My first day at secondary school

'Yarona' Bus Service dropped us by the gate of the boarding master's residence, a stones throw from the dormitories in January 1979. Coming from the rural village of Rakops, then with predominantly grass-thatched mud huts, I was amazed to see the red-bricked dormitories though they were also grass-thatched. I had never seen so many grass-thatched huts done in red-bricks, especially in one place, let alone forming circles. Back in Rakops, even if they were inside one compound, the huts were not placed in circles.

They were not red either, but greyish, the colour of the earth in the village.