Mary My Student

Episode 3

I sat down for a while waiting for Rita to show up but she didn’t. I don’t really know what was going on, why doesn’t she come anymore as she always does before the bell for dismissal goes I have started getting used to her coming into my office before school closes that I missed her.

Rita Dominic is my student, she is the only one I could call my heart’s lovely. At least she had shown that she is. Our closeness to each other is tastement to a crush albeit not a mutual crush.

I can still remember how I met her and it wasn’t through asking her out, the school regulations had put a stamp against student-teacher relationship as it encourages laziness on the student’s side and cheating on the teacher’s side. Plenty cases of unwanted pregnancy from the male teachers has caused the practice to be branded a crime which can cost the teacher a job. Also it was because of another case which two married teachers fought over a boy in SS one. This was one shameful thing almost made the school a laughing stock, so that made the school authority very strict on the issue. I met her in a totally different way.

Well it was when I gave my class an essay, that they should write on the topic” AN UNLIKELY ENCOUNTER.” I asked them to imagine meeting somebody they never expected to meet, how things went with them and how they ended up. I urged them to make it long and not some “wham bam thank you ma’am” story. As I wanted to see the novelist in them. I asked them to submit the first half of their essays for review so that I can see their progress and level of creativity. This had brought in an excited buzz with my students as I dismissed them home.

The following week I collected their notes for review and took it home and took my time poring over their notes, following the stories, looking for mistakes correcting some or highlighting it for the owner to do so. Many of them were quite creative like the one of the student told how he met president Donald Trump his essay was exciting and almost convincing only that his essay contained a lot of geographical errors and also the inability to tell the weather at the time of the month. Maybe he forgot or didn’t know that not every time is winter in Washington DC. So I suggested a map and a globe for him in order for it to help him more in his work.

Some others were quite trash, from those I suspect were the copiers in my class. Unfortunately for them, this wasn’t something they could copy from their colleagues.

Like the one girl narrated on how she met Satan on her way to school and Satan stopped her and tried to woo and ask her out, so she slapped him and pushed him away, that satan was angry and disappeared with her to hell and when they got there she discovered that Satan does not have money, that he is a beggar in hell and that there is no fine girl in hell. Satan does not even have bicycle talk less of motor, so she disgraced in front of his family and then Satan tried to beg and she removed knife and was about to chuke him to death when she reappeared back to earth. This got me rolling on the ground with laughter. So I set her book aside and focused on the others. Everything was going smoothly until I got to her book. Her essay went thus ” My Unlikely encounter happened on my first day in the secondary school, not my starting though, I had to change school so as it was I was beginning my SS 2 class in a new secondary school. I knew nobody but I was sure I am going to make some friends.