Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Break Time At School

I look at my watch.Two minutes to go before break time and the class is visible agitated.Everybody is restless.Even Mr.Lee our mathematics teachers is fidgeting quietly in his seat,looking outside now and then.

The bell rings,exploding the subdued silence of the school.I feel a tangible change in mood among my classmates.The brooding atmosphere immediately gives ways to an excited chatter of happy voices.Mr.Lee strudes quickly out of the class.We run.

We run toward the tuckshop,slowing down every time we encounter a teacher in our path.Teachers are so slow.They block the way and waste our precious twenty minutes of the break time.

Nevertheless I am always one of those first at the tuckshop.I order a plate of mee and ladle a generous helping of gravy onto the mee.Next I move over to the refreshment stall of the tuckshop and buy a glass
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