Boredom

I gazed dreamily at the blurred figures in front of me.

Words like “excellence”, “laurels” and “privilege” creep past me.

I was remotely aware of someone making a speech. The people around me showed little signs of life besides occasionally making a few sarcastic comments. So far the first day of school hasn’t been very optimistic. As more people started to drone on and on and on …….. I started to entertain myself by rhythmically drumming the chairs.

After a rather murderous look from a teacher, I was reduced to silently counting the number of tiles in the ceiling and once I had firmly established that count as 2000, I started a thumb war of epic proportions. Time passed …

One minute…

Ten minutes…….

Twenty minutes………

Boredom pushed me over the edge, and I decided to abuse my power as an N.S.S volunteer. As I went to boss over the small kids, this bloke walked in. Meet my new class teacher (staying mum on this).The rest of the day was even more uneventful with more speeches, introductions, felicitations and even more speeches. At the end of the day I somehow managed to walk out with most of my brain cells intact. If this is anything to go by, I’m in for one hell of a year.

So to sum it all up, nothing much happened today.