School Days

'School days are the best days of your life.` I have heard that said so often, but I disagree. Adult life was much more attractive for me. Memories of childhood and adolescence are happy, though. I got to like the primary school in a rural town, where the surrounding farms seemed to roll on forever. I enjoyed the teachers, the subjects they explained, playing softball and learning to swim down at the pool. I went to two high schools in two towns, similar really. I hated leaving the first, but adapted to the second, becoming their top scholar in form seven, but clashing with teachers and glad to discard the uniform after graduation.