If there’s a term that immediately identifies someone who attended St. Aloysius’, it must be “yellow door”.

It’s the same thing at San Anton – we used to call it an “after school” to distinguish it from lunchtime detentions. Never heard of anybody getting punished over the weekends though.

There is in St Aloysius College speak.

There is for old Aloysians and to distinguish from mid-day break detention, Wednesday or a Sunday detention.

Afterschool yes, yellow door more probable but sending him home to miss lessons never. And then to be forgiven on the same day. Haha. Shows he never got an afterschool. What a fake.

[Daphne – What’s this business with the ‘afterschool’? It’s even appearing in newspaper reports. There’s no such word. It’s a DETENTION.]

There’d be lining up after mid-day break to get back into class. That’s when everyone would be at their very worst.

I remember some emphasis on having an undervest, in his case it must have been essential for support and decency.

Next would be the grey socks and black shoes.

The real problems started with the length of hair.

The number of times Guido Friggieri told me to get a haircut, thankfully, I was captain.

Muscat must have looked ridiculous, the shirt, skin tight, navel showing between its buttons.

The vest being an obligatory part of the uniform is new to me too.

What I can recall is that we used to be scared stiff of Salvu Mifsud, though he was always fair with us.

What I also can recall is that our twat of a Prime MInister was not very popular at school and I remember him getting thumped a couple of times by other students. Minn dejjem kien rasu kbira.