In part 1, I was talking about the true story of a girl’s experiences when helping in her family business. This is the part 2 of her true story. In this part 2, I am going to tell what she had gone through in her life of studying in Pre-school until Primary School days.
She is a girl that is hardworking and is willing to put her efforts studying, unfortunately, she is unable to find the proper formula in her studies. After she read the books and attend class, when comes to exam, she will be having difficulties answering the questions.
During Pre-school, she still able to handle it proper and there is one time, she got the first in her class. Her parents was so proud of her and even photocopy her report book and stick on the refrigerator. When comes to primary school, her parents enrolled her to a private school. They want her to have a good and proper education. She is thankful for the sacrifices that her parents given to her even though they are not really that rich.
Unfortunately, when comes to Standard 3, when she was 9years old, she starts to have difficulties in her studies. She tried her best to study it harder and harder but her marks getting lower and lower. There is always a saying which is “We got to Study Smart and not Study Hard”. She knows it but how to study smart? No one are able to teach her.
Because of her poor results, she always get scolded by her parents, especially her mother. Her mother started to compare her with her grandma’s neighbor who is same age with her. She feels so stress all of the time. Efforts were put in, time was spent to studies but still she failed to manage. She is out of idea. Sometimes, looking at the textbook, it was wet by her tears. All she can do it cried silently and thinking what will happen when she gets her results. She hopes that her parents will comfort her as she is feeling insecure but everything was in vain. Each time when she tries to tell out the difficulties in her studies, her parents will just said that she did not study harder. She just able to share and express her problems with the wall.
When she was in Standard 5, she got the last in her class in the mid-term. She was so afraid to tell her parents and start to lied that the results is not out yet. Unfortunately, one day, her mother met with one of the friends. Her friend told her mother that the result was out long ago. Well, for sure this girl was scolded by her parents. Then comes to Standard 6, she get last in the class again. There are times, she feel like running away from home but she just unable to let her parents to live alone and she know it well that if she had gone missing, her parents will be very worried.
Standard 6 is a very crucial moment for students in Malaysia because they will be going through a National Exam which is called as UPSR. She needs to go through 5 subjects and she is having problem with her Science Subjects. Luckily, her science teacher is very helpful. He is an Indian. He taught her with all of his patient. Slowly, there are improvement with her results.
She tells herself, she needs to try her best to get the best results so that no one will ever insult her. She starts to feel sick of being compared by her mother and family with those smarter children. She hate her family so much that laugh at her without understanding her suffers and without looking at the efforts that she had put in.
Her mother told her, if she could get full As, her mother will buy her a scooter, play station and gameboy. Actually, these is not what she wanted after all. She just want people to stop commenting about her.
Finally, it come to the day where she is going to get her UPSR result. On that particular day, she fall sick. Maybe she was too stressed up with the out-come of the result. Her friend phone her and said that she got full As. She is unable to believe it until the next day when she goes to school, her name was highlighted as one of the top scorer. She remembers clearly that her father was proud with the results but her mother still feel that it is not enough. Why her mother feel that it is not enough? Well, it is back to her grandma’s neighbor child. That child got 7As while this girl got 5As. Actually it is not the fault of this girl because her school had less 2 subjects which is the Chinese Studies.
She still remember her mother said that “You only Get Only 5As but your grandma’s neighbor got 7As”. Although it is just a sentence that could come out of the mouth so easily, but this really hurting to her. She was thinking, it is not her fault, it is just that her school did not include the Chinese Studies then how can she take the exam?
As for her so called gifts if get full As promised by her mother, of course, everything was in vain. Anyway, she never blame her mother for breaking the promise because she understand well that her family is going through financial difficulties. In the end, looking at her own UPSR results, she tells herself, she finally did it.
(to be continued…….)
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It is like this with many girls in developing countries.Many of them start very early to help their parents in household chores.Others are engaged in hawking fruits,vegetables and other products.The girl in this passage needs encouragement not scolding.There are girls who learn gradually but with household burdens their ebb in learning becomes reduced.I advice parents to use sweet words of encouragement to raise the morale of the girls in their household.The application of heartbreaking words should be discarded.