| UT OMNES UNUM SINT "that all may be one" |
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| This page is about my alma mater...the place i spent some of the best years of my life. It's just a hodge-podge of information about the things i remember about the school while i was there. I just couldn't build a website without dedicating a whole page to the "Grey City" |
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| Dorm Life: I was in Kingsley house, the house of the too- known ladies! My house mistresses were Madame Yeboa and "Mallam Acolatse" I was in D dorm till form 5, then arbitrarily relocated to A dorm coz it was cooler.. and spent lower 6 in C dorm then to A stairs boxroom. I was B lawn monitress (glorified garden boy). My favorite place in the whole house was the cage (where we kept our chopboxes). |
| Extra Curricula Activities: I was the queen of extra curriculum! U name it, i did it! Below is a list of my extra curricula activities: - Gateing (definition below) - Cadet Corps - Aggrey Chapel Soloist - Female Hockey Team Captain - Swimming Club Vice President - Debating Society member - Art Club - Papping (Definition below) |
| School Song: From Gambaga to Accra, from Wiawso to Keta, We are brothers [sisters] and our mother is our school She will guide us all and each so to learn that we may teach So to subjugate oursleves that we may rule Chorus: Play the game, shout her name, spread her fame afar she's the head of all the hosts, she's the school of whom we boast She's the glory of the coast ACHIMOTA (alternate chorus as sung by the cadet corps) Play the game, shout her name, spread her legs apart You can do it with a stick, it is better with a finger It is best with a prick.... Achimota. |
| Academics: U'd think that with all my extra curricula activities i'd be as dumb as a doorpost... but surprisingly enough i never failed any exams...I passed the O level exams with flying colors and was readmitted into sixth form where i read Fine Art...and yeah.. i passed the A levels too with flying colors too. My favorite teacher was "father bubble" (Archibishop Palmer- Buckle to the rest of the world) |
| Names of staff members i remember: Bob Say [Bob Satan] - Headmaster Monk (R.I.P.) - Former Aggrey House Master and Anglican chaplain Tortoash - Clark Housemistress Zee zee Aboagye - Aggrey hsemaster Run after the gym - Frmr Snr Housemistress Bedipoks- Chemistry tutor Bokassa - Dining Hall Master Franco - Art master Avor 1 (Ken Kafui) - Music Master Son B - Livingstone House Master Father bubble - Catholic chapel priest Adoray - Snr. housemaster to be cont'd as and when i remember the rest... |
gateing................. unsanctioned pairings of male and female students (u get my meaning?) bedding.................sleeping gnashing................without a partner of the opposite sex (not a good thing to be in a co-ed institution) struffing ..............studying halaaing................canvassing for prefectship cutting..................deliberately missing school functions/classes (AWOL) papping.................leaving school without an exeat blow.....................excel in class blow.....................size of food serving bomb....................fail exams choch/chochee.......a little (pertaining to amount or size) para......................to covet (as in parasite) bollus....................kenkey doche....................plantain and beans/red red rolling...................waakye/rice and beans loaf.......................bread gasso....................the stuff they serve as stew in the dining hall (as in Gas oil) rocks....................corn porridge abele was..............corn meal porridge pamscad................bread made from yellow flour heavy....................gari and shito light......................gari and sugar shorme..................perfume/cologne chack....................to disgust bullet/shot..............to mess up the english language shii........................not eating in the dining hall munch/fire.............to have sex akpakus.................to be unneccessarily mean to a junior nino..................... freshman/form 1 student advanced nino....... sophomore/form 2 student akora....................form 3 student semi senior........... form four student senior...................form 5 student citizen..................sixth former bef.......................bofflot/doughnuts atwitwi.................bringing a car to campus to show off fancy driving discotheque...........living quarters behind the boys gym where some awesome kenkey and kyofi was sold |
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| "...go forth as living waters to a thirsty land" (Gordon Guggisberg, Founder) |
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