Old School

We then walked to my primary school just to reminise, another Catholic all boys school complete with strict headmasters, an "enforcer" teacher, a loud mouthed care taker, a PE teacher who doesn't mind kicking your ass when you screw up, prefects, assistant prefects, school uniforms, prayers, school choirs (I was an alto), and recess time soccer.


so we decided to stop and take a photo of this, as I drew this scene on one of the hand made mother's day cards when I was little.

Down the stairs is the main student entrance and playground, the gates are locked during recess, obsessive parents/grandparents would reach through the gates to feed/comfort/smack/wipe sweat off the children.
During PE or recess time, we routinely kick soccerballs into the waterworks plant over the fence, but they have now built a park there instead.

It is also hilarious to see during the recess 1000 desparate kids trying to go to the same washroom, the lineups are long, pushing and shoving can lead to a domino effect: where kids are on the floor on top of each other crying out because they just lost "containment", the kids standing next to the trough peeing just stepped into it, mass chaos and suffering. I have experienced 2 such cataclysms myself.

Ah, fond memories.