Greetings to you all!
Sure you're having a nice weekend?
Permit me to start this with a question,
When did you know about the four cardinal points? What class? What age?
I sense most of you got to know this at a very early age, kudos to you guys 馃檶.
Mine was totally different, I got to know the four cardinal points when I was in high school (Junior Secondary class 2), around the age of 12years to 15years.
Before you start looking at me as an 'olodo'(dullard), please know that it wasn't solely my fault but the fault of the school I passed through. I schooled in a government school in a rural area...you should know how the setting is
That Rugged day...
We were on Social Studies class and a relative of mine was the teacher (A woman). Mehn! Whenever this aunty is in class I used to behave well because I don't like anything relative's dragging in school, so I was very calm & attentive during the class.
One thing led to another, just to make sure we were getting all she's saying in that particular lecture, she pointed at one of the class members to stand up, he stood up and she landed the question on him; "Mention the four cardinal points"
I'm sure the question sounded like a gunshot in his ears, he hasn't heard anything like that before, so he was dumbfounded.
The teacher got angry and called him out, "what do you mean? You don't know ordinary four cardinal points and you're in class 2?" She got angry and wiped him four lashes of cane on his back. My guy cried out loud like a baby.
We wanted to laugh but we knew that who she'll catch laughing would turn to the Jesus Christ of the class, so everyone maintained muteness馃き.
"Who will bail him out or I flog every member of this class?" She asked with anger.
Honestly, a large number of us don't know the answer and there's only one guy we're sure that knows the answer, so we were expecting him to stand up and bail us but he never did.
So this aunty (teacher) got more furious and decided to call out every member of the class one after the other to give the answer and if you fails, you get your back wiped with six lashes of cane.
At this moment, we just gave up because there's no way to get the answer... phones to browse were not common then, the only people that had phone were rich kids and they were not familiar with Google then.
I don't know if it's hatred 馃, this aunty decided to start with my row and she was enjoying the flogging because none of us were getting the answer. The sounds of cane were so tormenting and it was as if, the more she flogs, the more the intensity increases.
My seatmate decided to adopt the legendary way of preventing cane from paining the skin, which is putting a stone in the mouth while receiving the cane.
He did that and when it got to his turn, only the first lash forced him to open his mouth and the three stones fell out from his mouth. The aunty saw the stones and increased her tempo. We wanted to laugh but we couldn't馃ぃ.
Omo! It got to my turn, she didn't even behaved as if we we're relatives, she struck me hard like a thunder and I couldn't resist the tears.
The merciless flogging continued untill it got to the turn of the brilliant boy I talked about earlier, she asked him and he "foolishly" opened his mouth to dish out the correct answer.
You know why I said "foolishly"? He could have saved us all from the beginning but he chose to "show himself". mtchwwwww!
Although, the few people behind him were not flogged and for sure, he became their Messiah that day.
That was my first time knowing the four cardinal points
North
South
East
West