A long, long time ago
This is dedicated to Mrs. E. Borde, my Form 3 history teacher. Settle down, kiddies, it’s an actual dedication to a teacher. Mrs. Borde taught us history back in the day. And for me, she turned it into a subject that was SO boring, SO horrific that 2 things happened. The first was that history (notably Caribbean history) was the first and only subject that I have ever failed in my life. The second was that I developed a deep-seated hatred for anything labelled as “historical.” And that’s very sad. There were several careers that interested me back when I was 14 in Form 3, but when I learnt that they REQUIRED history, I turned away from them. (I wonder now if I would have enjoyed any of them, really) My reading (which has always been prodigious) moved away from anything that touched on Caribbean history, because it sent me back to that period in my life where those classes were torment. At university, I skated through the required History of the Caribbean classes, attending may