By: Lubnah
Abdulhalim
THE MEMOIRS OF SCHOOL LIFE
School life is one of the most interesting
phases that we go through. It is where we grow up, learn to be independent,
become who we are as adults, form our personalities, create friendships that
could last forever and the memories that you would live to tell to your
children. Living through school life has proved to be quite tough especially
with the
In every class we don’t miss the early
bird. The one who is always the first to come to school and however early you
try to wake up you would still find him/her there. This fellow isn’t really
interested in school as such but what actually brings him/her early to school
is the homework that he hasn’t done. He would struggle with the homework just
until the arrival of the second person in class. He would quickly borrow the
book and do copy pasting without even bothering to look how correct the answers
are.
Then of course, there is always that late
comer who is always late. Come rain, come sunshine he/she would still come
after the class started. A child like this one, you would expect that they have
exhausted all the sleep they needed but funny enough, he/she is still the one
to dose in class. Most of the times, he is untidy and the homework is not done.
Just one word to describe them; lazy!
Another interesting character is that
intelligent child who would always perform highly in the exams but whenever you
go seek help from them, they would always have an excuse not to help. He/she is
clearly selfish with the knowledge they have and they would always prefer to
study alone. During the exams seasons, you would always hear them complain of
having not read ANYTHING and they would whine and panic so much to the extent
of making you panic too. Funny though, when the results are out the difference
between your result and theirs is incomparable. They could be topping all
subjects while you are still playing safe at the average marks.
One of the characters that rarely miss out
in every class is the one providing us with classic comedy; the one who doesn’t
perform so well but still has all the stories to crack you up in all the
lessons. Sometimes it isn’t even the right time to crack up a joke but they
would still do it, however much inappropriate it may seem. They are always the
class favourite. They create a lot of mischief and give the teacher’s a very
hard time. Their performance may vary for there are those who were naughty but
still performed excellently while others still performed awfully in their
examinations.
I personally would never forget the ones
that would give us a free drama to watch when it was their time to be punished
by the teacher. The circus they do is just hilarious. They would scream even
before the stick touches their skin and they would twist and turn round and
round like a monkey in a cage. By the time they get the first stroke, almost
five minutes have been wasted. This sometimes would just make the class teacher
give up and let him/her go.
Another character that we all had to hate
is the class teacher’s right hand side man. The one who would be very quick in
reporting every small or tiny mistake we did which included you being a
noisemaker just because you asked for a rubber from the next desk. They always
yearned for the teacher’s praise and love and worked very hard to attain it by
crucifying others and sometimes they weren’t even the class prefect or monitor.
The list could go on and on from the quiet
and timid ones, to the bookworms, to the hardworking ones, to the ones who had
two faces; the very noble one towards the teachers while they were in fact
silent killers, to the ones who jut sat back and enjoyed all the dramas created
by these different personalities, to the noisemakers whom without, the class
would just seem abnormal, to the very aggressive ones, to the attention seekers
etcetera etcetera. Without forgetting the kind of teachers we had varying from
the very boring ones, to the very harsh ones, to the popular and likeable ones,
to the story tellers that would spend half the lesson just narrating, to the
lazy ones who would even drag their words, to the ones that were just a pain in
the neck being very sarcastic, pessimistic and like a sadist in everything and
to the teachers that dedicated all their time and even their free time to
ensure the children have all they need. We all know in which category we fall
in the above and though we may have had a tough time through but you will all
agree with me, there is a time you just sit back and remember all these and
laugh alone. Maybe it was worth it after all, for without all these experiences
we wouldn’t be who we are today.
