Being at a lower class back then in college is an
experience one has to live up with. Fascinating,
thrilling and also terrifying in sense that you
always have to be pushed around by those in higher form.

One of the most challenging period then and will
continue to be is returning back to school from the
Xmas holiday.
The school compound is messed-up by heaps of
dry-shed leaves laying here and there.
Of course you know whose responsibility to clear
them - 'the junior students '.

To get that done quickly, the senior students'
services is employed.
With sweat all over my body while working under
the sun and dirt stocked-in in my fingers... for we
were provided with crude or no tools at all; I would
yell at the trees, " for goodness sake, why can't
you hold on to your leaves".

"WHY DO TREES SHED THEIR LEAVES" I wondered.
This I keep on wondering till am advanced in class.
Damn it! The trees respond to stimuli.
During the winter, they try to save the little water
that they can find. And to minimize loss of water to
the atmosphere, they shed their leaves. Trees
loose water through their leaves(stomata)
by a process known as transpiration.
Source: www.Sciencezone12..com