ST FRIENDSTHONY

when I made that change to saint Anthony, it was like the world was coming to a close, I laid on my bed and cried for hours, I cried because I was going to miss my friends which I kind of thought I wasn't going to see again, and also because I was going to be the new kid in a school I never thought was going to be fun.

Sayo and myself

My entrance into saint Anthony was nothing special, after the normal procedure I was taken to a class, the class was so noisy that i wondered if I was the cause, I felt like the whole class was staring at me, so I just put my head on my locker. After sometime I became bored of the hide and seek and sat up. I then made my first friend kunle. He was a brilliant chap, and a very skillful footballer, he later became the senior prefect. I lent his notes home to write and he helped me with some. I met Micheal through kunle and loved his company, he was a very funny guy.

I was beginning to fit into the whole system, and could vividly remember how teachers made sure I was using my glasses always, thanks to my mum. The school became my second home as I was always thinking of school whenever I was at home

JSS 3 was running out fast and we were to split into three arms, science, commercial and arts.i was destined for arts while kunle was going to science and micheal was leaving to the school i came from. however I made other friends, talk about Quadri gentle boy turned naughty, omo baba Ajani, Tope the drummer boy, Tope c.ronaldo, Jibola and Sayo the best comedians in school, Tunde the bully,Yinka and Lamide the computer gurus, Tobi the tomboy, Tiwalade, michellin,Emmanuel, Bimbo, Adura, Tomi, Dotun,Triumph, Abigeal, Akande, Samson ,Awolola,  Isiaka, Osundiya,Bimbo Hannah, Mariam  and introducing Ife Jubee my best friend.

By SS1 I had forgotten I didn't start with this people as I was also welcoming new students. Veronica, Kolade, Taiye and Kehinde(dangerous twins) and Doyin came along. School became more interesting by the day. I rejoined with some of my friends in art class, it was painful that some left martins, akin, Abayomi,  Micheal and a host of others.

By SS2 I had already built a world around my friends that I couldn’t imagine not seeing them. Friday was my least favourite day in school because I won’t see my peeps over the weekend. The journey continued and academically we were all doing fine. In art class we were somehow lazy always hoping and praying our teacher will forget he/she has a class. at any slightest opportunity its either we are arguing, making gest of a particular student or singing(my favourite). 70% of my classmates could sing especially when Jubee, Tobi, Bola, Daniel are involved.

Olamide and Bimbo

Prefects were chosen, and it was painful that everybody couldn’t be one. I was social prefect and olamide was social prefect female. I believe we did great stuff together. Can remember how we planned saint anthony’s day and our anniversary, we organized a beauty pageant only for someone to switch off the generator during the programme (mscheew. My only regret as a prefect). We did other stuffs like winning the march-past at ilegrams during independence day celebration. Our inter house sport would have put the icing on the cake but was disrupted by rain. Also remember leading my team(blue house) to the inter house football competition only to be stretched out of the field injured. I’m sure my absence cost us that game (lol). I was also part of the group that represented the school at a singing competition at oscco which we came first. We staged a drama titled Dr Faustus, I was a minor character just a scene and also the director, Kolade was the star of the drama. Directing the drama was hell for me, but it was worth it. Also, we did justice to hamlet to in terms of acting, i was the wicked king and my wife Getrude was Lamide.

me

By SS3 it started dawning that very soon we’ll be departing, it was a very emotional stage for me. At that time the whole class was like 5&6. We were already making preparations for our valedictory. NECO was the only business that linked us with school then so we just come and leave after our papers.

After our exams, some left and couldn’t make it for our VS. Before our VS we went on a picnic to erin- jesha water falls. Our dinner was tight, I was called out to come and dance with Lamide by the mc Mr. fatoke, but was kind of too shy to dance(always shy to dance or can’t dance). The valedictory service was fun, out of the 3 awards I took the one i cherished was most compatible male friends with Jubee.

I cried out my eyes that day, my cry was different from that I shed when I left oscco, or when I was beaten by Prince, Pastor, it was a cry for my friends I wish I didn’t have to miss this much. My biography is useless without you guys and I can never forget our experience together.

I MISS YOU ALL….…......