Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Messymimi and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.easy  2.student  3.invasion  4.encourage  5.housing  6.spectrum  

and/or: 

1.gaud (a trinket)   2.moil (drudgery)  3.pore on (pore over, think about, dwell on)

Also including Charlotte's colour of the month: straw yellow

Here is my story:

It isn’t easy being a student these days, nor a teacher. The constant invasion of mobile phones pinging with messages does nothing to encourage any child to pay attention and I often wonder why I took up this moil of teaching.

I remember there was a promise of housing being offered, which gave me a small kick in this direction, but as I pore over the latest essay handed in by the token on-the-spectrum student I realise that neither he nor I am making any progress at all.

He tries, but is constantly interrupted by the rest of the class, (I hesitate to call them students since none seem to study at all), with their jingling phones, their gaudy trinkets, their wildly coloured hair and clothing.

I decide to focus more on this one child and leave the rest to their fate. Once this term is over I will hand in my notice and board the next ship back to Earth. Life on the moon is not for me. I will try to convince the parents of this boy to join me. There are better programs on Earth these days and he may do well, this child with the straw yellow hair.