After working for about two plus hours and finishing the challenging math’s assignment, a snack break was surely overdue. Fresh orange juice with barbecue flavor crisps, a perfectly balanced diet :) should rejuvenate me for my science assignment.
I looked at the clear blue sky on that crisp winter morning and called out to Tipy, my pet dog, to come along. She also deserved a snack, as she had been giving me company and the much needed moral support while I finished my weekend homework. She didn’t respond as i kept walking towards the house, so I thought I will grab something for her too. Had been a productive start to the weekend, one big assignment down and just one more to go before I head out with family for picnic!
I got the snacks for us and walked back but as I came out of the house towards the nook in the lawn where my table and chair were, I found Tipy going all hyper and running in circles. When I came closer, to my horror, my two and a half hours of sweat and toil were in shreds all over!!Tipppyyyyy had succumbed to her sense of curiosity and destroyed not just the assignment but also the work book it was in!! In tears and shouting at Tipy, I desperately picked up what was left of my assignment. How would I look when I tell my teacher the next morning that my dog ate my homework?! She will kill me, I will be the laughing stock of year 8, nobody will believe me.
I learnt the hard way, my most memorable learning experience on that eventful day years ago and I promised I will never leave my assignments/homework unattended with my pets -my cat brownie had spilt a whole ink pot on one of my earlier assignments but I leave that story for another day…
I looked at the clear blue sky on that crisp winter morning and called out to Tipy, my pet dog, to come along. She also deserved a snack, as she had been giving me company and the much needed moral support while I finished my weekend homework. She didn’t respond as i kept walking towards the house, so I thought I will grab something for her too. Had been a productive start to the weekend, one big assignment down and just one more to go before I head out with family for picnic!
I got the snacks for us and walked back but as I came out of the house towards the nook in the lawn where my table and chair were, I found Tipy going all hyper and running in circles. When I came closer, to my horror, my two and a half hours of sweat and toil were in shreds all over!!Tipppyyyyy had succumbed to her sense of curiosity and destroyed not just the assignment but also the work book it was in!! In tears and shouting at Tipy, I desperately picked up what was left of my assignment. How would I look when I tell my teacher the next morning that my dog ate my homework?! She will kill me, I will be the laughing stock of year 8, nobody will believe me.
I learnt the hard way, my most memorable learning experience on that eventful day years ago and I promised I will never leave my assignments/homework unattended with my pets -my cat brownie had spilt a whole ink pot on one of my earlier assignments but I leave that story for another day…
Hi Seema
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed your posts so far and am looking forward to more. My eldest son had his homework eaten by our cat Claudia and his teacher to her credit accepted the excuse.
Hope these posts are now working.