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ndani kyema, My Story - Ray Moore 38

Our new home was in Block 23 on the ground floor. It had probably been a teacher’s
flat in a former life. Block 23 was a large building with a bell tower in the centre. The
front of the building had a long stone flagged verandah along its full length, and one
end of this verandah led to a door which gave access to our quarters.

Block 23 Prep School Quarters and hospital

Inside the front door was a tiny hallway with a room straight ahead. This was the
teachers' bedroom. By that stage in the school’s evolution we were down to three
female teachers, Miss Carr, Miss Stark, and Miss Woodward. They would not have

had an easy task, and I seemed to be one of those who was constantly fronting up

for 'the strap'. We knew the idiosyncrasies of each teacher, and when Miss

Woodward gave the strap, she would keep her arm stiff. Consequently we saw that if

we could manoeuvre her to a position just below a light bulb, there was a good

likelihood that she would hit it, hopefully with entertaining results. We were rewarded

a couple of times. If you turned left in the small hallway, there were two more rooms.
The one on the left was the girls’ room. There were five girls left in the Prep School,
and in the last room there were nine boys.