Night study for Exam, Soungjin [ereader ebook .txt] 📗

Another day of my last day of exam. I was scared and frightened, “what if I fail or get a bad grade?”
This test was the final test of my life, and vital for my success in the future. I got to my wooden L-shaped desk, putting down Calculous textbook. I slammed it and opened to page 50, page 50,50, 50 ah there it is. The book was old I could even smell the old scent of paper. I turned on the nearest lamp as the room was filled with darkness. ‘Okay, I just need to review this and algebra then im back to diablo 3.’
I sat to my office chair, and pushing myself closer to the table. I sighed. I took my 2b pencil and worked out the problem. 2x+y=4 and 4x+5y=33, hmmm what is the answer. I layed my face down, thinking if I succeed, will it be Harvard or Princeton or Kaist. Its been years since I thought of what university I would go. I flipped couple of pages and found something new I didn’t practice, hmm I need this, thank god I seen this. I solved the problem and went on.
I looked at the clock, it was 11pm, time for Big Bang Theory. I closed all my books and turned on my new Sangsung Laptop.I typed in my password and watched BigBang theory
‘The whole universe was a hot dense stae….” I loved that show. I watched it for 30 minutes until someone opened the door.
“Oh god!” I yelled. But it was my retriever. I padded him in the head. His shiny fur was soft and somewhat a good armrest. Poach looked to me, he wiggled his tail and his eyes were staring at me. I stood up, going to the kitchen. I got his favourite food, Dog Os, gave him 500g, as the doctors say, and threw it to him. He started munching the food fast and fell asleep him his blue sleepbag I bought for him since he was young. I went to my room yawning. I was tired but my future depends in this test.
Time seems so fast, it feels like yesterday I was only a child. I thought time was slower than a snail but I was wrong, time is fast. I made a theory that if I concentrated on one thing time passes slow but if I don’t, time is slow. I sat back down the my chair, resting and leaning my body to the chair. The brightness made my eyes lower that made me more sleepy, but I must resist. I stood up stretching my body, feet to head. Some had some cracking sounds and some had a bad cramp. I sat back down and fresh. I reopened my book and read algebra.
While I was reading some instruction and tips for solving inequalities, something fell on my glasses, I took my glasses off, I found a white hair. It was something normal for me. I took the white hair and threw it in the back. I faced back to see my brother sleeping with my parents. I stood up, covering my brother in blankets, he smiled later while he slept.
I went back to work, hoping I could catch up with my other work, such as SAT and Korean Math. Later I thought why not have a small break, like a nap. I took my toy clock, set it to 3pm and put my keg in the top of my table and slept.
‘oh ba oh ba ei runa, an geremion tongchim er han da’ I woke up to my alarm. (brother brother wake up, or I’ll punch you on your butt). I woke up seeing its 3pm. My leg was cramped and my arms were cramped. I had to stand up and strench again. I couldn’t, I was in pain. So I sat down for a moment. If I fail this test and with SAT, I would be like my father, a builder for the company Hyundai, earning less than 100 dollars a day. I found my phone in my desk, grabbed it and unfolded it. I called my friend. No reply.
Finally all the cramp were gone I felt relieved. I looked to the book and got a ‘pin flying’ feelings, I don’t know this stuff. I quickly turned on my laptop, finding my problem. What is b+B^2-4ac? Ah there it is. I found it. I quickly took note of it in my arm.
“Sleep!” my dad woke up. He yelled and stood up. I tried to explain to him what was going on, my test and exam. My dad said not to give him excueses, and hit me on my head. My mother also woke up seeing me getting harassed by my dad. She quickly lured my dad back in, only wearing panty. I thanked my mom with a gesture. Luckily my mom is so gently, unlike my dad, I don’t understand why they married, but they cared each other a lot. My dad slept withouth hesitation.
I was tired and hungry but my dad couldn’t pay for dinner today. Only food I had was apple I stole from my friend. Although I was awake for a moment a while ago, now I felt weak. Bu t my family relied on me to succeed and pay for my family. I had to pay off debt for my family also. I was tired that I thought I couldn’t do this anymore, but I thought to my self, if I go into a good collage, who’d pay?
I was fighting over my sleepiness inside me. I thought why not a game of Diablo 3? But my self told em to ignore my old habit of rushing with work and playing game. I had to study, study was hope for me and my family. I looke back again, my brother woke up and drinking his water. My thoat was now quenched, grabbing the water next to me, and I gulped it down. I put down my glass slowly. I was tired indeed. I thought of sleeping now, slowly and graduately. Later I was fighting with my eyes, to resist my eyes from falling. I slapped my self, both to the cheeks, first to my right, then to my left. I thought of now resting and stop studying and hope for the best. It was useless to fight against my sleepiness and heard that studying late is useless. I went with my instinct to resist though, as I am still missing out some algebra chapters. I quickly ignored the practice section and reviewed the rest.
Later I found my self sleeping in the chair, and heard my mom saying to my dad, “I told you he would study well, lets wish him good luck.” And although I had experienced suffering from study, a sweetest feelings touched my cheeks, a feeling which I had experience little, and made my suffer into a thin air.

Publication Date: 07-30-2012

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Dedication:
to my parents who supported what I studied