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once to my face, that I really wasn’t smart be-
      JOCHEBED                                                  voracious  reader  since  childhood,  I  loved  lit-
                                                                cause  I  didn’t  naturally  excel  at  Maths.  As  a


                                                                erature and English. But Mathematics was a
                                                                struggle for me. I remember people asking me
      PEACE                                                     in Maths class, “But Jochebed, you’re so smart

                                                                – why do you sometimes ask such stupid
                                                                questions?” The day of my final History exam,
                                                                I almost broke down in tears when the papers
      AIREDE                                                    were laid out in front of me because I was so
                                                                sure I wasn’t ready. On the day of my A-Lev-
                                                                el  English  Literature  exam,  I  did  break  down
                                                                in tears, sitting outside my teacher’s window,

      CLASS OF 2018                                             convinced  that  I  hadn’t  done  enough;  that  I
                                                                wasn’t  enough;  that  this  would  finally  be  the
      Proxime Accessit                                          day that I was exposed, and everyone would
                                                                know  that  it  was  true  –  Jochebed  wasn’t  as
        WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY SPEECH                            smart as everyone believed.






      Good afternoon, everyone.

      M          y name is Jochebed Peace Airede

                 and, contrary to popular belief, I
                 sometimes struggled in my aca-
      demics, both as a secondary school student at                            Click Here
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      Regent  and  eventually  as  an  A-Level  student
      at The Regent College. While studying here like
                                                                                jochebed
      all of you, I juggled taking 11 IGCSE subjects with
      serving as the Deputy Head Girl and Deputy
      Volta House Captain.                                                        airede’S
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      I remember sometimes feeling so over-
      whelmed that I just wanted to disappear – not
      to die, but to be somewhere in another world
      where I didn’t have the responsibilities that I did
      and it didn’t feel like the weight of the world –
      the weight of everybody’s expectations – were
      on my shoulders.


      I remember the whispers, behind my back and








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