Life as a Feddy Girl

This is the continuation of an older post:

"The Feddie Girl School Life..."

You know, just between you, me, and the gist in the "Feddie Girl" novel, the girls in this picture could have been Senior Zika (my bunkie), Senior Shade (my bunkie's friend), and Senior Anita (my dormitory prefect). Aren't they such darlings?

You think the fourth girl could have been me, with the grinning teeth and cute freckles?

You wish! Haha...

Jeez! Was I bestowed with this many freckles in the novel? Oh, well... 

Hey, guess what you get when you're thirteen? Freckles! Lol!

All right, back to the gist.

So we have successfully established a couple of things about Feddy Girls:

1. Living the Feddy life involves a lot of spunk and hard work.

2. Feddy Girls are a unique make of ladies who take pride in themselves, and would jump through hoops to maintain their Feddy status.

You know, right from the first day I stepped foot in a Nigerian Federal School (reluctantly, at first), I've always wondered what it really meant to be a "Feddy Girl." After spending several weeks in the dormitory of  a Feddy School, surrounded by many other female students, the realization suddenly hit me:

Uniqueness.

That's it! The ultimate aim of any Feddy Girl is to be set apart in the midst of other females. I realized early on that this was a thing of status. To be regarded as a Feddy Girl is a highly-regarded status earned by hard work, ingenuity, dedication, and merit. It starts, first of all, with being enrolled in a Nigerian Federal School, definitely, but involves a whole lot more.

You would expect, of course, for all students enrolled within a given school at a certain period of time to look, act, or speak alike in a broad sense per se, right? Sure! But this is hardly the case with students enrolled in Feddy schools. You see, it's all about uniqueness. Feddy Girls are generally alike, yes, but at the same time, they are really very unique in their own individual way. That, in my ultimate understanding, is what truly earns them the prestige of being Feddy Girls.

Please don't grill me on how many months of critical observation it took to arrive at this eureka-like conclusion. Lol! But, think about it. You'll know I'm right.

Okay, so ask yourself, "What makes a female student enrolled in a Nigerian Federal school a Feddy Girl?"

Here's an idea...

Imagine you're a student about to return to boarding school after the long holidays, and you need to equip yourself with a pair of school sandals. Brown, flat sandals is the norm for all secondary schools in Nigeria, isn't it? Okay, so what you and most other students would surely look like something depicted below:

So, you think a Feddy Girl would return to school with feet encased in these kind of sandals? Uh-uh, not Feddy Girls. What you have above does not quite capture the Feddy spirit--every Feddy Girl knows that. So, instead of the above, be prepared to be wowed by the creative shopping spirit Feddy Girls are endowed with. Take a look a the sandals below:

Ahah! Now we're talking! ...Ehm, forgive the Ahah! expression, thought I'd borrow it from my form master ;) You know the likes of him--teachers who like to give same expression every couple of sentences. Mr. Dubem's his name, and he's a nice guy, really, even with the lazy eye, lack of height, and Ahah! thingy. Lol!

Anyway, I believe you're now getting my drift about the uniqueness of Feddy Girls.


Another idea...


How about foot slippers to complement those interesting-looking day-wears we talked about in the last blog, huh? If you think any Feddy Girl will allow her feet be caught in any flip-flop looking like what's in the picture below, you definitely need to start churning out more thoughts.

The flip-flops above are a definite no-no to Feddy Girls. Gosh, get a load of the flower-patterned print, and the stripped ones hanging from a clothesline... Lol! Not that there's anything wrong with them. It's just that they're not quite suited to the taste of Feddy Girls--far from it, actually.
What Feddy Girls would rather strut around the dormitories in will certainly look more like what's in the picture below:

And the more daring Feddy Girls will definitely have the audacity to tout something like the ones given below around the dormitory.

 
These slippers, of course, would have set them back some serious cash, but hey, who cares; so long as it represents, right? Yup, right!
Seriously, I really do know a senior student who returned to school with something like the one in the last picture above. Totally! Lol!

Okay, so that almost completes the boarding school attire: School uniforms, day-wears, school sandals, and dormitory slippers. So how about we pick this up next time with games-wear?
Yeah, you know, games-wear--the outfit for gym and sports? How creative do you think Feddy Girls are with that?

Just stick around to find out.

