Wellwards' High

First Day Lesson: Our School does not give us Driver's License

We were literally waiting to hear her first words to us. But, our new class teacher; Miss Uvana Stellon showed no hurry in her actions. After she entered our classroom, sshe put her pinky handbag on her desk, and then slowly turned in our way. Her eyes caught every face one by one, through her butterfly-framed pair of spectacles and finally began to speak!

“Soo..., this is my class this year.” Although I thought she began to talk, it seemed she had not decided to continue. She looked all around the class once again, including the four walls, floor and outside views from windows, but luckily not in our faces this time.

“Hm, hm, hm..”

Time passed in minutes.No one uttered a word.

“Is she waiting for someone else to talk first?” I heard a boy in the front row whispered to James who was just next to him.

“I don't know, maybe.” James guessed.

“If she is, I’ll do it right now. It’s better than staying in this way.”

“Then try that out” Sally interrupted. The boy looked back suddenly at her, with a questioning look on his face.

“Okay sister, if you wish so.” He answered with a playful smile.

“Excuse me, Miss Uvana. Can I know something?”

“Yes, my dear boy?”

“Could you please tell me what subject you are going to teach us because I have a better taste in ‘Science’ than in ‘Silence’? He asked suddenly in a low voice, with an honest smile on his face. All the heads turned in his direction with surprisement. Some gasped. But, Miss Uvana Stellon showed no remarkable reaction.

“What’s your name, boy?” She questioned with a smile.

“ Jasper Roy Edison, ma’am”

“Hm..Now Mr.Edison, it’s better if you keep in your mind that getting a ‘license’ is not a subject we teach you in this school. Do you understand?” She asked, calmly.

Instantly the whole class was filled with giggling and laughing. Some girls were trying to smile with discipline, but many were not. James Hardy was in the first place out of all. Now I’m not going to tell you the way he does that, because it is something I can never explain with words. Miss Uvana Stellon was smiling too in her own way, and that made us all laugh more and more. She seemed to understand the situation hardly. Jasper Roy was standing in the middle, looking all around in a very innocent way, just as he could understand nothing too.

“Why are they laughing, Mr.Edison?” Miss Uvana asked him, pointing at us with her marker pen.

“I also can’t understand it, Miss Uvana.”

Her face expressed a bit horrid mood, but still, she was smiling(in a way).

“Why are you laughing children? It’s such a noise.” asked Mrs. Uvana, annoyingly.

“Miss, I think they had misunderstood the word ‘license’ as something different” said Jasper, in a clever way.

“Ooo..maybe, but I’m enough of that. Stop laughing…, kids.” She ordered.

Then it came to an end. What remained was some little gigglings.

“That’s not a very good behavior, I saw just now..Why are you still standing, sit down Mr.Edison?” Miss Uvana groaned.

“Laughing without any reason! Are you all psycho, kids?” For a second, her face was totally filled with frustration. Sally was still rubbing her eyes filled with tears.

“Other teachers said to me this is the best class out of this grade, filled with brilliant kids and creative ones and all, but what I just saw, didn’t make me feel like that, children.” Miss Uvana was telling, looking at us with her eagle eyes. But, whatever she said there, I didn’t think at least one kid inside the class, took it much serious as she did. Hey! We are not bad guys, right. As I told you before, we were a bit different, that’s all. And, on the other hand, that was our first day in our new grade. So, Celebrate!!!

“However children, from here I’m not only your science teacher, but also your class teacher. So, let’s make this surrounding, somewhat comfortable.” From there, Miss Uvana took the throne and went on. We had much to do. Starting from the top, cleaning the classroom, collecting the classroom requirements, making a peaceful learning environment, blah..blah..blah.. and finally getting to know each other. (Actually, the last point was not in Miss Uvana’s worklist, but in ours)

So, give me a chance to introduce my first ever school family.. Just a short description. There were like twenty five members. Sally- the black-haired funny girl, Winne-our mastermind. And beyond them were the two twin princesses Zeyna and Fiyona, who had a good taste in every single funny thing. They always cared too much about their appearance, which didn't feel sounds good for Miss Uvana. However, they had brilliant ideas, every time when we wanted to make something possible. Then there was these girls Hazel, Jane and Clare who dedicated their lives for dancing. Then our artist Emmie, the brainy Ruth, with Henna, Anne and Chelly bring our girls’ troop to a close. Then starting from Jasper- commonly known as jester, James- err..(I don’t know how to introduce him. Just call him ‘the everything guy’), Ben and Tedd two sportsmen, Kind Flinton, Funny Drake, Waynne , Spikes, Sadam, Yusheng- our chinese boy, Julian and Timothy were our boys in the class. And I can proudly say that each one of them had their own specialities.

Besides all my friends, we also had our class teacher Miss Uvana Stellon. Now, I really don’t like the parts when I have to introduce my teachers, because it’s quite hard. But as I had already done half of it, I can’t put away the other half, can I? So, when we are talking about Miss Uvana, she was a really really different character. I am still not sure that I had understood her totally; but whatever she is, we really loved her. She was older than many other teachers, but seemed only thirty or less. (Except her hair which was turning white gradually).

Guys, sorry! I'm totally going crazy. This ought to be a story, not a boring report or such a thing. So, this is enough. Let’s start again from our next few crazy days.