LOOKING BACK 3 YEARS AGO (May - July 2018): LAST DAYS AT MSG HIGH SCHOOL // BY @thebeloved001 // #CLUB5050

INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone here on Steemit, my fellow Steemians, I'm forever @thebeloved001.

It is with Joy and happiness I Join this contest hosted by the @steemalive community titled Looking Back

This contest is all about reflecting on a special period of our past life.

LAST DAYS AT MSG HIGHSCHOOL

In this contest I'll be writing about my last days experience at my secondary school Mount Saint Gabriel's Secondary School, Makurdi, Benue State.

The title Last Days At MSG High School was given by SET 2016 graduands when they registered for JAMB and the book/novel given for that year was- Last Days At Forcados High School.

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I graduated from MSG Sec. Sch. on the 10th of July, 2018 and it was a whole experience for me especially spending such amount of years as a Boarding Student.

We concluded our WAEC in May 2018 and we had a month break before writing our NECO.

It's a culture for all clubs and societies in the school to do their annual day celebration and handover during this period of space since SS3 who are mostly in charge and are heading it are done with their main Exam with is WAEC.

PRESS CLUB

... journalism without fear or favour!

I was a member of the Press Club then in school and it was that time of the session where handover and celebration should be done.

The press club was a highly rated club in the school and they were treated with care and soft.

Every year the Club runs a contest in Conjunction with the school authority to have for that year-

• Mr. MSG
• Face of MSG
• Most Fly (Famous)

I decided to register through the club's president and run for Face of MSG.

FACE OF MSG

25th May, 2018 was the day of the annual day celebration and contest. The Contest is being pulled up in 3 outings from the contestants from all category-
1st outing- School Uniform
2nd outing- Sport
3rd outing- [Cooperate for Mr. MSG], [Traditional for Face of MSG], & [Free style Afro Outfit for Most Fly].

All contestants in their 3rd and last outing & myself in my Igala Cultural clothing (one shinning majorly yellow)

1st outing was a run way modeling outing, 2nd outing is to display any sport activity on stage and 3rd outing is also a run way modeling outing and you stay back on stage till all are done and the winners announced by the Judges.

Session with well wishers a day after the event

It was a tough decision but yet a winner must emerge and to the doings of God I was badged winner as the Face of MSG 2018 where I was given an award and a sash as a winner and other dignitary recognition by the school and other clubs.

Myself flexing my Sash 😃😃😃

AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE

June 2018 came inn and ended on a terrible flow.

It's a culture for all clubs and societies in the school to do their annual day celebration and handover during this period of space since SS3 who are mostly in charge and are heading it are done with their main Exam with is WAEC.

This time around it was Young Catholic Student's (YCS) Annual Sectional Day Celebration and it was done on the 24th of June, 2018.

As the Face of MSG I came around to observe and grace the event. By this time I was mostly staying in the house and not in the school no more as it was near time for graduation and I needed to prepare myself while I was still writing NECO.

After the event myself and our press club president were stopped on our way home by two cultists under the Sunday Sun at gun point and my phone was received.

It was the first time I had to experience something like that where two guns were removed from beneath and cracked to pointing our heads.

I had to humbly submit the phone without receiving my Memory card or Sim card. I was down through out the day when I got home which resulted to me being phoneless for several months (this happened 16 days to my graduation).

GRADUATION SET '18

My graduation jotter

10th of July, 2018 was the day I said "BYE" to secondary school and the mostly painful part was saying 'bye' to my mates whom till date I've not seen some. Sharing such huge years together closed in restricted corners where we had to leave childhood and embrace adolescence and then seperating was a painful feeling and experience at that.

The images I took in the studio and used on the jotter too were lost as I lost I phone after YCS's Annual Sectional Day.

I ensured I enjoyed every bit of that day from morning to night as it was the last time of sharing such bond as a Set and Family. We are now members of the Old Boys Association (OBA) as it was an all boys secondary school.

Today we answer- MSG OBA '18

CONCLUSION

We ended with a Thanksgiving Service on the 15th of July, 2018 where we gathered together for the last time to thank God for the just concluded journey of Six Years joint with an awesome WAEC result of which mine was- 4 distinction & 4 credits.

Images of myself and Basil from thanksgiving service

GRADUATION PHOTO LIBRARY-

EPILOGUE

Engaging in this contest has brought back memories upon memories that has broughttear to my eyes, broken my heart, filled my soul with life, smile on my face and thanksgiving from my lips.

Thank you so much @steemalive for such a beautiful contest as this. I love my Community.

Thank you so much Pastor P sir @peterabagi, you inspire an motivate me sir.

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