Friday afternoons are for mentorship and career talks at ABC high school. The counselor for the ss3 class was unavoidably absent on that faithful Friday and miss Angela was asked to take the session with the students. The principal did not want the students to miss any career session so they won't be idle doing nothing and most importantly because they would be leaving the secondary setting to a larger environment. He wanted to be make sure that the students were not half baked and that they were well prepared for the journey ahead of them.
Angela was just a spinster of 23 years of age and an only child to her parents. Her parents had been divorced since she was a little girl and her mum had done a lot of work in raising her. She graduated with first class in Early childhood education and resolved to become a teacher but her mum had nothing against her choice of career unlike some parents who would not like their children to choose teaching as a profession.
When she stepped into the classroom, she became anxious and didn't know what to talk to the students about as she herself was young and had no experience in counseling. After several conflicting thoughts in her head, she decided to share her mother's personal story.She greeted the students and told them she has a story for them. Immediately, they paid rapt attention to her and she started her narration.
'My mum was a very smart and intelligent girl while growing up....