Emma and her history lesson

As a teacher, I should never fail to be a role-model for my class.

This is an essay which I did some moments ago. The storyline is not fantastic, however, the language structure could be something you may like to look into. 



***Start of story***

                Emma could not believe what she saw in front of her. She had been sitting in the classroom for the last two hours, not thinking about anything except finishing her history exam. Then suddenly, feeling that something in her surroundings was not right, she had raised her eyes from the exam paper. The classroom had completely disappeared and she found herself in a tent of nowhere. When she stepped out from the tent, she noticed that the people were dressed in strange costume. It seemed that it was the Victorian era where they were dressed in Victorian gowns, wore bonnets and carried parasols by their side.

               How horrendous. She quickly realized that the characters which she studied in her history books came alive. As she recalled, she was studying on Shakespeare’s life in London, and she was on her way to the theater where the plays were performed.

               What came next was something she was not prepared. She had forgotten she was not dressed in the costume that people surrounding her were wearing. A moment later, these strangers were staring at her, and what she was wearing. At this moment, she realized she was wearing her school uniform consisting of a white-stripped blouse and blue pinafore and her sneakers.

               The on-lookers gave her stares which subsequently turned into fingers pointing towards her direction. They felt flabbergasted that Emma was dressed so scantily in a thin blouse which obviously came from another continent! Murmurs soon turned into loud protests and constables from were soon surrounding her. They had wanted to bring her back to the constabulary for further investigations.

                Emma saw what was coming, and she started screaming. She burst into a quick run, taking her feet as fast she could in a different direction. It was a while later, when she realized that she could no longer run. And for some reasons, her history paper came back, and she was back at the classroom.

               Was it all a dream? Yet, within that dream, the characters were simply too real to be otherwise…. She decided not to think along that line, but focused instead on completing her paper. Finally, she completed her paper and submitted it to her tutor.

                With that, she went home and related the whole tale to her mum. As her mum said, “This is a strange but completely plausible tale. It could happen when you have simply studied too much for the past few days.”

                 Ever since that day, Emma decided that the next best way to study is to take a break for every revision. 

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Have a good weekend. 

Cheers,

Mdm Chan