The holidays are almost over and the atmosphere is starting to change. We are getting into the “back to school mode”. In stores, the holiday decorations are being replaced by posters. Posters with school kids and their back packs, and an apple. I don’t know why apples are associated with school. Anyway, people are buzzing with excitement, especially the kids. They can’t wait to see their school friends again, play on the school grounds, and write. Yeah, write. These young ones love to write.

But for me going back to school is waking up early, way too early. Especially since I haven’t been waking up early for such a long time. It is me forcing my body to do the inevitable. School is me carrying a bag that weighs my shoulders down (I seriously need to get a locker this year). It is me daydreaming in the middle of a lesson. School is a reminder of the great time I had during the holidays.

But most of all school is about me staying strong and resisting the TUCK-SHOP. Yep I said it. The tuck-shop is tempting in every way. It is loaded with all sorts of junk food, ready to be bought and eaten. The tuck-shop is my worst enemy, and it is tempting me to break my new year’s resolution(avoid junk food at all times!)

Thinking about schools makes me think that I have a long year ahead of me. I have thought of ways of avoiding the “enemy”: I could not attend break, but that’s out of the option. I could carry lunch, but there’s only much that I can carry, and what if I’m late for school? When I’m late making lunch is the last thing on my mind.

I guess I’ll have to take it a day as it comes. But  the tuck-shop is the least of my worries about school. Going into the 11th grade I have a lot on my mind. Worrying about what I eat at school will have to wait.

Like most teens, I cannot wait till I get back to school, because the school years are the best years of ones life.

It’s going to be a ……. year!