THE BEST AND THE WORSE

During my school days, it is safe to call me a very smart student. I wasn’t the most intelligent, but I always found a way to pass my exams and be among the top 5 if not even the best. I have always had a competitive nature and it has driven me to always want to be the best. But then, in spite of this competitive side of me, there was a point in secondary school that made me realize I was dumb in a particular subject. I guess it was a good thing because it was easy for me to easily choose whether I wanted to be a science student, social science or art student.

No matter how much I read business studies I was never good at it, my accounts were never balanced. That was the only subject where I was scoring a D or E while scoring at least B in other subjects. I was an A student by the way, and scoring a B was always seen as a pass mark for me. So when I was always scoring less than a B in business studies, I knew it wasn’t for me and when it was time to choose the class I wanted to take, I was not even looking into the social sciences because I knew that if I could not understand business studies, there is no way on earth I would understand accounting.

At first I did not really have a favorite subject until I met my geography teacher in secondary school. It was the way he taught me. He made me not just like the course, he made sure I knew it through and through. With the way he taught us then, I was able to write my entrance exams without reading and still scoring an A. That was how much confidence he made me have in myself. Too bad he only stayed for a term, but what he did in that one term, stayed with me for life.

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