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Best-love-ever How I schooled my Children!

Before I continue with the father and son conversation which was more of a lecture that I had with my two sons, I would like to take you on a journey way back when I was a teen.

For those of you who might read this and don't know much about Guyana, let me say it is about 83,000 square miles. And majority of the populace live along the coastal land which is under sea level. A map of Guyana from the web will greatly help in understanding what I am about to say.

One of the most unfortunate thing in life for a kid is when his or her parents divorce. My parents were no exception to such an ugly experience. Due to their instability of marriage we had to be moving constantly. As far as I could remember as a kid we moved from Leguan a large island at the mouth of the Essequibo river to Bartica a Town about 28 miles further down river on the West bank of the Essiquibo mainland. Next we then moved to Vergonoegen a small village on the East Bank in the county of Essequibo. Not long after that as I remember, whilst my mother went to Georgetown to live and work, we moved to Meten Meer Zorg another village further east where we stayed with my grandmother. To avoid giving location description and to summarise quickly here are some of the other villages we moved to whilst I was still a small child: Newtown-Kitty,Campbellville, Cummings Lodge, Industry Front, Ogle Front, Industry Back Dam and finally to Cummings Lodge again where we are to this day.

In all this moving from one place to the next I lost 2 (two) whole years of schooling. For a young child to be forced not to attend school for nearly two years is very unfortunate. But that did not deter me from learning. At 8 (eight) years old if I remember correctly I could read the newspaper almost fluently. My cousins who were older than me could not do this and their mother whipped them terrible for them to learn.

Anyway as a result of missing school so often I did not get a chance to write common entrance an exam that would determine which High school you attend in Guyana. Nevertheless through perseverance I got into Cummings Lodge Secondary School through another exam called SSPE.

What was High Schoool like in my days? I will tell you in my next blog.