First official day of high school part 1

Ren hurriedly left for work after dropping off Shin at home. Shin, while at home, tried on the uniforms given to him once more to get the feel for it and which he also showed his mother, Ruth Jadh. She looked at Shin wearing the uniform with a slight bit of excitement in her eyes which Shin noticed but didn't say a thing ... His mother then decided to wash the new uniforms first which made Shin wonder why but not ask.

Shin, after this went on to use his old pentium 4 computer with a white 14" CRT monitor which his father had gotten him a few years back from the company he was working. Shin had taken a liking to computers at a very young age. He had seen and learnt to use one from a neighbor near his home where he learned the very basics of it. So his father, Ren tried as much as possible to obtain one for him.

Now as time had passed, Shin had taught himself most of what a computer is comprised of that is the software and hardware.

The very next day, Shin woke up exceptionally early at 5:00am which was still pretty dark, brushed his teeth and took a hot bath . He then went to the room where his mother had already neatly ironed and wore his uniform. Shin then went to Ren, woke him up and told him that they would be late if he didn't get up.

He then had a light breakfast of scrambled eggs and a bread slice with a cup of ordinary tea. By the time he was done with his breakfast, Ren was also ready. Ren would always have his breakfast at the office so he didn't have any.

By around 7:20am, they arrived at the school gates. Ren then asked Shin how he would return home "should i come pick you up?" while also giving him 2000 shilling note. Shin then replied "don't worry about it! I will find my way home, you don't need to come!"

During all this, Shin had already noticed some of the other students passing by that were staring so he turned around and walked through the gate straight towards the office block which was right next to the outdoor basketball court . Shin found that many students had converged at this place but didn't know why so he decided to ask one of them. His eyes landed on a short medium built boy whom he then asked about what was happening, to which he replied "it seems you are new here, there's gonna be an assembly today starting at 7:30am" he then pulled his hand from his pocket and introduced himself to him, "my name's Kevin. I am a form 2 student." to which Shin said with a delayed response " yeah... am Shin!" "Were you not around for the orientation day? That's where they tell you everything about the school and what goes on here!" .While he was saying this Shin was saying to himself in his mind" I know what orientation means but i guess you just wanted to explain it. Shin then replied " I wasn't here then so i didn't know. " to which Kevin nodded his head while saying "ohh...okay!".

The assembly started and so everyone started forming lines on the basket ball court which were assigned to each year with girls separated from the boys. So Shin joined his respective line and stood at almost the end of the line. The rest of assembly went on Shin not paying attention to most of it . There was those occasional claps and smiles from the other students towards the person speaking up top but Shin didn't pay them any heed. And in a span of a short while, it was finally over and Shin then stood on the side walks of the basketball court which was in between the school office block and it. He then took a quick glance at the note he was given and noticed that the stream he was assigned to was 1/3. And as he was wondering how he would find his class, someone then called out to him from behind and Shin looked, this is when he saw Prossy Sen who then asked him "have you found your class yet?" to which Shin replied " No not yet!" . She then said " Alright, follow me. I will take you!"

Shin followed closely behind as they passed through a short corridor in which to the left was the door to the store where the uniforms were kept, then they continued following the gravel path that then led to the computer lab building on the left and a quadrangle compound with short maintained grass with a short small lime green plant that had been planted all around it like a fence that deterred students from walking through it but instead had to follow the gravel path which turned to the right and passed by the science lab building that was two storied and had the labs down and at the top on the second floor was a classroom for the highest year class at the extreme right , an art room at the left with a staff room for the teachers in between.

Then after finishing off the labs building, straight ahead was the classroom block for Form 1 with all its streams and Shin's stream was straight in front of the path with the stairs leading up to the year six class right in front of it.

Prossy Sen then showed Shin the class and told him to sit anywhere he wanted. Upon entering, Shin saw that almost the entire class had been filled and the side with the large windows on the left had been taken already so he decided to sit at the extreme end at the back seat on the right with tiny 4 inch windows on this side that were high up which caused a bit of dark and dampness on that side while the other side with the large windows was well aerated.