quinta-feira, 21 de setembro de 2017

Turnarounds at School by Tânia Tonelli


At a public school of a modern city, Vicente, instead of paying attention to the math class, was having fun with his cellphone games. This teenager was twelve years old and was studying in the 6th grade. While the teacher was explaining the content, he noticed that some boys were not paying attention to him. So, he came closer to one of them and asked Vicente to hand his cellphone in. At first, he refused but ended up giving it to the teacher. The man, turned around and started walking towards the blackboard. Mad, Vicente said the teacher was boring and sticked his tongue out at him. All students laughed. Furious, the teacher tried to kick Vicente out of the classroom but the boy kept sitting on his school desk. So the teacher repeted his commandment but five friends of Vicente said that they were united, so that if one of them left the classroom, then the whole class would go together. The teacher got confused and one of the teenagers told a joke. While the students were laughing, the man asked them to be quiet because he would like to keep going with the class. Giggling, Vicente told he did not need to learn math since when he grew up he would be a rich and famous singer. Angry, the teacher replied to Vicente that if he did not know how to do mathematical calculations, he could not have that much money. Vicente, got up from his chair and walked through the class saying that as he was handsome women would pay to kiss him on the mouth. The opinion of the female students was divided: some applauded, while others booed. At this moment, the buzzer went off. As the teacher disliked the jokes, he warned that next day he would have a serious conversation with the principal and would punish the impolite students. When the students left school, Vicente's friends said that he had serious problems with the teacher. Suddenly the teenager had an idea! Smiling, he said he would easily solve this problem. As soon as he got home, he went to his mother's room. On top of the dressing table was a quartz that belonged to his great-grandfather, Pedro. His ancestor received it as a gift from an old Indian. People used to claim that quartz had magical powers, because of the story that said that his great-grandfather fell in love with a farmer's daughter. As she never noticed him, with the help of the quartz powers his spirit lodged itself in her boyfriend's body. After twenty-four hours, his spirit returned to its original place. The girl delighted herself with the man's kindness, ended the relationship with her boyfriend and got involved with Pedro. Secretly, in the next day, Vicente took the quartz and went to school. When he entered the classroom, his friends told him that teacher Fábio was talking to the principal. The boy took the quartz and thought he would like to be in the teacher's body. Suddenly, he felt dizzy, closed his eyes and the moment he opened them, he realized that his spirit was in the teacher's body. Smiling, he praised Vicente and his class to the principal. When he left the principal's room, the spirit of teacher Fábio, being in the body of the boy, almost crying, said that he would like to return to his body. Laughing, Vincent explained how they had exchanged bodies and that within twenty-four hours their spirits would return to their original bodies. At this moment the buzzer rang and Vicente, in the teacher's body, went to teach in the 7th grade. When he entered the classroom, the students were talking and joking. Instead
of teaching, he started playing with the teenagers. After ten minutes or so, the supervisor entered the room, and was shocked after seeing the teacher's behavior. The woman scolded him saying that a teacher should have responsibilities and teach the content to the students instead of play with them. Vicente got confused because he had little knowledge of math. To avoid trouble, he began to teach a game to the students, saying that the rules of it used mathematical calculations. Fifty minutes later, he finished his lesson. The next two classes were in the room where Vicente studied. After he entered, he sat down in the chair in front of the teacher's table, called Fabio and ashamed said that he did not know what to teach the students. Laughing, the boy replied that he would show the teacher his mathematical knowledge. Fábio made several calculations on the blackboard and for that impressed the girl that Vicente flirted with. After the two classes, the teacher had to return to his home. The boy and the teacher talked to each other. They would go back to their homes so nobody would notice that they had exchanged bodies. The teacher lived in a neighborhood far from downtown. As he walked past a café, he flirted with a beautiful girl. The moment he entered the house, his wife hugged him and kissed his mouth. The woman held a baby on her lap. As the child cried, she asked her husband to hold the baby while she would go check if the child’s milk was ready. Desmayed, Vincent looked at the lady and thought: "I never kissed a girl, that kiss was horrible, because she is an ugly woman." After a couple of minutes the doorbell was rung. The woman opened the door. A furious man entered and when he saw the teacher shouted that he would beat him up because he flirted with his girlfriend. Then he punched Fábio's face. Vincent woke up scared, it was 4:15, he was lying on his bed. Then he realized that this whole adventure was just a dream, and began to reflect, because he had always criticized the adults, but sometimes these people are boring because they have many responsibilities. As soon as he got to school, he went to teacher Fábio and apologized for being rude. Smiling, he promised that from that day on he would be a good student, because he needed to learn mathematical calculations so that when he finished high school he could take the college entrance examination to study in the college of his dreams.

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