A new chapter for first year students
MY first day at secondary school left my stomach in knots. The enormous red-brick building in the heart of the city was about five times the size of the small rural primary school I had attended, while its long-echoing corridors were crammed with students who all seemed to be about twice the size of me.
Everyone else seemed to know where they were supposed to go and what they were supposed to do — but none of it bore any relation to life at the little seaside primary school I had left the previous June.
