While both of us had taken the caning silently, both of us had tears in our eyes, and in my case I could feel a tear trickling down my cheeks. As we left the staffroom the young female teacher was looking at us wide-eyed. On the way to class, we popped into the toilets and had a look at the damage. In both cases, it looked as though the skin was just about broken and we were going to bleed.
That was my last caning. The welts/bruises stayed on my backside for more than two weeks. When I had been caned before it was usually a 2 or 3-stroke caning and the welts/bruises stayed for a week or so.