LOG 36: Round 2 begins

Mission report: Stage 1 successfully accomplished, Stage 2 ready to commence. Soon after my meeting with the principal and the supervisor, we decided to resume school (of course, not from where I left off but from wherever the current students were). All I had to do was wake up early every day like I used to and get accustomed to normal school life again. Who was I kidding? Of course, it wasn’t going to be that easy, right?? There has got to be some catch. Of course, there was one! And it wasn’t going to be that simple and an…

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LOG 37: Reality Check

And so, our brave adventurer set forth on his school adventure once again quite so, but was it actually going to be as easy as they had made it sound??? As per the track record, of course not!!! Apart from everything mentioned in the previous log there were obviously some unforeseen hurdles to my return to school that had to be tackled as and when they turned up. Well quite understandably it wasn’t a fairytale story and there were some physical and mental fallings that came as side effects of my entire episode of trauma that my brain had suffered.…

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LOG 38: Safety cuts

Seconds, turned to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to weeks. It was after (quite) a few weeks of my going to school that my parents started getting comfortable with the whole idea of school again and of me being left on my own again. If you remember, my mother was originally staying with me in school for the entire duration of my school day. But, eventually, after lots and lots of support and care by the school and my fellow schoolmates, she soon started dropping me off, going back home to get her own stuff done,…

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LOG 39: All fun and no work makes Smit a dull boy

Well, I suppose the title is self-explanatory. Till now school was just about settling in, getting used to and having fun in general, with the occasional game or two in between. But, as they say, “All fun and no work makes Smit a dull boy”. It was time now, time to finally shift focus on what we actually go to school for - education. Until now, our focus was all about safety, making a slow but steady entry into the world as we know it and so on, and we hadn’t even thought about my academic part of school. I…

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