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    School Daze!
    School Daze!
    School Daze!
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    School Daze!

    By L Tait

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    A novella covering my High School years! As they happened such a long time ago, I'm ready to talk about it now! If your schooldays weren't 'the happiest days of your life', then, have at it! This is for you! Word of warning, though...this may trigger off memories of your own schooldays that you thought you'd managed to forget! Just saying...

    (15,520 words approx).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherL Tait
    Release dateNov 9, 2015
    ISBN9781516317769
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      School Daze! - L Tait

      School Daze!

      L Tait

      Published by L Tait, 2015.

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      SCHOOL DAZE!

      First edition. November 9, 2015.

      Copyright © 2015 L Tait.

      ISBN: 978-1516317769

      Written by L Tait.

      Also by L Tait

      The Van Helsen Series

      Frenemies

      Home Truths

      The Reunion

      Loose Cannon

      Satan's Game

      Artistic Differences

      Keeping Secrets

      Identity Crisis

      Undecided...

      Standalone

      If Only!

      School Daze!

      Random Quest

      I'm Not As Green As I'm Cabbage Looking!

      The Work Experience

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Also By L Tait

      School Daze!

      Also By L Tait

      Author's Note

      This special edition,has been edited, and translated to this digital version,(from the original notebook, which was first conceived on Monday 17th December, 2012, and completed on Wednesday 2nd January 2013)on Wednesday 6th November 2013.  Please note that I have not used pseudonyms, aliases, pen names(you get the idea!). Therefore, names have not been changed to protect the innocent, as quoted from the song, Beat Dis, (not a typo!) by Bomb Da Bass circa 1988, if my memory serves me well! However, I lack imagination, especially when it comes to creating aliases, especially when so many people are involved, so, initials will be used in all cases! But, real...or fake? Only the parties referred to will know the answer to that one! All experiences alluded to, are, to the best of my knowledge, true, in every respect! (Well, what did you expect, from an autobiography?). Thats it! Were going to go back, way back, back into the mists of time... 

      Lilian Tait

      ––––––––

      'School Daze '

      (Introduction)

      There's a popular phrase, often quoted, that goes something like this...'Your schooldays are the happiest days of your life.' (Usually quoted by your parents, or some authority figure).

      Oh, really? Really really? Yes, there's less to worry about, but, young people have their problems too! Its all relative.  Your parents worry about paying the bills and keeping a roof over your head, whereas, young people of high school age worry about...other things, which I am about to discuss in greater detail! Perhaps, your own experiences of school, from the secondary standpoint, were happier than mine, but, as mentioned in my fifty third journal(which is a completely separate enterprise!) The Progress Paradigm, School Daze covers my High School years, and the aforementioned journals started when I was twenty one years old.  I wasn't prepared to talk before about my WH years, which are only partially addressed in my first novel, but, I'm thirty nine years old now at the time of writing this, and feel that I have sufficiently distanced myself enough from it all, enabling me to look back, and reflect upon these years with some objectivity.  Therefore, I am attempting to fill in the blanks.  We all have busy lives now, so, there are relatively few who can even be bothered with keeping a diary, when they work full time and have children to look after, swallowed up by the minutiae of life, day in, day out.

      Which puts me in a unique position, for I, wordsmith a go-go, can offer a clear view of the world that others seldom get, practically unspoiled by the caprices and vagaries of life.  To those of you who knew me then, be afraid, be very afraid!

      So...come closer, and get ready to learn about an innocent time, before mobile phones and t'internet, and laptops, tablets, netbooks etc, came along! Time to dig out the legwarmers, pixie boots and snoods, stick on a bit of A-ha's Take On Me, and find yourself a copy of Smash Hits! Ring the bell! School is in session!

      Chapter One

      The First Day

      What can I say about one's first day of Secondary school? I attended WH, which was only a ten minute walk from my home, and, it was on this day in history, the 17th of August, 1985, that I was first introduced to the joys of high school.  Nothing defines the struggle of life more than being at the highest level in Primary School, Primary seven, only to find yourself back at the bottom of an even longer ladder.  On that morning, there were two other girls I walked down to school with.  PM, who lived three doors up from me, and, her mum always had to be the first (or, one of the first!), people to get their Christmas tree up, in the entire street, and FC, who lived near the School playing fields(now deserted).

      So,

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