Carapichaima Snr Comp has a scholarship winner

Sariyah Lachman learnt that she was the recipient of a Further Additional Scholarship on Saturday morning when her father made his daily trek to get the newspapers. “He came back and told me that I had won a scholarship and my mother just started crying,” she recalled in an interview. “We are all really happy about it,” Sariyah went on. “I now feel more confident in myself than ever. “If I hadn’t gotten this scholarship my parents would have had to get a loan to pay for my tuition.”

The 19-year-old student of Carapichaima Senior Compre-hensive, who attained three Grade As in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics and a Grade D in General Paper, will be starting her BSC Programme in Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of the West Indies (UWI) on Monday. She credits her success to hours of study and very little socialising. “I didn’t really make myself available for anything, except maybe for my family,” she said. “I spent most of my time studying, and I am not much of a limer. “I used to study between five to nine hours a day.”

Sariyah noted that her Physics teacher, Samlal Manny, was extremely happy to learn of her achievement, since Physics was her weakest subject. “We did a lot of additional work during lunch and I took extra lessons in Chemistry and Physics. Maths was my best subject.” Sariyah expressed her gratitude to God and to her parents, especially her mother, whom she describes as her “rock.” “My life growing up was very hard, and she was always there for me,” she stated. “She is the one who held my hand through the difficult times.”