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CHAPTER ONE

15 November, 2012
Time: 1234 hours
Location: The most torturous place on earth, St Joseph's College

Well I finally stopped hyperventilating and this time it only took me 15 minutes. My hands are still shaking and few tears keep leaking...but I'm good...yeah I'm good.
Why am I such a mess..well we just got our chemistry end of month test papers back and all but one student did horribly.
You know what means...it means we get our at rear ends whipped or walloped as Mr Simon affectionately calls it.
After exactly 164 strokes and thousands of tears, mostly from me, the mood is sad and pitifully as we watch the board while Tshepho does the correction.
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"Okay since it seems like no one wants to try the last question I will just write my answer. Just so you know I didn't get the full marks for this one." Tshepo says sounding as tired and defeated as the rest of us.

He reaches for the scrunched up toilet paper to wipe the whiteboard but Simon stops him

"Tell one of the dummies to clean the board, that's at least one thing they can do right. You can't do everything for them." With that he turns into his office and Boemo like the suck up she is, jumps to clean the board.

5 minutes later we are done with the paper that will most likely be trashed by most of the class when we leave this class because what's the point.

Mr Simon walks out of his office with an ugly expression on his face and sits on the chair to start his monthly sermon

"Well you guys are the worst pure science class in this school and probably the worst I have ever taught." He states. "So the department has decided to try and help you guys by asking some of the willing and able students from other honors classes to help you out."

"Well that's new." I mutter to myself.

"Not really it was on the notice board yesterday." Sean informs me, intruding into my thoughts. So that's what the fuss was all about. "Right below our monthly test scores." I groan. This school's fool proof method to getting us to pass is shame and pain.

"I have divided you into groups of seven based on your abilities or lack of and have assigned tutors to these said groups. Now I'm going to call the members of the groups and their tutors. Group 1: Tshepho, Thabang, Gofiwa, Thando, Tyler, Leah and Kgosi. Your tutor will be Kitso from 4C."