His Only Girl

Chapter 7

Kai’s P.O.V

- few weeks passed –

Year 2 has started for us! The first week of school has been smooth for Char and I, but it has been tough to wake up so early everyday as I take the shuttle bus to school in order to save money.

However, this semester we have different class because we chose a different specialisation track from each other. My classes have been quite smooth, I only am afraid in doing presentations but so far it has been fine. I keep trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and with the encouraging comments from my teachers pushes me to do better in class.

I was on the way home after class, when I suddenly thought of how Char and I’s first day of being Year 2 in school.

*first day of school*

Char and I always take the first shuttle bus when we were in year one. However, after we chose different specialization courses. We have different schedules, for Char I still remembered how she spend her first day (haha).

Charlene’s P.O.V

It is the first day of being year 2 as a poly student! I feel so shag, I reached school especially early as I took the first or second bus with my good friend. When I reached school, I bid goodbye with her before heading to my new class.

When I reached class and settled down, I feel so comfortable and peaceful as no one is in class this early. However, I met the lecturer for the first time when I came so early (haha) he said; Hi! What’s your name!

I replied: My name is Charlene! (smiled). When I wanted to reply, I had my earpiece in my ear, I had earrings on. I almost pulled hard on my earring, the feeling was so scary (haha) I was thinking; the lecturer is so cute and friendly at the same time has a cute filipino accent.

He said; You need to ask your classmates to write their names on the whiteboard when they come in, Okay? I replied: Okay! He said; Do you know all your classmates? I replied: Nope, I only know a few of them. He replied: Oh! They are from your class in year One, right? I replied: Yes! (smiled)

He replied: Okay, I need to go out for a while now. I will be back later! Remember to do what I ask you to do okie! I nodded my head than he left, I went back to my seat and continued to watch my videos and eat my bread.

For the assignment of the day!  It was about designing our own three-minute presentation about the architect that we chose from the design statement. I was thinking; It’s just the first day... I have Monday blues ☹. Luckily, I ate my bread just now, I won’t need to go down to squeeze with the crowd to buy food.

After he explained, we started our presentations individually. I was thinking; I feel so sleepy, I could have slept a little bit longer, but I chose to take the first bus with my good friend, Lia. I felt so dead...

After the class started on their presentations for a while, the lecturer; Mr Tapia. He went around checking the progress of our presentations, to be honest; I feel that he is a really friendly lecturer, he won’t not get angry so easily and most importantly he has a lot of patience when he is explaining something in class.

When he checked mine, he said; your presentation slides are quite well done (smiled) I replied; but is this slide too short? He replied: because your presentation is only three minutes, so it is best for it to be short, but you can remove about the buildings that she designed.

I replied: okay! (showed him the rest of the slides) he replied: the slides that you showed about her major projects that she completed, you can just list down what is special about the projects that you chose (smiled)

I said ; okay sure! He carried on with checking other people’s presentation slides. My friend and I, we chose the same architect. When we were doing our slides, I realise that even though we are doing the same person our content is so different.

When we were done with our presentation slides, my classmates realise that the lecturer didn’t open the file for the class to submit. Our classmates didn’t bother to ask because they wanted to go home early (haha) they said; don’t ask! i want to go home early (smiling cheekily) because like he said if we do not submit on time we can just go home (haha)

When the lecturer came in, one of my classmate said; we didn’t submit my presentation slides because you haven’t open the submission file (haha) when the lecturer knew about it, it was so funny (haha) I can tell he was a little embarrassed.

He apologised quickly and said; how about let’s choose who goes first! We wrote our names on the board for a reason... However, in the end I was the last to present. The feeling sucks because I rather to present first than last...

By the time I waited for my turn, my mind already flew out of the window already (haha) I kept yawning and adjusting my spectacles because It keeps sliding... Monday blues has hit me real hard, my energy was so low.

I panicked so hard when it was my turn because, my computer doesn’t have the cable to plug in the project. Internally, I really wanted to cry because I delayed for a while causing the class to wait...

When I presented, I felt so low in energy at the same time I had zero confidence in presenting alone and I felt that my presentation slides were not good. At the start, I felt that what I said was good but I knew that I couldn’t hit the three-minute mark because i know that my content wasn’t enough and the last few slides I skipped through fast as It was quite self-explanatory.

It was such a bad day for me, Monday blues... because on the way home, I felt that I looked so rough and shagged, my ear piece was almost spoiled than my ear was so pain because my spectacles cut me causing me to bleed.