Everyone's first day in a new place stands out in their memories, and is distinctive from everyone else's.
Damba will receive a "My Life" book this term, containing all the experiences she has written about in her SELI Young Writers process-writing club at Dankawalie Secondary School in the past two years.
One topic she chose to write about was how she came to join the club. I thought you'd like to read what she wrote:
First Day at SELI
One day when we were in the assembly, Mr K called the SELI members Abu, Fatmata and Alusine.
I decided to go with them. When they were writing their experiences, I did not know what to do. I stood by the door and watched them. They were taking paper and pens to write. When Mr K called me, he said, “Why are you standing without writing?”
I said I did not know how to write a story. He said, “Ok, come here. Let me show you how to write a story.” He explained the steps that I must undertake when writing.
The first story that I wrote about was my aunty’s death in Freetown.
I liked the story about my aunty. When they came with the typed story, Mr K told me to read it in the assembly. I was afraid. My friends told me not to be afraid when reading it. By the end of my story, I started crying because I lost my aunty whom I loved best.
Since that day, I liked SELI and story writing is my favourite activity. My parents, too, liked the story I wrote of my aunty.
We praise this school for giving students many opportunities to read their own writing aloud to others, such as reading it aloud in assembly and taking it home to share with their parents.
