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The First Day
of the Accelerated Class
Monday, August 27th 2012
That was the first day I went to school after the long Eid’s holiday. I was still in grade 7, to be exact in my old class 7C. I arrived at school at 06.00 in the morning. And the class started at 06.45. I followed the lesson one by one until the break time came. One of my friends asked me, “Vir, have you done your homework?” “Homework? Is there homework today?” I was surprised. I didn’t know what the homework was for today. And in my mind, I imagined that my teacher would be angry with me, because I was a new student but I already made a mistake. I felt worry and my sweat came out from my skin. “Yes! Don’t you remember the religion homework that the teacher gave during ‘Pondok Ramadhan’?” my friend said. “No. What homework?” I asked. “You must fill the fasting and tarawih check list,” she reminded me. “I don’t know that. When did the teacher tell it?” I felt so embarrassed. I didn’t listen to what the teacher said. My legs began to shake. “I’ve said it before,” she said, “during ‘Pondok Ramadhan’,” she repeated. Astaghfirullah.. I didn’t know about it. So, I asked everybody in the class, “Have you done your homework?” All of my friends said, “Of course” or “Sure” or “Yes”. O Allah, help me, please… I didn’t know that there was homework for today… I just sat on my seat with a pale face. The second break time came. I felt my hands were cold, my face was pale, and my legs were shaky. After the break, that was the time for the religion subject. I opened my lunchbox, but I closed it again because my appetite had gone. And then my friend asked me to go to the Cooperative Room with her. I agreed with her because I had to buy socks. On the way to the Cooperative Room, one of my teachers called us. She wanted us to call the head of 7E class. So I walked to the second floor to call the head of 7E class. But, there was a central voice from the speaker. That’s my teacher’s voice. “For those of you who joined the accelerated class test, please read the announcement about the result of the test. Thank you.” I didn’t care about the announcement because I thought it was the announcement for the heads of classes to go to the information room. Many students went down from the second floor. I was confused, so I asked one of the students who went down from the second floor. “Excuse me, what announcement is it?” I asked. “It’s accelerated class test result announcement,” she answered and went down. In hurry, I went down. The stairs were very crowded. I ran to the information board. I hoped, my name wouldn’t be written in the list of students who passed the test. Why? Because I had already had many friends in 7C. I felt better there. And I read the list from bottom to top. At number of 15, there was a name beginning with SAVIRA. Same spelling as my name, S-A-V-I-R-A. But, when I read the second name, it wasn’t me. I read up and I found it! I found my name there! I’m in number 10. The result was arranged by the class. So the name of students from 7A came first, and then 7B, 7C, and so on until 7I. I was surprised. I didn’t expect to pass the test because I didn’t do the test with wills. :P. (Don’t follow this!) There were 18 students that passed the test from 51 students that joined the test. All of my friends congratulated me. I felt happy. But besides the happy feeling, I felt a little bit sad because I had to leave my old class. All students that passed the test had to go to a new class on the third floor. So I walked to the new class bringing my bag. I left my old class. When I arrived at the new class, there were many accelerated seniors, to be exact 23 students. They told us more about accelerated class. And we didn’t have to go to the old class. It meant, I didn’t have to submit my religion homework! Alhamdulillah... Thank you, Allah! In this class, I found many friends that had the same characters as I do. So I adapted easily. I felt free. I enjoyed the introduction event happily. Introduced myself, knowing the other student, and knowing about accelerated class. In my heart, I promised to myself, I would never do the same mistake like this. *) There were moral lessons for me and you all who read this recount. Here they are:
Okay, I think that’s all. Thanks for reading ^_^, and don’t forget to follow my twitter @savira_dienanta. Bye! |
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