Letters to the Editor

As an IC students once you leave the gates of the school and you’re out in the world, you will encounter people who have heard of IC and those who have not. I found that there is a special group of people that know IC very well and that’s students of the American University of Beirut. That makes sense since we’re their next door neighbor. A lot of them don’t know the whole reason IC relocated from turkey and was placed adjacent to AUB was to serve as a prep school for the university so our history has been linked for a while. Even among the AUBites some don’t know IC especially if they are not Beirut residents and relocated to AUB to study and spent most of their time on the other side of the campus. However the AUBites that most definitely know IC are the residents of Kerr and Penrose.

Kerr and Penrose are the two men’s dorms located adjacent to IC and over look the IC fields. I remember our days as students out on the field playing soccer or practicing the discus or shotput in our green and white athletic gear. Some days were miserably cold, other days the whole class of teenagers didn’t want to be out playing sports but indoors sleeping or lounging on a bench snacking on a bag of chips. But we practiced on the field none the less.

The reason these dorm residents know about IC is because they would see us practice on the field. Sometimes it was fun. They would step out on their balcony and watch our soccer games, sometimes they would cheer or play music to set the mood or encourage us. The not so fun days were when the residents would decide to have some fun by tossing water or eggs from their balconies onto the field trying to get us. I was lucky enough to dodge the water and the eggs but not everyone was as lucky.

I am not sure if these shenanigans still go on. But I remember every time I played on that field that I kept an eye on the ball but I also kept checking behind my back to make sure an egg wasn’t flying towards me. We were all kids just having fun I guess, but if you’re out there walking or playing be careful you’ve been warned.

Mohamad Tassabehji, P.E (2004)