English football
Back in the early life of the 'noughties' i was just starting my 5th year of secondary school in scotland. We had the new higher stills just drifting to the system so naturally we had no clue as to what we had to contend with. My english is generally very sound but my motivation is sorely lacking so out of the blue i was put in a general class for lack of work in the previous years with a pretty hard nut teacher. This general class only had about 16 pupils and for the first month it was a doddle until the teacher took ill and was away for about a month. During this month we had no teacher, had no work and had no idea what to do apart from play football with scrunched up pieces of paper. It was a good educational period until we had interim exam or a progress exam.

Interim exam? No one told us anything about that or the fact we were supposed to have learnt and read a poem before taking it!

Well...that exam didn't go too well especially since we were all still in the empty classroom playing paper football when it started. The head of department was not very pleased to see our expression of genuine surprise and lack of prep for it. He didn't belive us about not having a teacher for the whole month either. Bastard.

Sitting down in the exam hall with blank papers and a set of questions we had to write an essay on was not very fun. I remember clearly the absolute horror of sitting down for 3 hours writing bollocks or trying to fabricate a reasonable conclusion for all the question on a completely random subject. We all failed miserably and got put in an even lower class with retards. Our case was closed and locked!

Now i do technical authoring.
(EpeeDemic, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 10:47, Reply)