The Virtual Students Turned into Real-Life Classmates

A life of, virtual realities here, translated…

My daughter often called me from the ancient times, because I don’t have a cell phone, it’s not that I can’t afford one, it’s just, that I really just, don’t have a use for one, and so, I couldn’t know the fun from cell phone games firsthand. But, in reality, I did, play a virtual game of my own, and, it was, started, from sixty some years ago when I was in the first grade, I’d played the games until I was in my third grade year.

what it looked like…

not my photo…

For the first and second grade levels, we only had half-days of school, and, during the time I have away from school, I’d used the chalk my father gave me, and wrote out the phonetic alphabets or the numbers, then, I’d used a thin bamboo stick, pointed to the words or numbers, said to my group of “virtually, nonexistent” class of elementary students, and I became their teachers, took them to read, and, made the corrections to them, “No, you’re supposed to roll your tongue for this phonetic sound!”.

It was, originally a virtual game for one, but, as I got into the third grade, I was selected as the head of the class by my new homeroom teacher, and, in order to maintain order during the early study hall hours, I’d taken the classmates to recite the lessons. There were, a couple of times, when the assistant principal appeared out of the blue in the hallways, he’d stood still for a bit, then, peeked into the classroom that I was, “teaching”; back then, I’d not known, that the “activities” of a certain head of the class taking her class to recite out the texts had, gotten into his ears. That year, “teacher’s aide” became my nickname, and I’d gained, a huge rep over it too.

It was, an original game of one, and, I can’t believe, that in my third grade year, all of my make-believe students, became real students!

what it looks like later on…

So, this, is something you’d done, to pass the time as a child, and, your teaching your “virtual class” of “nonexistent students” was actually, rehearsing you, for teaching your classmates the lessons in school. It’s a wonder, how something you did that you never thought would matter, had turned out, to matter, so very much, isn’t it???