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8 things all Irish kids secretly loved about going back to school

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Aug 27th 2015, 2:45 PM 8,115 1

IT’S NEVER BEEN cool to be excited about school, and some of us had to hide our joy at purchasing new uniforms, getting all the books, and settling in for a new school year.

We didn’t want to admit it, but we all secretly enjoyed the back to school prep. A lot.

1. Carefully wrapping books in brown paper

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Or whatever you were having yourself. But you can bet that no matter what covering you used, your books would be IMMACULATE.

2. Getting a new one of these bad boys

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The king of pens.

3. And these

$_12 Source: eBay

If your pencil case wasn’t food or drink-related, who even were you?

4. The first fresh page of a brand new copybook

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You almost wouldn’t want to write on it, would you? Ah go on then.

5. New. Shoes.

You wanted these fab yokes:

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You ended up with these:

shoe Source: BlogSpot

6. Showing off about your summer holidays

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Oh, this giant ridiculous pencil that I’m just going to bring in and put on my desk because it’s basically unusable? Got it in Majorca. Yeah. I was in Majorca.

7. Privately speculating on who you were going to sit beside

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You wanted to sit beside your best friend Michael, for sure, but it wouldn’t be so bad to sit beside Jessica, even though she’s a GIRL.

8. And trying to cadge a new lunch box out of your mam

IMG_3428 Source: Amazon

Even though you didn’t need it. Even though the matching flask would inevitably spill all over your school books in the second week. Still. You NEEDED IT.

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Valerie Loftus

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