JAMAICA, THE ISLAND WHERE I WAS BORN... I still
remember as a child, at the age of three years old that I
went to a private school and entered kindergarten. My
mother walked me to school everyday but she stopped
doing so after a while. I then had to go with my brother
who always made me late. He would stop at the bakery
and talk and then move on and stop and talk again etc.
It got so bad that the Head Master of the school
had a talk with my mom, so my mom started taking me
to school again, but that didn’t last very long.
Again I went with my brother, but he would rarely go to
school. He would jump on the back of a truck and go in the
opposite way from school. He left me alone. I was scared
but I said to myself, “I have a pretty good idea how to get
to school by now, so I walked alone. I was only three years
old at the time. I finally made it to school. I was so happy!
As the morning turned into lunchtime, I realized that I did
not have any lunch to eat. My brother was told to give me
some of his lunch, but he wasn’t in school. One of my little
friends saw that I had no lunch so she shared hers with
me. The lunch she shared with me was not even enough
for her. I’ll never forget her. She was a good friend.