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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
SPEECH
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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