Hello, everyone.
This is my own story. It is the story of a little girl who was very shy
and scared of people. Her life turns around when a new teacher comes to teach
in her school.
Read on and find out what happened.
Shy Little Sandra
Sandra was an eight year old girl. She loved school and she loved all
the lessons, but there was a big problem. She was a very shy and scared little
girl. She just could not understand as how other children mingled with each
other so freely and talked and laughed. They even talked to the teachers like
they were their friends. She couldn’t even greet a teacher when she saw one in
the corridor let alone talk to one. She felt like the ground would give way and
she would get swallowed up! She felt so scared. The teachers thought she was
shy and would get over it when she grew up and let it go at that.
One
day the headmistress came to the class and told them that they were going to
have a new class-teacher as their old one was being transferred to another
school. The new teacher’s name was Miss Elaine Brown.
The
next day, Miss Elaine came and introduced herself. The class settled down to
work. As the days went by Miss Elaine noticed Sandra’s strange behaviour. She asked
other teachers about it and she could get was that she was a very shy little
girl and would not talk to anyone. Miss Elaine was not at all satisfied with
this answer. She decided to get to the bottom of this matter.
The
next day, she called Sandra to the staffroom when no-one was there and she knew
that Sandra had a free period. Sandra was scared to death as to why her teacher
wanted to see her. Normally teachers only called the children to the staffroom
when they had misbehaved or done something wrong. As she was walking to the
staffroom all kinds of thoughts were going on in her head. She was on the edge
of tears when she reached there. She knocked nervously and waited.
“Come
in,” said Miss Elaine and Sandra entered the room.
Miss
Elaine smiled kindly at her. Sandra smiled back somewhat relieved that her
teacher did not look angry or anything of the sort. She went and stood near her
teacher.
“Do
you know why I have called you here?” her teacher asked.
Sandra shook her head.
“I
have called you here to know if something is wrong or what,” said Miss Elaine. “I
have been watching you ever since I got here. Why are you so shy? Or is it that
you are scared of something?”
Sandra
just looked down and did not say anything.
“Sandra,
look at me,” said the teacher. “I am worried about you that’s why I called you
here. Can you please tell me why you are behaving like this?”
“I
don’t know, Miss,” said Sandra in a small voice.
Then,
her teacher asked if she ever went out to buy anything for her mother or if she
went to play at her friend’s house?
Sandra
explained that her mother went to buy everything even if was to a nearby shop. She
was not allowed to go to her friends’ house to play and so even her friends did
not come to play with her. The only friends she had were in school.
Miss
Elaine was surprised to hear all this. She looked at Sandra who was standing
there looking like a scared rabbit. She made up her mind and wrote a letter
which she put it in an envelope and gave it to Sandra to give it to her mother.
She had called Sandra’s mother to come and see her the next day.
Sandra’s
mother was very much puzzled as to why would Sandra’s class teacher would want
to see her.
Sandra’s
mother, Mrs. Jones went to see the teacher the next day.
After
the introductions were over Miss Elaine asked Mrs. Jones a lot of questions and
then when she learned that what Sandra had told her was true she explained to
her that it would be a good idea for her to let her daughter mingle with other
children and let her go out to buy things in the neighbourhood so that she
would know how to behave with people and overcome her shyness. Mrs. Jones agreed
to do as Miss Elaine said.
Suddenly,
Sandra found herself going to buy things and told to make friends with the
neighbour’s children.
Miss
Elaine called the monitor of the class and told her to tell other children to
be more friendly to Sandra.
Suddenly, Sandra found herself going to buy
things and told to make friends with the neighbour’s children.
In
the class as well everyone was trying to be friends with her.
Sandra
started to change as well. Soon she was no longer scared or shy of people.
One
day, as she was walking down the corridor she met Miss Elaine. Sandra greeted
her with a smile. Miss Elaine stopped her to talk to her.
“Why,
Sandra, you have changed completely,” she said, pleased.
Sandra
just smiled at her and did not say anything.
“If
there is anything,” went on Miss Elaine, “you can always come and talk to me,
alright?”
“Yes,
Miss,” replied Sandra and added shyly, “thank you so much for all that you have
done for me.”
And
now Sandra is different person. She has many friends and is always helpful to
everyone around her thanks to her teacher.
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