1979 and those who wanted to bully

The year would start with the very first assembly in the school hall where the big event was the announcement of the Head of school. This was a big event in many ways including the fact that it destroyed lives, caused others to go into hibernation etc. depending on this one single announcement. Mogere of CF was announced Head of School. A big guy with a small voice.

Our head of house this year was George Osure. A tall big guy who couldn’t be beaten in either the 100 metres or 200 metres.

As second formers we were happy to see some characters had departed from Lenana for good. Our lives would only get better.

There was of course the endless wait for first formers to arrive and take over most of the load we were still carrying as the only rabbles around.

When they finally arrived towards the end of January, the true colours of many of us came out. I detested bullying with all my heart and had no intention of meting out any of the treatment I had received on the first formers. Some of my housemates in second form did not agree and just couldn’t wait to get a little revenge for the hell they had gone through in first form. I found this odd because we had spent hours with some of them discussing how we would never involve ourselves in the crude, barbaric acts of bullying. Now some of them were really excited about the prospect of pushing around and hitting first formers.

When they arrived we were able to see for the first time just how confused we must have looked on our fist day in school the previous year.