...And don't miss grabbing a copy of the Feddie Girl novel by Nona David. Available at Amazon.com and from the publisher: Bernard Books Publishing

The novel is also available in Nigeria. See https://bernardbooks.com/gpage1.html for details of where/how to purchase a copy.


Feddie Girl Book 2 also coming soon! Stay tuned.


Lotta Luv,

Carlotta

The Feddie School Life...

Being a Feddy Girl and living the Feddy school life is not as easy as one may envision. In truth, you need to have lived the life in order to fully understand what it entails.

You see, Feddy Girls always need to "represent." And by this, I mean to always portray the full potential of their Feddiness at all times.

Every Feddy Girl understands this.

"Aren't Federal schools just like any other boarding school?" you ask in a perplexed manner, peering at me with those cute eyes of yours.

Of course not! Feddy Girls are different, distinct in their manner, choice of attire, way of speaking, and general comportment. At least the female students of Nigerian Federal schools are.

The thing is, Feddy Girls take pride in who they are; always seeing the best in themselves--an attitude that lasts well after they leave the boarding school, I must say.

And so goes the saying: Once a Feddy Girl, always a Feddy Girl. 

"So what makes Feddy Girls so different?" You ask this question while considering whether to sit or stand, not knowing if my argument holds water.

Well, I'll let you be the judge of that. But first, you gotta hear me out. Deal?

Okay, here we go...



1. School Uniforms

All Nigerian Secondary Schools require their students be unified by a uniform that serves as a signature or symbol of the schools primary colors, which also helps identify students of the school anywhere at any given time.

Now, a school can choose the primary uniform colors of say, White Blouse and Black Skirt, and one would expect the finished look to appear as shown in these photos:

"Right," you agree. "That's what I'd certainly expect of a school uniform."

Exactly!

But, you see, even though the above is what is expected, it's definitely not what you'd get from a Feddy Girl.

Because students are allowed to make their own uniforms at home, what they'd finally come up with will still be the same "Black Skirt and White Blouse" stipulated by the school, only instead of drab and dowdy, the Feddie Girls would spice things up a bit.
The final outcome would be something you'll swear you've seen on a mannequin posed behind a dress-shop window somewhere. Just like in the photo below:

Lol!!! Okay, I exaggerated a little, but lose the high-heels, belt, and handbags and you'll arrive at the final picture. Or may be... Oh well, you get the idea. Moving on.


2. School Day-Wear

Just like the uniforms, every boarding school also issues day-wears to student boarders, and stipulates the color, design, cloth material, etc, that goes into making them. Some schools even base the colors for the day-wears on the colors of the school houses or dormitories the students belong to.

"Fine," you retort. "I can see how that makes sense." You finally decide I have a point to my whole Feddy angle and take a seat.

"Left over pizza's in the refrigerator," I inform you, before getting back to the gist.

Okay, where most boarding school students are made to trot around in a boring one-color check material, Feddy Girls, on the other hand, get to sample fashionable day-wears. Truth be known, same design is supposed to be the norm in any boarding school, but who pays attention to day-wear rules?

Certainly not Feddy Girls!

The day-wear designs many Feddy Girls return to school with will definitely pop your eyes out.
The ones with pretty legs make the skirts short.
Those with nice figures make the bodice clingy.
Tall girls introduce a split down the front, back, side, you name it--basically anywhere on the skirt that'll allow maximum showcasing of their long limbs as they glide about.
As for the busty girls--oh, jeez!--let's not even go there. Thank you!

At the end of the day, whereas the "issued day-wear design" is supposed to look like a grand-mother nightgown made entirely out of checkered material, what you'd get from a typical Feddy Girl will look as in photos below:

Cute, right? Told you so. Feddy Girls are just amazing. Lol!

"Carlotta, is that you in the photo?" you ask, all wide-eyed with awe. "Long, curly, brown hair; blue blouse for your House color; preening in front of a mirror?"

"Yeah, right... You wish!" I smile impishly and refuse to say anything more on the subject. Moving on.

"Hey, Carly, do I hear your mom calling?" you say, giving me a pointed look. 

Er... Oh yeah, it's almost dinner time. I totally forgot. Guess I'll pick up this gist next time with Feddy Girls and foot wears, so stick around.

...And don't miss the Feddie Girl novel by Nona David. Available from the publisher: Bernard Books Publishing


Feddie Girl Book 2 also coming soon!


Lotta Luv,


Carlotta