Sunday, November 4, 2007

the 2nd essay

In 1999, it was my high school year. I was not a good student as a little evil. I was cheating all the time, and I had broken everything in the school. Anyway, even though I was not good at study, I still needed to take a high school final exam, and to pass it to get into college. Even though I was the little evil student at school, the final exam for me was a hell, a hell that to imprison some little devils. Then I such as did something wrong and a monster took me to the eighteen levels of the hell (a legendary tradition in china, people thought the hell has eighteen levels). Then, when I heard the news “No High School Exam”, I was liberated and everything changed.
One day, when I was studying at home, I was very different from my normal day. Then I heard a voice outside was calling my name “Hey! Bil Gor, let go play basketball.” He was one of my best friends in high school and also he was the leader of our little devils. I took a look at the clock, which read 7:00 pm. I replied and explained I still had a lot of homework that I needed to do and review. Then I heard him say something which my voice didn’t stop. Because outside the street was very noisy, so I couldn’t hear him. But I noticed a few words said no exam for this year of the high school. Quickly, I left my books and ran out to the evil leader, and then I knew I had a chance to avoid the hell.

There was no exam in this year for the last year students who were graduating at high school. And it changed my future in college. After I heard this news, I played basketball every day without studying in school. Why the education department did that, I didn’t know, but this was the only way for our little evil kids to pass the school and get into college. However, the advanced students still could study hard to take the final exam because they believed they have chance to get into the high level colleges or universities. Those are our choices.
The college changed me. “The First Business of College” was the worst school I had never seen. There liked a devil world, there was fighting every day. You could see the drugs everywhere. The classroom could seat forty people, but only got five people there. I didn’t take the exam to go into this school, and then I thought I was wrong. I came here with some of the little devils, because the leader was there. We were always together. The memories for me in this college still clear until now. I still remember my first time when I arrived to the school, the leader told me, we needed to build up our territory and spread it out. Well! Like a stupid person, I listened to him. Like he said, we fought anywhere, we did everything bad, we wanted to kill somebody, and then somebody wanted kill us. It was like a comic story or a movie. Soon, the school let us out, and we didn’t have school anymore because our filthy background. I was nothing to the world. That’s what I thought about myself. Soon, our evil group separated, and I went into the world by myself. I began to think I did everything wrong or right? What was my future? Should I quit the exam?
It has been eight years since I missed the final exam from now. Now I’m in the United States and I feel better than before. But In these eight years I have five years were empty. I wasted it. Because I didn’t take the final exam, I went into a terrible college. I listened to the evil leader, no! He’s not the evil leader. I thought he’s the real monster than the final exam. I wasted the five years that no one could give me back. This was a really long time for a person who never wants to lose, but I did. Now, I have some basic conversation with English, but I can’t do it in an easy way, because I quit my school for five years. I lost the time that teenagers should have to use it.
I know a person should have a normal education in their life, but I lost. I can’t forget it forever what I have done before. I just regret why I didn’t take the final exam and get into the greatest school. Then I would never been an evil person, I shouldn’t, and the exam wouldn’t have changed my life.

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