Year 7 At Tibcot Comp - A Mel, Tab, Mewla & Cathy story

Chapter Two


  We had been sitting talking for about five minutes when Miss Mewola came back into the room with two more kittens. We looked up. She had a boy and a girl with her, and at once we were struck by their looks. They were very dark, with black hair and very tanned brown skin, and very dark eyes. The girl was extrenely pretty.
  "Wow, they look really exotic." Tab whispered to me. "Spanish or something do you think?"
  "Yeah, I reckon." I said. "She looks kind-of fiery, if you know what I mean."
  "Yeah." said Tab. "Yet another brother and sister - must be a record in this class."
  Mewla and Cathy came walking over to sit with us as Miss Mewola started to walk round with the two Spanish kittens.
  "This is Purbelle, and this is Mewfal." Miss Mewola said.
  "Hiya." we all said.
  "God, you are absolutely stunning." Cathy suddenly said to Purbelle. She blushed, then grinned at Cathy.
  "Thanks." she said.
  We all tried to hide our laughter. It wasn't that she wasn't stunning, it was just so funny that Cathy came out with it just like that.
  "I can't believe you just said that to her!" Mewla laughed, when they walked along to meet the Johnson sisters.
  "Well I believe in saying what you think." Cathy said casually. "Why keep it inside? She's a gorgeous girl, so I told her!"
  The next few additions over the next ten or fifteen minutes were Tom's friend Francis, another foreign-looking lad called Mewbile, and two more girls, Purbecca and Alimew. Purbecca was a well built, horse-rider type of girl, with very long dark glossy curls, and Alimew was a sporty-looking girl with a bob of light brown hair cut round her cheeks. They seemed to know each other already, and sat together after they'd been introduced.
  "Right then, quiet everyone!" Miss Mewola stood in front of her desk and smiled round at us all. "Welcome to Group 7CM. This will be your tutor group all through your years here, so I hope you're going to get on!"
  We all laughed.
  "After I've called the register, you will be shown round the school so you can get a basic feel of where everything is. After that you will be given your timetables, and depending on what the time is, you will go off to your lesson. I don't think you have PE today so there's no need to worry if any of you don't have your kits with you. There will be another register called after lunch, so when the bell goes, please come back here before you go to your last lesson. Now, just bear with me a few minutes while I get some paperwork from reception, then we'll go on our tour."
  Miss Mewola left the room and we all started chatting again.

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  In a few minutes, Miss Mewola was back, and we all got up to go for our tour of the school. She told us to leave our coats and bags in the tutor room, and that we would be going back there later to get our timetables.
  The tour was quite interesting. The main building was home to most of the teachers' offices on the ground floor, the nurses's office, the hall, which doubled up as the canteen at lunch and break, with a tuck shop at breaktimes, and a couple of small science labs at the back of the building. Upstairs in the main building were a lot more science labs, the science store cupboards, and the janitor's cupboard. Joined on to the back of the main building was the gym, complete with wall bars, ropes, climbing apparatus, and a cupboard full of balls, rubber mats, wooden horses, and tons of other gym equipment.
  Out from the main building was the rest of the school. We were struck by how pretty the outside was, there were bushes and trees everywhere, beds full of bright flowers, and lots of benches dotted around.
  Another fairly large building near to the main building was the library, and on the floor above that was the headteacher's office, and the offices of the deputy head and the year heads. Miss Mewola joked with us that she didn't want to hear any reports of us going up there, as it would most likely mean we were in trouble for something. We all laughed, some of us rather nervously.
  Next to the main building, down some small steps, was the Humanities block, where our tutor room was, where the Geography, French and History classrooms were. We had a quick tour of there. Along from the Humanities block were several two storey blocks where the older kittens had their tutor rooms, which were used as English rooms. Opposite these blocks, across the large main walkway which went all the way along between the buildings, was the large round Drama room, a separate building by itself, and past there, all the Technology huts, some new ones with computers in for IT, and some old ones full of work benches and equipment for Woodwork, Metalwork, etc. Past those was the tall building that housed the Cooking rooms on the first and second floors, and a few more computer rooms on the ground floor. Down past the tech huts were the Art rooms, pleasant sunny buildings full of rooms crammed with paintings and sculptures. At the other side of the tech huts, at the main building, was the entrance to the changing rooms for the gym, which backed on to the gym, and a back door for the science labs on the ground floor.
  Right at the bottom of the main walkway, down past all the Art rooms on one side and the English blocks on the other side, was the swimming pool and sports hall, where everyone played things like football, tennis, badminton etc indoors. Lying next to the sports hall was a vast expanse of school fields, where we were to do PE in the nice weather. There was a hockey pitch, football pitch, netball courts which backed onto the sports hall, and lots of plain green field for every other type of sport.
  It was, in all, a really nice school. I was pleased, and quite looking forward to being there by that time.