An autobiography of my life

My days at primary school {part 4}

In September of 2013, i was in standard 2. Actually, there was three of each class at my primary school. So there was three standard 2's. The teachers names were: Ms. Keisha Reynolds, Ms. Laura van S and Ms. Makin. These three ladies were the standard 2 teachers. The first day, my mother had to take me to school because i was shy and i didn't know where my class was. It took us an hour before we could have found my class. Turned out, one of my teacher{who was Ms. Keisha Reynolds} had a student list and of course, at the bottom of the list, my name was there was spelled like this: "KEESHA". When my name is spelled like this: "TEESHA". But sometimes, people get confused with names like mine. They would pronounce my name as Krisha, Keesha or Neisha.

The first day didn't seem so bad i thought to myself as me and my mother walked upstairs to my class. I was a very timid respectful little girl and i still am. When i entered my classroom, everyone was looking at me. that only made me feel more shy and uncomfortable than before. Overall, the first week went good but after that, things took a turn quickly. Because since i was the most quiet child, the other students would come and disturb me and say a lot of mean things to me. {BTW, i didn't even knew how to fight back then}. Eventually, i got tired and i start to answer them back and then i got beat up by them and bullied on top of that.

One day in class, our teacher came in and announced that our class devotion is coming up. She also showed us the songs that we will be singing. So to start us off, our teacher told us that we will be practicing the national anthem, school song and the song Joyful, Joyful. As she wrote the lyrics on the wide black board, she sang the lyrics and we repeated what she sang. But i wasn't singing with everyone else. I was being shy and hiding my face behind my book. And suddenly she called upon me. She said: "Teesha, can you come up at the front of the class and sing this song?. and i will help you along the way". And i replied"okay miss". So my teacher went first and then me. As i began to sing, the whole class gone silent and at the end of the song, my teacher was surprised along with my classmates. my teacher was smiling at me and said: " wow! Teesha, I didn't know you could sing like that and you sound amazing." That compliment made me smile.

And so, after classes, my teacher asked me to stay back and practice the song because she chose me to sing for our class devotion. When Monday came, I was quite excited about our class devotion. My hair was in a two puff and i was so slim, that my uniform had space in it. At 8:00, the bell rang for the assembly at church and my class was already inside waiting for the rest of the other classes to enter. As i stood there watching all the other classes come, i kept telling myself"everything is going to be okay". After a few minutes passed, everyone was inside church seated in order. The MC'S started off with a warm welcome, followed by an opening prayer done by one of my classmates and so on. Then the MC's announced:" the song joyful, joyful will be done by Teesha castillo." everyone gave me their attention. i felt like i was being swept away by a enormous wave. i took a deep breath and sang my heart out in front of everyone. and when i finished singing, my classmates sang along with me. And when we finished, everyone stood up and clapped joyfully for my class and me. that was the happiest moment of my life.