place...that has not just ice cream..different stuff sha)..sometimes there would be parties outside school, and the boarders where allowed to go, sometimes go to restaurants..etc


7. I remember some a level student where allowed to go outside of the school to have a smoke with the teachers


8. Teachers where mostly white..(british)...and the few Nigerian teachers then where not treated right


9. the white students and black students would stay in their corners during the break time..a bit racist


10. girls could do pretty much anything to their hair


11. teachers would know who you are dating, and wouldn't care..


12. you could be talking to a teacher and be like shut up(joke o..not seriously)..like "o shut up"...lol


13. ermmm what else...of course no flogging of any kind was allowed, the highest punishment was a detention with the principal. basically you go and relax in the principals ac office...(very relaxing actually..i think i had to do that once)..lol


14. students where pretty much close to some teachers..like really close..wink*...lol..i even hung out with my math teacher on a holiday in scotland..lol...it wasn't fun...lol


15. oh yes!..we had people clean our dorms....lay our beds..and alladat..


16. there was Dstv...so we could watch any time..excluding during lights out, and we usually would borrow movies during the weekend


17. we didn't wear school uniform after school


18. there was hot water everyday to take a bath with...no fetching of water..etc


19. students had to protest to get some Nigerian food on the menu..imagine..


20. some people like my sister got single rooms


21. We had two people in a room, and the rooms where quite big too.


22. We went grocery shopping at "stop and shop" during the weekend...and during the weekends if you wanted to watch a movie we could go to silver bird..which was the only cinema in lag at the time...


23. we could go home during the weekends if you wanted to.


24. we didn't have to take jam, ssce, waek, jsce...and all that...we just took one exam in our last year which was IGCSE. this would just get you into an A level school anywhere.


25. ofcourse there we had 5years instead of six


26. we paid so much..i wont even say how much...and the teachers thought we where not paying enough..mind you these teachers had their own luxury suits o..lol..drivers, chef, people to clean their homes, and yet..(hiss). The few Naija teachers got nothing like this o.

That is it o. You guys must be like....waat!!...trust me it wasn't that golden, and to be honest i would never take my children to such. I think American international (AIS)school was worse. Go and see how the students there act..talk about being spoilt..BIS was even good self. (no offence to AIS)....xxx

ajebo kisses..lol

mwah!!