9:45 PM LIGHTS OUT!!!!! Like it is in all boarding schools, we were instructed to go to bed. Aminat and I stood up sluggishly and dragged our tired feet to the hostel.
10:15 PM Lights out, but not totally, because Maria, the Christian girl from Ashigashiya the neighbouring village, who is now schooling in Chibok in other to write her exams, is still cooking; a practice she says is a norm in her school. I had a wary smile on my face, not because she was cooking, but because my Literature teacher gave me her word that I will recite my poem, composed by myself, in front of the class. Haaa, tomorrow is just by the corner, and it promises to be a very

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