TheStorytellersBazaar:Embarrassing Incidents
My First ClassThis incident happened at the Bilkent University School of English Language. I had been offered work as a language instructor there. I had been there about a week and had seen the class I was due to teach. I had met my colleagues, had my orientation and prepared my lessons. It was now day one, lesson one and I was sitting in the staff room waiting for the bell to mark the beginning of the lesson. As I waited I glanced over my lesson plans once more. After a while, when no bell had gone I glanced at my watch. It was past the scheduled time of the class and I wondered why the bell hadn't been rung. There was one other teacher in the staffroom, Richard. "The bells a bit late today, Richard," I commented. "Oh no," he said. "The bell doesn't go for this lesson, only for the longer ones. You'd better hurry." I groaned. I was fifteen minutes late for my first lesson. I grabbed my books and files and rushed out of the door. It was just my luck that the class was three floors down in the basement. I flew down the stairs and once I got to the bottom floor I turned sharply and slipped on the freshly polished stone floor. My legs were airborne and flew up in front of me and I landed on the floor with a large bump on my bottom. The books I had been holding flew in all directions and landed in a circle around me. I raised my head slightly and saw my student standing in a line outside their class looking at me in complete silence. They then quietly filed into the classroom leaving me lying on the floor alone in the empty corridor. I groaned again and put my head back down on the stone floor wishing the ground to open up and swallow me. I lay there for a minute but like it or not I had to get up and go into that classroom. I picked myself up, I hadn't hurt anything except my ego, gathered up my books and with as much dignity as I could muster I walked towards my classroom. I had no idea what I would say when I got in there and my mind had frozen with fear.
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