Nicoye - Chicken Stories

Rooster

Before we write about the competition, we must first write about our class teacher, U Tun Zaw, who we had in eighth grade.

I think the teacher has a bit of a Chinese accent. He is fair-skinned, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, has a compact body, a straight nose, rather thick lips, and sharp, unlined eyes. The most distinctive feature of the teacher's body is his sharp, unlined eyes. The teacher is quiet. He does not carry a textbook, but keeps a piece of chalk in his school uniform. If he cannot find a chalk (s)he does not ask the students to stand up or do anything like other teachers, but he often erases it with the sleeve of his school uniform. One teacher said to him, "Since he does it in front of the students, he is teaching them good techniques." The teacher said, "I am teaching them good techniques."

“I don’t want to find fault with something that’s not important, because I can’t give Duster enough time in the forty-five minutes I have. I think it’s not bad to read a novel and then show him how to pee, but it’s not good,” she replied. The teacher is quiet and has a bad attitude, and the other teachers say that she doesn’t get along with any of the teachers. The teacher just moved to the new school this year, and when she arrived, she was assigned to our class, which was the weakest in the entire eighth grade.

The teacher doesn't usually scold you for talking or eating during class. He also doesn't scold you for not wearing school uniform. He just says bluntly, "If you wear school uniform, I'll recognize you as a student. If something happens, I'll help you, give you a seat, give you priority, and if you don't want to do anything that specifically benefits you, it's up to you." Our class is like the A class, where if you don't wear school uniform, you get a one-on-one match.

There is no school absence. Therefore, the teacher is not in harmony with the teachers, the speaker said.

The teacher didn't hit us much, but we couldn't stand the sight of his small, narrow, sharp eyes. That's why we were afraid of him. The teacher never told us to be afraid of him.

Our teacher has only been at school for about three months now. He has been testing our class on his own terms. As far as I can remember, no one has passed. But the teacher is neither angry nor scolds.

"I'm glad to know the correct answer, hey, I like it that way. Now... the first student to get the highest score of 12 points in English alone, hey, let's try it."

My friend Kyaw Oo stood up with a sigh. The teacher smiled and nodded, satisfied.

"Now... and I want to see Sandar Linlet, who has two eggs in a multi-religious group, try it out."

Sandar, who everyone knew was the most handsome in our class, stood up. He was also laughing.

“Now... Sandar Linlet, go sit next to Kyaw Oo. Kyaw Oo is the best in the class, so I will make Sandar, the weakest, my teacher. If Sandar doesn’t get the right answer or makes a mistake, I won’t beat Sandar Linlet. His teacher will beat you, Kyaw Oo. Do you understand what I’m saying? Now... Ma Kyi Ma gets second. Try it.” In this way, the teacher pairs the students with the levels (1) and (59), (2) and (58), etc., so there are exactly two pairs of students in our class. The teachers have to place the students next to each other.

The teacher's rule is that if the teacher makes a mistake, he gets one hit, and if the student makes a mistake, he gets five hits. If the student makes a mistake, the teacher hits him and he is not allowed to be hit. He only gets hit. If the teacher makes a mistake, the student can answer, hit him, and get away with it. Then the student is the teacher and the teacher is the student again. Therefore, the students who do not like the teacher often miss the opportunity to become the teacher again, just as the student who does not get the letter from the teacher and becomes the student again has to study to become the teacher again.

Because of this system, no one in our batch (E) class failed in the first semester, setting a record. In the exam for that semester, the teacher also divided the grades into pairs as usual, and taught the students in pairs (25). Among them, my student was a girl named Yin Yin Yi.

That Yin Yin is a fat girl and her mind is Thai. When she laughs, she looks like a little child, and when she cries, she looks like a little monster. Therefore, Yin Yin is always a little monster.

Because she is a girl, she is good at studying, so she went to the Two Cats Library.

It's not obvious, but it's quite far from the point of calculation. If you make mistakes and don't learn, you won't know anything. That's why I have to work harder than the students and teachers.

The system that the teacher has set up is a system that makes the student feel more attached to the teacher than to himself. In that case, in addition to memorizing a text for myself, I also have to explain it to him so that he understands, so it takes about five times the effort of regular studying. For example, I had to teach him with various examples, so that text was not only confusing but also difficult for me.

"You know that if you multiply like signs, you get plus, and if you multiply unlike signs, you get minus. If you know this, how could you make a mistake? If you add + 3 and + 9 here.."

+ "12"

"Now... okay, if you multiply +7 by +4.."

“Well... there...+1+21”

“OK... OK... If you add -6 and -8...”

Yin Yin's expression changed. She looked at me.

And I don't know what to do.

Hotel (-)

"What..."

“No (+)”

I was disappointed. I shouted at (-) and it became (+)? It turned out that this was the correct answer because there were only two signs.

"I told you, if the signs are the same, it's (+), if they're different, it's (-), so here, the minus is the same..."

"Minus"

I felt like dying. I knew that I couldn't study with anger, so today I changed my mind and studied in a hot and furious way. I didn't study the (+) and (-) thing. But in my mind, the thought of how to make him understand those (+) and (-) dominated.

When the teacher asked me to calculate the ball, I was right and he was wrong for a moment and I was about to get five strokes. Finally, I got the best example for (+) and minus. I was very happy.

"Now... I'll give you an example. If you have a girlfriend who is not allowed by your friends (+) teachers and parents at home (-), then you'll end up in trouble. Right?" Lakha asked.