I slept back again in my cozy comforter and woke up by the car engine of our neighbour. Which one, I'm not sure. I woke up, since I'm pretty sure I'll slept in if I didn't do so. Especially when I still have the flu. I woke up and brush my teeth, pray and went downstairs. I ate some Nasi Lemak. Never will I get bored of it. I felt kinda thirsty, so I drank some milk. Which is a mistake, cause my throat aches.
I went upstairs back again, took a long, steamy shower and get ready for school. I was kinda late, so I have to sprint. I made it just in time for French. Miss Matthews announced that we are having an assembly on the next period, which Miss Gray had told us a thousand times the weeks before.
French class today was kinda loud, which is unusual. And Miss Matthews have to do the shush shush thing that Miss Gray always did in our class, which is rare. We did some revision and soon later the bell rang. Indicates the second period and that we have to gather for the assembly.
I walked to the auditorium without bothering to put away my French books, since I've seen a couple of students got scolded because of it. I arrived at the Gym compund, where the Year 7s gathered. I walk to the place my class always gather and saw Esin. I gave her a hug, which is rare. Levent gave me an elbow - our type of knuckles. For some reason, it's as if everyone accept me. And I enjoyed it a lot.
I don't know what happened, but Adna fell over and Ceren tried to keep her from falling and Ceren accidentally stepped on my foot. She asked me whether she did, but I said she don't. This doesn't really matter, just to show how words can't explain how the situation was. I liked it.
Just after Ceren helped Adna to stand still again, Mr Mill called our class to enter the Auditorium pass the Gym. A couple of the girls told Mr Mill something, and for some reason Mr Mill laughed his face turns red. Which made me smile remembering I used to be that close to my teachers too. I miss them.
We walked to the Auditorium compound and Danica and Deyana passed us a sheet of paper before we enters the Auditorium. We climb the stairs and fill in the row, second last from the back. I sat in the middle of the row, with Esin by my left and Josef by my right. All of the classes came in and Miss Gray put her hands up, so we could pay our attention to her.
It was kinda weird, the feeling. The feeling when all of the Year 7s in the auditorium, the teachers, raises their hands. It's like that unity kind of feeling in the Hunger Games. Eventhough Miss Gray made us do this a hundred times in our class, it feels weird, it feels different.
I remember Miss Gray said "It's as if it was yesterday we held our first assembly. And most of you looked scared". I thought they were gonna laugh, like they usually do. But they kept in silence, like they felt it too. Even when they tried hard to hide it.. It's my opinion, though. I don't know.
Miss Gray explained about how the weeks going to be and informed us about an excursion after headstart. It doesn't really matter because I don't think I'm going, I don't think I wanna go. They gave us another copy of the exams time table which Danica and Deyana already gave us, the last few weeks calendar, and the the permission form for the excursion. The bell rang and we went outside for recess.
I spent recess with my sisters, eating our snack pack Ibu bought us. Share our stories like we always did, comment on some CCs, and spent our time like the world is ours. Okay, I exaggerated too much. Anyway, the bell rang and I know for sure, of course, I had Technology after.
I don't know why my heart is so heavy to go to Technology classes. It's not like I don't like to learn everything about it. Maybe because of the teacher? I don't know. I don't hate him. It's just my thought that bothers me too much.
I walked to our Technology class and found Angel already waiting outside the door. Weird, usually I'll come first. I pushed aside the useless thought in my head. We said hye to each other and it was that usual awkward silence we always had. The awkward silence we tried to deny by looking at the things around us. We spot Mr Stewart walking with a teacher, and they talked for ever until the bell rang.
A short boy I somehow adore his smile, came to us and whispered something to Angel, and Angel complained about how Mr Stewart took forever to open the door. Oh, they are close. A couple minutes later, Mr Stewart stopped talking with that teacher. He walked to us and opens the door.
We weren't doing any exam revisions, cause he said we're gonna check whether our new school address works. Mine doesn't work, so I have to reset my password. After I reset my password and a couple other student who have the same problem did it too, he said we have to compose an email and send it to the other member of Roxburgh College, since we can only send to them.
Mr Stewart came to me and taught me how to do it, eventhough I knew how to do it, I act dumb and followed his instructions. He asked me to send it to my sister, which sounds funny because it seems like every teacher knew that I always hangout with my sister. How they know that, I don't know.
After sending a couple emails to Angel, Esin, Lylah and my sisters, the bell rang and it was time for Maths. I walked to our classroom and Lylah joined me, but then she goes to someone else I don't even recognize. I reached to my class and saw Ben. I walked to him just because he's at the end of the line, and he said "Hye" which is very very rare. He never even look at me that often.
Later, Esin came so my focus was on her. The door waas finally opened by Mr McPhail but our class was arranged differently by the class before us. We spent sometime arrange it back to normal again and continue on our recent topic - Algebra.
