Afterthought: The part in italics are the thoughts of a proxy professor who's just walked into a busy classroom. The part in normal font describe the students. Makes things simpler now.She took a deep breath, pulled herself up and walked in through the open door straight into the heart of easily the noisiest room in the corridor.
They all paused
in their maneuvers to look up at the woman who had just entered. They knew her!
She was one of those new faculties, maybe from the English department! Meaning,
she was going to take the course this semester!
She walked up to the desk a bit nervous. The
students had gone unnaturally quiet! She helped herself to a quick count of the
strength of the class. Sixty-ish maybe?
Suddenly someone
remembered that the course was actually in some other faculty’s able hands! It spread like wildfire and
in less than a minute everyone had realized 3 things:
1. She was just a proxy teacher.
2. She seemed to have all intentions of
teaching.
3. They were Sixty-ish in strength!
She decided to announce it large to the
class that she was going to teach something about ‘Memos’ when she felt it
building in them. They were going to revolt!
She had some
superstitious idea of a classroom etiquette which apparently stated that the
teacher was, by all means, required to teach whenever she is in a class. Like
how we humans are required to sleep, by all means, whenever comes the
nightfall.
Needless to say,
the CSKickers recognized none of the
two funny rules. She had to go.
They started cutting her off. It was
irritating and insulting! She had to stand her ground, but cleverly.
She’d started
producing sentences from her book and challenged them to correct the
same.
It was now off
limits.
They started shouting more with intensity.
Now she had a reputation to maintain. But there was also the question of other
rooms being disturbed. After a lot of painful compromising thoughts, she gave
it up.
She fell silent
after her fake promises were all broken. Didn’t matter much anyway! She was
leaving, but not silently.
She took the piece of paper filled with
names and started reading them loud to check for any confusion. She had to
cancel down some names! She wondered how the original teacher was to handle
this batch!
She collected her proud possessions and turned to leave.
But she hadn’t come in vain, because now they were all brimming with ideas about how they were
going to handle the original teacher!