A student recalls the sheer ecstacy of winning a competition with her schoolmates after frantic days of writing, debating, tests and yes, some partying too!
WHO would have thought an academic event could get so popular? There were teachers organising their troops, old scholars greeting each other and “newbies’ like us who were too busy marvelling at the sheer size of the crowd. The music was booming through the speakers and the opening ceremony hadn’t even started yet. This was the Global Round of the World Scholar’s Cup.