Esin start saying she's a something I can't remember but she said "When I grow up I want to be a puppy" Then suddenly she said "No, I want to be a potato" I laughed and said "I would want to be a potato too" And she said "Then, we can be Potato Sisters!" And that's when we officially become "The Potato Sisters". I love her so much right now, as much as I love potatoes.
Miss Gray came 5 minutes before the bell goes, like she usually do. So, we moved to our so called "Learning Teams". We realised that half the class was gone. They had music, oh. The bell rang a minute later and half of the class walks in. I write down the Learning Intention and opened my book.
We had our last Spelling Test, and Omar literally copied me. I just let him, because if I dont, he's gonna copy me anyway. He gonna say "Wallah I don't copy you" which I know is a lie, so I don't want him to swear to God over something small and lie about it. We both got 10 over 10.
My throat aches, but I don't want to let out a cough. Since I know it will at least let out more than a cough. I tried to keep it in, until my eyes went all teary. I hold it in until I don't feel like coughing anymore. I wiped the tears of me and with the flu I had, Omar thought I was crying.
He asked "Are you okay?" and paused. And he asked again, "Why are you crying?" With that cold tone, I know that he don't care. I said it's nothing, but with the look he gave me, for some reason, it seems like he care. I don't know, I don't care. I wasn't even crying for real. Well, maybe a bit.
Awhile later, a Mr came to our classroom. I thought he was gonna call out the names of people who got detention, but he didn't. He didn't even say why. My name was first. Which doesn't bothers me. Accept for the fact that he calls me "Rozaiman" which never is my name. Everyone stares.
He called Josef next, then everyone calmed down. They're not in trouble, it's no big deal. He called a couple other students and asked us to come with him outside of the classroom, to the special pathway only teachers have access to use. It have red carpet everywhere and a large printer every per meter, I guess. The pathway was warmer than the classroom, maybe the heater's on.
The reason he called us was because of French. Ohhh. He said whether we want to change to Italian. I have no idea why. Why would they do that? They aren't many people in French class, what if only two or three people choose not to change to Italian?
Anyway, I told him I'm not gonna be here next year, and I asked him whether I should decide it too. But he couldn't answer me, since Farrah was so happy she screamed under her palms cupped to her mouth, and jumped as if there was a fire underneath her. And she accidentally pushed open a door of a class behind her because of her jump. So, that Mr asked everyone to go back to class, except me.
I asked him again, and he said "So, you're not gonna be here next year. Where are you moving to?" I answered "Back to my country". I don't think it's necessary to tell which country because it won't even matter, aye? But he asked me another question "So, where is it?" So I just answered "Malaysia". And he wrote "Malay" besides my name on the sheet he was holding.
She asked me whether I've told Miss Gray, and I said yes. And he finally let me go back in. Miss Gray smiled at me, I'm not sure why. They start doing their Exam Goals, so I tried to catch up. After listing down a couple ideas on Tips and Study Skills, Miss Gray gave us our Portfolio Tasks grades and checks our last homework task.
Omar passed my folder of Portfolio Tasks and I had a look. I got 4/5 for my English Portfolio Task and 4.5/5 for my Humanities. I have a look at Omar's and he got 3/5 for his English and 4/5 for his Humanities. Which kinda unfair. I tried my best and I got kinda the same as him?
That's the disadvantage of being me, people always expect me to do the best, when I can't. Now I understand why Adna don't really show how smart she is. Anyway, Adna was so funny. She always the one who cheer the class with her funny reaction and opinion. I really hope I could do that too, when I know I can't.
Today Miss Gray said that our exams result won't matter to our interim report, and she said, "So, it doesn't matter if you're dumb?" And Miss Gray replied "Adna, please keep your opinion to yourself". Which kinda funny and I think Miss Gray kinda fed up with her already.
The other "incident" was that a bird flew to our class window and Adna said "Miss! There's a bird in our classroom!" And the bird flew. Everyone laughs cause the bird wasn't even in the classroom. I really miss the ability to talk without even worrying whether it'll matter to everyone else, like I used to. Sigh.
The bell rang and it was time for lunch. I hangout with Kak Za, and Kak Za only. Because Melek wasn't here. We bought some dim sims and ate it in the middle of the yard. I asked Kak Za whether Miss Savic - I meant Mrs Redman came, because she told me she'll have Science before.
She said she wasn't here, and she got a substitute teacher. I hope she will not come tomorrow too. It's not that I don't like science, it's just that we have to do this Portfolio Task that we're not even sure that we have to do it, and she expected me to do the best poster ever. I know I can't so I hope she will not come so we don't even have to do it.
We drank some water and a couple minutes later the bell rang and it was time for the last period. We had Art. Nothing much really happened. We just finished up sketching and outlining our fairytale and paint it. I focused colouring my tinker bell too much my head felt like exploding. And still, the others artwork are better than mine.
Miss Springbett let us pack up early and when we finished packing up, we still have more than 5 minutes left. So, Miss Springbett gave us some free time. Some of the boys take risk by running away when the teacher's not looking. I nearly ran away too, but being a good student I am, I don't.
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