Sigh.

What a day it has been. This sure has to be the longest and most boring day of my life – and the worst part is: it’s not even over yet. I just got back from school and it was as boring as a funeral on a Monday morning. Schools have been open for only two days yet it feels like it’s been a decade and a half! I thought I missed school but I was wrong. The boring holidays are always superseded by boring times at school.

It’s going to be a long semester, I tell you, and a very lonely one too. If I survive this semester there’s absolutely nothing I won’t be able to survive. I mean, on my first day I was already pulling my hair. Trust me, if things don’t change soon, by the time the summer holidays announce themselves I will be bald.

I’ve always thought of myself as a chameleon, you know. I thought I could adapt to circumstantial change easily. I mean I’ve done it many times before; when life chose to throw chaos my way I walked on as if nothing happened. “It’s simple, we can’t always have what we want,” I always tell myself.

But Tee’s absence in my life is unbearable. School sucks big time without her. How can it not suck when we have excited tutors who want to start tutoring classes in our first week? Flippin’ workaholics!

“This is a very hectic and short semester,” I knew when our Intercultural Communications tutor said this that there was trouble on the horizon. “We have to start preparing immediately, so that we can all be ready for the exams at the end of the year,” she said, confirming my suspicion.

I couldn’t help but notice the “that’s-what-I-get-paid-for” attitude when she saw the bewildered look in our eyes.

I can definitely tell when I see a slave driver – and she definitely is a slave driver! If you think that Zinzi Zwane is being her usual self, exaggerating for effect, wait till you hear this: our tutor says we must make our own notes as she won’t be sharing her slides with us. Selfish! Isn’t that what she is paid for? I mean, why be so tight-fisted with information that will help us be well prepared for the exam?

So, me being me, I decided to take a picture. And guess what? She caught me on the act and gave me a pep talk in full view of the whole class about how she didn’t tolerate cellphones in her class.

As if to put weight on her lame words, she showed us this other video on YouTube of a mean lecturer who caught a student focusing on his phone during class, broke the phone and put it in a glass of water. The meanest and dumbest thing I’ve ever experienced with my eyes.

I’m sure that’s her role model. She wants to be feared and respected and she is demanding it. Well, after spoiling my day today, she won’t get mine anytime soon.

I can’t help wishing Tee was here. I can’t help but miss her.

ZZ xxx

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