As I type this, Jill Scott: Just Wanna Be Loved, is playing in the background.
Wow, it has been a while! Almost a year since my last post... Hard to just continue, feels like I must re-introduce myself... But I won't, instead, this will be a little trip down "Leine's memory" (Pun intended). I was thinking about PMS 6th Form (college) today, and the "study room" which was more of a social area, than a place of academic interests. I remember my first and second year there, when the "boys" (Mide, Kobe, Theo and Keith), as well as most of the girls I went to secondary school with, were still around.
Plumstead was lively then, around "home time"! I remember walking through the "common" to get to the bus stops (51, 291... and of course the 53). I remember lunch time and the co-op, or the "chippy", I remember the rare times when we ate from the "Hungry Minds" canteen... Oh tell me you remember that place!!! Through the left side windows', you could see the Basketball court! Ah... the guys used to play during summer time. Is that where "Kobe" got his name from?!! Or was it in the Games hall?
After lunch was the best, Sally and I would sit on those short and hard and brown benches in that huge hall, round the middle, where that huge curtain (that seperated the place in two) would be and watch either the guys play or the girls dance, with the borrowed "boom box" from the music department! Ah those times! When Miss Burdette (whose name was really ALIDA, can you handle??? lol) would come and tell us to leave! Ghosh she was a pain, wasn't she? Then it would be back to the study room, sitting on tables and catching jokes (Mide's job), I remember when Adam broke the window... wait windowS! Lol, oh and remember how we had to use our SmartCard to open the "Negus" areas, like the common room. Oh the common room and it's pool table... I never learnt to play, too sad. I remember the vending machines and its exhorbitant prices, also remember the how friendly everyone was towards the guy who came to replenish the stock. I remember that thing we used to sit on, right opposite Burdett's office.I remember the stairs at the entrance... we used to hang out there too sometimes.
What about after classes, when Bukky and Nancy would do their dancing back in the study room!! Lol, "makossa" was always on the menu, and Ciara too ;). I remembered when Nana tried, as hard as she could, to teach me that "pulling the rope" move, I was as lost a cause then, as I am now lol. I remembered that BEAUTIFUL teacher, forgot her name, the one who dressed REAL good, who conducted the Negus' choir?!!! Every single guy fancied her, and the girls adnired her. I remember those MSN parties, all the dissing that went on... lol.
Rich times man... I remember that chinese restaurant in woolwhich too, we'd often gather, or rather, invade and eat there lol. I remembered Maura and the cerain "someones" who had crushes on her, lololol, I won't mention names, but yeah I remember... I also remember when Ade passed away, I was on holiday, in France, 1st of August 2004. I had no idea until I came back in Septmeber, and Nana told me, I was so devastated. Muna felt it more. I remember his voice and his rendition of Marvin Gay's classic in assembly, I had goosebumps, he sang beautifully. Ade would have been our age, on facebook, sharing his singing through myspace or youtube, he might even have been a contestant on the x-factor... what would he be doing now?...
On this note I leave you,
To wander through your own memories...
Walk down memory lane,
Remember faces, places
And names...
How much have we grown from all those years ago?!
Creatively Yours,
MsPoe.
