Story Of My Life.
By: Babar Alikhan
Tags: Self Improvement, Storytelling, School Life, Achievements, Confidence

Hello everyone.

This time I’ve came up with one of the most beautiful and amazing period of my life. No matter how much thankful I am for this, it’ll be always less. That place made me what I am today. This blog is about life in my boarding school Abbottabad Public School, APS.

Abbottabad Public School by Talha Khaliq.

Honestly speaking the city from which I am had no much effective schools back in 2010–11. So my father decided to admit me in a boarding school. At first majority of my family was not in favor of it and most importantly I did not want to go because at that time I was in grade sixth and its very common to be scared of life far from home. My father told me to take your time and think over it. Let me tell you I am a kind of adventure lover person so I thought lets give it try. I went to my father and informed him about my decision.

Next day I filled forms and started preparation for the entry test. Basically APS is on of the best schools of Pakistan founded in 1958. That time the name was Railway Public School. As clear from name, it was basically made for children of railway employees and then in 1961 its name was changed to Abbottabad Public School. After going through prospectus I was a it scared if I will pass the test or not because of all the great history and reputation of such great I was not much confident but I continued my preparation and hoped for the best. Test day came and it went really good and then started the time which passes so difficultly; wait for the result.. I PASSED THE TEST and then got a call for interview and medical which also went well and finally got my call letter from school.

As they say until you do not experience something you cannot exactly tell about it so my feelings were just normal. Then the day came when I had to go to APS. It was march 2011. My family dropped me to school, did all the essential paper works and I got Liaqat House. Bought everything which was required and my family went. It was hard time. I already started missing them. I still remember my mother was crying and that really made me much emotional but it happens. We all new comers did introduction and all of us were from different places all around Pakistan. that made me realize that how famous this school is.

Abbottabad Public School by Talha Khaliq.

In first days we started discovering the school. APS covers almost 65 acres of land so it is a really big school; academic block, hostels, mosque, dispensary, laundry, sports grounds, libraries, swimming pools and lots of other things. Simply I can it a small kingdom in itself where one can find each and everything. Beside academics there were lots of co curriculum activities for us like sports, swimming, athletics, different competitions, clubs and trips etc. I consider APS as my second home. It was like hundreds of brothers living together.

APS literally changed my life. There I covered a journey from being nothing to something. Lets talk about the changes. I was an ordinary boy only being just average in studies, nothing else. First of all I tried sports and with practice I got into the school teams, improved my photography to next level, learned swimming, my personality was changed, my way of thinking changed in positive way and living without parents kind of made me more mature as I had to be my own manager. I had got many achievements; certificates, trophies and also a gold medal but in studies I was still average and to e honest I never felt that because I was learning a lot more things and all those things were important for personality so I was okay and thankful for everything.

At the starting days we all new students were having thoughts like how will the period of six years pass but at the last I was how these six years passed like a blink of eye. Overall its was a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs but never stopped learning. All these six years I had one objective to get as much benefit as I cant from this environment. Made so many friends. enjoyed each and every day and learned how to improve in every situation.

FAREWELL PARTY.

Time passed so quick and suddenly the last day of APS came.. At the start of this time period I had never imagined that it would be such a hard time to leave APS. There is a really famous phrase in APS that “one has to go so that another come”. I understood the true meaning of this phrase at my last day of school. At the end I will just say APS will be never forgotten. I have my piece of heart there. APS was not my dream school but it made my dreams come true.

#once_an_abbottonian_always_abbottonian