London nautical school weekday vs weekend

By in Communication on January 22, 2015

In school on the weekday it is noisy, you walk past a class room and hear lots of teachers shouting at students in their classrooms. It is very crowded, you walk through the corridor and get pushed around by the students coming from every corner of the hall. I can smell the lunches being cooked in the canteen , the scent of chicken and chips waft up my nose, it makes me very hungry. I walk around the school avoiding the students running through the corridors, and I ran my hands along the cold bumpy walls. The roughness of the walls make my hand numb and tingly. When my classes start, they usually take about ten minutes to start the actual lesson as the students are on their phones, talking to each other and just not paying attention. The lessons are always loud unless the teacher appears to get very angry, this is often apparent when I see them  rolling their eyes while taking slow deliberate breaths then we will be in silence until we are aloud to talk. When it is lunch time, the students all rush to the lunch hall to try and be first in line for it, but my need for peace and quiet makes me go get lunch outside. When I come back the school is quieter, but the younger years are still running around the school like maniacs.

 

In school on the weekend it is very quiet, it is just complete silence. The corridors are dark and gloomy, they feel like they go on forever.  There was no one to be seen anywhere, I feel like I am the only person in the world.  It is kind of scary in a way, like I am being watched, and I do not like that feeling at all. I walk around looking in the cold dark rooms hoping to find people there, but I do not see anyone in them.  I take my phone out of my pocket and look at the time, 11 o’clock, I thought it was much later.  I sprint up the stairs trying to find life in the school, looking in every window, in every gap that I can find, but no people anywhere.  I finally come to a room with people in it and I go in and sit down at a computer and log on, listening to the pupils talk about what they are going to do after school and the next day, time flies by and the next time I look at my phone it is 12:30. It was frustrating and I couldn’t think at all, it was like my brain has been knocked out and wouldn’t wake up.  Suddenly it was  1:00 which was when the school closed and I logged off the computer and left the class room. When I left, all the students were running and shouting, it felt like school again.

3 thoughts on “London nautical school weekday vs weekend

  1. 1

    This is going well Casey – there are some areas where I think you can still develop a greater sense of ‘being there’ (even though the image is becoming very vivid in my mind already)

    Parts like “the teacher gets very angry” are hard to interpret – what do they do when they’re angry? How can you tell (beyond the yelling – most of us have a subtle thing we do, go red or clench our fists – think of an actual teacher you know)

    This is the same as sections where you say things like “kind of scary in a way”. How is it scary – in what way? Do you have a particular image in your head to support that feeling? No matter how small the detail – that’s what we need.

    “time flew by” – how does that feel?

    It’s going well – but let’s push it further!

    CW

  2. 2

    I really like the ending, by the way.

  3. 3

    32/40 – Band 2 – B2

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