Previously on Chopbox Life: There really was nothing to say. My face felt hot. My eyes stung. Somehow, and I don’t know how, the tears never came. My mind flew in a thousand different directions, and I lost track of time. I don’t know how long it was, but after…

He walked up to our table with his weird mix of confident stride and subtle limp. There we sat, sixteen scared boys looking up at the person who was literally the hardest guy in Motown. “Gentleman.” He pronounced the word really fast, so it sounded like ‘ jerilman’. “ Jerilman”…

Moving Day — Aggrey’s Smizzle & C-Dorm It’s when you see your prospectus that it actually dawns on you that this is happening… you are actually going to school. You’ll buy a chopbox, trunk, mattress, exercise books, provisions, sew khaki trousers and shorts, buy white shirts, shoes, sandals… all manner of wearables and eatables. Typically, when you’re…

There’s a certain verse in the book of Ecclesiastes. It reads like this: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof… Ecclesiastes 7:8 I guess it depends on what that “thing” is… but certainly, generally, better is the end of an academic term than the beginning. …

Chemistry, Prep and Other ‘Dates’

In 2010, for the first time since it’s inception, the FIFA World Cup was hosted on African soil. South Africa 2010 was Africa’s first opportunity to host-and hopefully win-the world’s greatest football trophy. You remember, don’t you? You cried too, didn’t you? Such painful memories. Suarez. Hmmm. …