Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Premonitions

In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, both Romeo and Juliet have premonitions but do not act on them. Usually, when a person has a bad feeling about something, just like those Jedi masters from Star Wars, something bad actually tends to happen. I know for sure that just like everybody else, I too had a lot of premonitions. Even though I can't remember most of them, I certainly remember this one time when I was a little child who started trouble at school, two times in a row.
It was the year of 2002, which is the year when I was in 3rd grade of elementry school. There was some weird feeling that I had during the whole morning on the day when I had all of the three premonitions in a row. To begin with, I argued with my teacher, Mrs. Oh, which was caused by me making fun of a classmate's name being similar to the word "squid" in Korean. I could definitely tell that she was quite mad, but she didn't get me in trouble so I thought I was fine for the rest of the day. However, after lunch (we had several people in the class to bring the lunch tank that was filled with our lunches into the class since we didn't eat at the cafeteria), I tipped over the tank and spilled all the leftovers. This was the second time that I caused a major trouble, and that was the point where I really started worry. My teacher was seriously mad then, even though she still didn't get me in a trouble. She had me clean up the mess with some other friends, but I think now that she was extraordinarily generous. After the last period of the day, I do not know why, but I must've been crazy, because when a girl that was sitting right next to me tried to sit down on her chair, I quickly stole the chair and she just landed on her bottom. I found it very funny, and my friends found it funny also, but the girl and my teacher did not. The girl started to cry and that was when I realized that something really bad was going to happen, since this was the third time that I got my teacher get mad. Mrs. Oh came straight to me, telling me that she could've gotten a serious spine injury, and that I'm staying after school for lecture.
After school that day, I stayed after class, wrote about 3 or more pages of reprimands. I had a tutoring after school, since it was a Wednesday, so I missed the tutoring, and I believe I cried as soon as I started on my third reprimand. Now to think back the memories, I do not think it was a big deal, but back then, I must've been quite scared. I regretted, and still sort of regret what I have done that day-- making fun of a classmate's name, tipping over the lunch tank, and the chair prank. These all could be prevented by controlling my desire to do something fun but dangerous. Well, even though they were some bad things that a 3rd grader could've done, I now think that those are going to remain as just some good memories.

4 comments:

MattB3 said...

You had to clean the whole mess that sucks and your blog is really long.

Jill Lawrence said...

Yeah I did tell you about sunny. Haha i think i said "I had a bird with the same name as you! she died though" Haa. And oh jeezz sounds like a bad day! I had the chair prank happen to me once.. ):

christinag3 said...

i know exactly what your are talking about, one time i pulled the chair prank one someone else and i got into so much trouble! its funny hows things we got into trouble for back in the third grade we wouldn't get into trouble for now. great writing, keep up the awesome work!

DanielK3 said...

Wow that sucks, i would hate to write three reprimands and have to sit through a lecture.