My Birthday

This month is my 20th birthday. I will hold a party. I plan to have the party in my favorite Chinese restaurant by the sea. It is actually a big old Chinese boat. The restaurant management renovated and painted it red with golden details. It looks fabulous. The restaurant people will decorate the room with red lanterns, lotuses, and peaches. They will serve Chinese food: Pekingese duck, shark fin soup, fried noodles, abalone with bamboo shoot, and other dishes. I will invite everybody I know. They will wear cheongsam or Chinese traditional clothes. It will be a fantastic party.

Economics Teacher

            I never like economics. In junior high school, my daily mark was never higher than six. The condition didn’t improve in senior high school because I didn’t like the teacher. He was impatient. In the end I simply did whatever he asked us to do but never tried my best.

This economics teacher was also not very clear when explaining something. That made me feel bored and do something else rather than listening to him. I didn’t take notes of what my teacher was saying. I often made drawings in my notebook or wrote poems or recited some song lyrics. I didn’t arouse my teacher’s suspicion. I did everything in my notebook. It was impossible for anyone to point the finger at me and say that I wasn’t taking notes unless they were close enough to see.

One day my teacher came to the economics class. He didn’t directly begin teaching. Instead, he asked to collect our notebooks. I panicked. My notebook was full of drawing instead of notes. But what else could I do but hand it in? There was no time to do anything. I could just sit and wait in fear of what would happen next.

I was right to be afraid. The teacher looked through the books. Then he called out some students. Those students were to see the school principal. My name was called. And together with some other unlucky classmates, I headed towards the principal’s office.

We were lucky. The principal didn’t punish us. The wise man told us to respect other people, in this case, our economics teacher. Then he dismissed us. He only asked us to apologize. I was stunned. He indeed was a wise man. He made me regret what I had done. I learned my lesson!

Vocabulary :

Arouse          : as a verb, to cause or give rise to something

Suspicion      : as a noun, feeling that sth wrong, sb has done wrong

Wise            :as an adjective, in respect of or as regards

Stunned       : as a verb, to make unconscious or knock senseless by a blow on the head