Nothing feels close to the freedom you have as a student when you’re done with exams in secondary school. During the few days before going on term break, teachers don’t enforce rules and anything goes. School clubs sometimes organize career seminars, where some teachers are invited.

My mother told me I was born during a heavy downpour. This has always made me feel a sense of connection with rain. Hmm.. I just told you something irrelevant because it would be weird to start this piece with - “The calm before the storm”. Anyway, after the storm, there’s also a calm. In this case, you could imagine a deafening pitch of a new born baby.

There I was, looking back at about 300 pairs of eyes. “Quowam, Dance,” a teacher shouted from behind. It was our annual End of the Year party, and it’s a usual thing for teachers to drag students out at random to entertain “the audience.”