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"I can never do anything right.I suppose I shall go on being treated as "that boy" till I am 50 years old." (Winston, aged 18 to his mother)
It was decided that he visit the Sandhurst Military College and become an Army Officer. Winston tried twice to pass the entrance examination. He failed.
Then he visited a \"crammer\" at school, which is specialised in intensive study in order to pass examinations. Winston managed it. So he could enter the school. When the course at Sandhurst started in 1893, Churchill (now 18 years old) began his training as an army officer. He was a brilliant student at Sandhurst′s. His best examination subjects were tactics, fortifications and riding.
\"In all twelve years I was at school, no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.\"
\"Personally I am was always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.\" (Winston Churchill)
At the age of twenty he became a professional officer. Although in Europe was peace, Churchill managed it to take part in five campaigns:
in Cuba, in India, in the Sudan and in South-Africa.
Winston´s character changed completely. On the one hand is to say his father died and on the other hand is to say, that he became a keen personality. A declaration for this is, that Winston found his lovely occupation: war!
He was an strategist, politician and diplomat and he was born to waged war. He found his luck in war but nobody could understand this.
In Churchill´s youth he spent a lot of time in war zones and many times he came under fire. For a young person it is terrible, but Churchill found in war his fulfiment.
Because of this terrible time he began to smoke cigars. In later life he was rarely photograohed without his famous cigars.
Later in his lifetime he read many books and so he began to write, too.
And not only writing, playing Polo was also one thing that he love to do. Even with a broken arm he won a cup.
To financiate his war time he had to earn a lot of money. Winston wrote newspaper articles an books, his masterpiece was :" The River war". His books were written in a brilliant style that in his later life he was even awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
On the outbreak of the South African War he went out as war correspondent for the London Morning Post.
Within a month of his arrival, he was taken to prison in Pretoria, Churchill made a dramatic escape and travelled back to the fighting front in Natal. The whole land spoke about him.
New elections in 1900 made it possible for him to enter parliament. Everybody was fascinated about him.
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