Lockers

Now I'm going to talk about lockers, because at my school, all secondary students have lockers to keep their books in and everyone has to use their lockers frequently. It is important to keep your locker tidy, because if you have it untidy, you will be double the time in your locker to take out your books. You can also decorate your locker with fotos, pictures, magnets and other things, so it is personalized and truly yours. You can not write on your locker with permanent markers, because the person who has your locker in the future will not like to have their locker written all over with something they can't rub off.

Lockers can be dangerous too, because you can get confused and get out a book you don't need, or forget to get something or even forget to go to your locker to get the books you need for the next classes. You should go to your locker in the morning before going to class (get the books for the first three subjects), at the begining of breaktime (leave the books for the first three subjects and get the books for the next three subjects), at the begining or end of lunchtime (leave the books of the previous three subjects and get the books for the last two subjects) and at the end of the day (leave the books for the last two subjects and get the books you need for homework or studying). This is an example of an organized way to use your locker, and the method almost everyone uses, but if you can think of another organized way to use your locker, you are free to use your way. You can't use your locker between classes (you'll be late) or in the middle of break or lunchtime (I don't know why...).

Opening your locker can be tricky too, because you have a special combination you need to remember to open it, the combination has two numbers and you should NEVER give your combination to another person, not even your best friend, because the person that you gave your combination to can open your locker or tell your combinaton to other friends that can open your locker. You can think: so what's wrong with my friend opening my locker? Well, you can't trust anyone and your friend may steal things from your locker or make it untidy. Maybe it is only for a joke, but you won't think its funny. Other people may steal from your locker because they like something you own that you have left in your locker, that is a warning: Don't leave iPods or mobile phones or money or other items that are precious to you in your locker. Maybe your friend would never steal your things, even not for a joke, but your friend might do it if you have a fight and they are really angry at you.

Each locker has a number and row. For example: 2165. That would mean your locker is in the second row (row one is at the top, row two at the center and row three at the bottom) and it is number 165. There are loads of lockers in our school, in the first and second floor, but not in the third floor, as it is smaller. The place your locker is in can be really good or bad, but it is a personal opinion, and anyway you can't choose your locker, the headmaster chooses what locker you have so you can't do much about it. Sometimes you have class in the third floor and you forget a book in your locker and if your locker is in the first floor, you have to run all the way down and up again so you don't have a detention (it has happened to me).

Some people share locker with their friends, because their friends have a locker that is really high and they can't reach it, or because they have it in a bad place. To share locker with someone you must trust that person a lot, because to share, both of you have to know the combination to be able to open it, so you are trusting your friend not to say the combination to anyone. That is the only bad thing of sharing a locker, except that you have less space for yourself and you have to agree on the decoration, you can't decorate it how you want because the other person might not like it.

You can keep something to write on in your locker to write down the tests and what homework you have that day, or you can simply write it on your Homework Diary, just don't forget the books in your locker!

Now you know all the things about lockers, that are very useful if you have a locker and they're not if you don't have one, but all knowledge is good!