A Terrible Beautiful Teacher's Day.

A Story by Rachel Roth

A review of what happened during teacher's day in my school.

Today was teacher's day in school. And might I just say that it was definitely a pleasurable experience. It started the night before the day had arrived. I was getting ready cups, forks, spoons and other cutlery which I was to bring to school the next day. It had been a long week for me in which I had driven around town to retrieve the items that I needed for the class party. When asked what I was to bring a week ago, I had insisted on cutlery due to being extraordinarily lazy to make something.

And so, the day began with me oversleeping, as usual. I woke up and stared at the alarm clock for a near 5 minutes. My brain just not comprehending that I was late for school. Immediately, I jumped out of bed and pulled on my clothes. Then, I quickly got the things ready and headed to school.

Unfortunately, of all the days I had to forget to bring something, it had to be today. I got to school mere seconds before the final bell-which signaled that I was late-rang. I rushed to the canteen to help my class prepare for the feast and was distracted by my friends, Elizabeth and Stephanie. I sat down with them to have a chat with them till my class noticed me and a girl, Kugenes, was sent out to retrieve the cutlery I had brought.

As soon as she asked me, I reached into my bag for the cutlery I had brought but to my dismay, found none! I dug deeper and deeper into my bag, praying that somehow, the cutlery just had to be in there. After searching for 5 minutes, I finally gave up and told Kugenes that I had not brought the cutlery, much to her and the rest of the class' horror.

That was when the teasing began. A fellow classmate, Mashitah, had teased me that we were all going to have to use our skirts as plates. I had felt utterly humiliated that moment and ducked in between Elizabeth and Stephanie to avoid being teased by my other classmates.

At one point, Elizabeth and Stephanie somehow managed to teleport away somewhere while I was talking to a friend. I searched continuously for them and after my 3rd round, found them talking with a teacher. I rushed to them immediately, ignoring the death stares that my classmates had given me. Thankfully, Stephanie took me away and hid me in her class while I sulked, calmed my mind down and wondered what to do about the situation.

During which, Stephanie felt hungry and asked "Can we buy food from the canteen now?" in which as if a light bulb had turned itself on, I had an idea.'I might have forgotten to bring the cutlery, but what if I borrowed some from the lunch ladies!' I thought. I asked Stephanie about whether the idea would work and her reply was "Well, maybe not paper plates and cups but maybe actual plates and cups."

As soon as we were allowed to head to the canteen to celebrate our class party, I instantly rushed to the lunch ladies and asked if we could borrow some plates and cups for our party. They were hesitant at first but after a lot of convincing, they agreed and I took the cups and plates as well as some cutlery and rushed back to the table where my class was wondering how we could eat without plates or cups or cutlery.

Peace was restored after that and teachers day-though a tragedy at first-turned out well with our class teacher even admiring my quick thinking. It was then I realized, even though that had to be the biggest mistake I had ever made, the day turned out well because I relaxed myself and thanks to Stephanie's perfect choice of words-however coincidental it might have been. We laughed, joked and even made fun of the teachers when we were given the chance.

And that, my friends, is the story of a terrible, wonderful teacher's day.

© 2014 Rachel Roth

Author's Note

What do you think of my first celebrative story. Was it boring, interesting, etc.? Do you think I should write stories like this more often?

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Nusquam Esse

Some of your syntax is a bit awkward, and the grammar's a bit off. I recommend reading this aloud, and seeing how well it flows. When we write something, we don't usually read it aloud a few times; but this is actually a very helpful thing to do. Awkward sentence structure will stand out much more when you read it aloud. While I do understand what you are trying to do with the whole 'terrible, wonderful' thing, the dual adjectives just seem weak to me. To have it as your title AND as a closing sentence; I can't help but feel that this would be more compelling if you could come up with something more gripping. The duality is good, but the way it is presented could be improved. Other than those minor gripes, you did a good job on this one. Other than syntax and the occasional word-choice improvement, the story is relatively error free. I do recommend checking punctuation, learn how to use semicolons and hypens in your work, and you can get sentences to flow better (although syntax seems more pressing). Don't forget that before starting quotations, you should have a comma. All in all, this takes a fairly insignificant day-to-day event, something which many people will be able to relate to in one way or another, and spins it into an enjoyable read.