Nursery, primary and secondary school students today begin the 2009/2010 school year nationwide. After three months of vacation, pupils, and students today begin the 2009/2010 school year throughout the nation. The usual traffic and disorder along roadsides and school junctions was

witnessed this morning as school pupils struggled to make their way into the four corners of their classroom. Joy characterised the atmosphere in most school premises this morning as students are happy to meet school mates but regret there will be little or no time to unwind as it was the case during the holidays. The Minister of Secondary Education, Louis Bapes Bapes, will today officially launch the 2009/2010 school year at the Nkozoa secondary school along the Obala road. Meanwhile the Minister of Basic Education will visit some primary schools in the Mfoundi Division today. No more holiday games. The 2009/2010 school race is on. From a hectic period of leisure, school pupils are now back into their classrooms for academic matters. In a bid to crown holiday activities, most students went clubbing over the weekend. According to them, spending an entire night dancing was the best way to separate with friends especially those who are going far to resume school. This could account for the severe bustling that was witnessed in some night clubs over the weekend in Yaounde. However, some students had a different way to get themselves prepare for back-to-school. Marie-Simone and her sisters underwent a spiritual retreat to seek God??s blessings for the 2009/2010 school year. While students got themselves prepare for school reopening, so too were parents and school authorities. Parents say they had been involved in school preparations from the time their children came home for holidays. As such, they were putting finishing touches to what they started three months back over the weekend. In a brief stop in some school premises over the weekend, registration of old and new students was already taking place. School authorities, particularly those in the nursery sections, have already cleaned classrooms and their surroundings to receive kids. Most of these children will be making their first entrance into a classroom today. However, some students in voluntary agency (mission) schools had returned to school some days back. Such was the case with Upper Sixth students, Form Five and Form One students in some of these mission schools. But a majority of the student body will return to school today.
Brenda YUFEH, Cameroon Tribune

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