It was already October a month before the exams, all my friends were freaking out but so was I, I mean who wouldn't be? The next step, the bridge to senior high School, the gateway to paradise was just a few weeks away it would be amazing or so I thought.
At the moment my sleep schedule changed and the time I spent with Christine gradually reduced day by day and week by week, normally I would sleep for atleast 8hours and at most 10hours of sleep, I treasured my sleep and my peace. It was the only thing keeping me sane apart from Christine herself but lets get to the start and end of these exams because Christine and I got into a situatioship just a while after the exams but that's for the next chapter.
"Damn, how on earth am I supposed to cover two years of learning within an hour? Is the examination council on drugs? No no no this has to be some kind of misunderstanding" I said to myself
The final timetable was out and I was staring it right in the face, it looked as intimidating as ever, black ink on white paper which gave off the smell of the "Mukwa tree" the source of this paper, double inhanced for the smoothest writing, edge on edge texture design not to mention the colour sensitive paper, it could practically be used to write in the dark, whatever it was it was definitely a sign of war from the council. Not many think so but I for one took it as such. Whatever drugs the examination council was on, well they sure were strong and they worked as such.
As the count down to 7th November,2019 reared closer, so did my panicking increase.
"Damn it, damn it! What don't I know? Is what I know enough to get me through this hell, why is this country's schooling system like this?" I thought to myself
Just then one of the teachers came into the class because it was during a geography lesson but Mrs Jolezya wasn't around.
*Books flipping*
Random teacher: Boys are you ready for the exams
The class: mm sir, we will be soon enough.
"what's this man going on about? The fate of our futures depends on this exam, it's literally engraved on seven fucking pages, you fail your family will send you off to the village, failure will lead to lack of employment, lack of employment will lead to hunger, hunger will lead to being skinny and ugly, being skinny and ugly will lead to not having a partner which will then turn into depression and finally something inevitable "Death" so alot is riding on this shit". I thought to myself
I constantly reminded myself of Everything I want, what I must do to have it and how much I will endure, it became a morale booster everyday a new William closer to perfection than ever before, but inevitably things will never go the way you want them to be, it's always the hardships, that's what will separate a man from a boy "endurance" how much was I ready to take? With life, with Christine and with people? Let's find out shall we? But first let's conclude October.
The month was pretty boring, nothing but unimaginable studying and sleeping while I tried to do my best, and as for the girl that stole my heart I would only see her twice a week for two hours each day which means I only saw her 8 times that month, well we had more important things to do.
~Friday, 25th October, 2019
The last Friday of October the last time we ever had a discussion with my classmates, we didn't learn anything that day and Mr. Mwiinga wasn't even in the picture because he was on leave, we had a little bit of zeal and courage to talk as much and as loud as we possibly could. After class ended having not learnt a single shred of new information from any teacher, we departed to enjoy some leisure time and play soccer at the public soccer field in the Arakan barracks, we did this for close to two hours, afterwards we wished eachother the very best and that no matter what came we would be well prepared, and for those of us that learnt french it was only more of a guarantee because we nailed the oral practical and all we had left to do is screw the theory and we were home free, a smile on a shimmering face faded in the sunset as the day come to a close we see the author resting as the sun sets on a universe ready to be conquered by a single man that man was still a boy who had alot of self discovery to go through and still is going through.
"Williamalways follow your heart, never stop always go for glory"
The voices in my head aren't all bad there's one which is my favourite, the voice of my heart it never leads me astray never has and probably never will.
~Sunday, 6th November,2019.
"I know what I must do" I said to myself.
My family members that always shout at me for spending too much time on the screen suddenly stopped talking about it anymore, as if implying that I had to make a decision on my own, to see what was right and what was wrong. I turned off the Television and headed straight to my room I looked at the time table and saw my soon to be future. I knew what was coming my way hence I prepared myself mentally and physically after going through some exam tips I felt I was ready all I had to do now was stay clam and Everything would eventually work out.
"I wonder how Christine is doing? Hope she is preparing herself the same way, but then again that girl is super smart, she is practically a walking piece of perfection; beauty, elegance, charm, intellect and most importantly she is clean, all the qualities of a Goddess. She was hand crafted by the Messiah himself all so to perfection" I thought to myself
The same way chocolate is crafted to perfection it's very edible very enjoyable but too much of it will surely cause you problems Christine was my slab of chocolate.
~7th November, 2019
*English language 8:00hours*
The school Hall was so quiet all you could hear was the sound of the clock as you race against time to fill up the answer sheet with all the knowledge you learnt in the past two years.
Invigilator: 10 more minutes to go....