Soul.EXE
Ms. McKernan watched Sari with interest. She often wondered about her, but she tried not letting it bug her. She watched her type intensively, bent down at her computers if that's all that existed. Her other students were happily chattering to each other, and discussing what they were doing. But there was something strange about the way Sari was bent over her computer like that, and so glued to the screen. There was just something not right, some feeling Ms McKernan just could not explain. In all her years teaching year 10 Information Technology at Kilbreda Girls, she had never thought so much about one student. It was as if she was just not meant to be sitting there. She turned away, and continued to type at her laptop while the girls went on with their work. "Sari.. mine's not working!" A girl called Simone cried out. Sari got up in a huff and in a matter of moments the problem was fixed. Ms. McKernan was kinda glad that she was in her class. She did shut Simone up a lot.
"Hey, Sari, how far did you get into your program?" Jade jumped up beside Sari as they were walking out from the info tech class.
"Yeah, nearly finished. Just a few more if statements to do, and I'm done!" Sari said proudly. She was working on a program in a program editor called Visual Basic. That's what they were studying in class.
"Yeah, same, except I just can't get that stupid case select thingy to work" Jaded mumbled. They continued to walk to their next class, which they had no idea what it was.
"Jade, what do we have next?" Sari questioned.
"Don't ask me, ask my diary"
"Hmm, " Sari pulled out the green book with the picture of Kilbreda High in gold on it. The school was old fashioned, as it was started in 1904 by a bunch of brigedine nuns. Kilbreda meant "house of Briged"
"We have RE now"
"Oh, great, just what I felt like" Jade mumbled sarcastically. They quickly walked to their class, and took a seat.
"Good morning girls," Ms. Mikros, the RE teacher started the class, "today, we are going to discuss how religion impacts our life. For instance, what do we think about life after death? Who agrees with it, and why? And what is heaven like" She ask heaps of questions to get the discussion started. A couple of girls put their hands up. "I believe that there is a place called heaven, and If you are good you get in" someone commented. "I reckon that the grim reaper takes us to another world when we die, regardless of what we have done"
"I think heaven and hell are in the same place. Only the people that deserved to go to heaven help each other out to make it heaven. People of hell make their own hell, if that makes sense." Maria, one of my classmates tried to explain.
"Very good. I like that" Ms. Mikros praised. Than she began to talk about how religion has impacted the world, and why it existed.
"Sari, why do you think the world need religion?" she asked.
"Because people always need to explain everything. People are afraid of the unknown. If anything happens that no body understands, they blame it on God" Sari finished with a smile on her face.
"Yeah but Buddhists don't believe in a God" some one shot back.
"Yeah but they kinda do" another girl rebutted. Sari shook her head as the argument started. She wandered about what she would do when she got home. Straight on the computer to finish her Visual Basic Program. Forget the other homework. That was a passion that burnt in her soul. It really felt like it. Sari knew that she would be a computer programmer when she grew up, and would make the $. It was strange that while she was at school, so many of her classmates found computers so dull, yet the computer industry was booming. Than she realized that she went to an all girls school. The bell for the end of the day went, disrupting her daydreams. Sari quickly grabbed her bag and packed her things away quickly. As she was packing, she began to wonder what happened when you die. She continued to think about it as she was being driven home.
"Hey Sari, Brain Story is tonight on channel two. I think you may be interested" Sari's mother informed her. She didn't really care. She was sick of her parent make her watch all these stupid documentaries.
"The brain is a lot like computers." her dad laughed. Maybe just the first ten minutes, just to please her parents. So off they drove until they reached home. Sari rushed straight to her room, and onto the computer. She practically threw her disk into the computer as it was booting up.
"System Error. Non system disk" a message pooped up on the computer. She quickly took the disk, pressed enter, and put it back in. She tapped her feet impatiently as windows XP was loading up. After it was done, she opened up her A drive.
"Wrong disk," she muttered to herself. She turned to her school bag, but instead of the large green backpack, there was a brand new shinny laptop in its place.
Ms. McKernan watched Sari with interest. She often wondered about her, but she tried not letting it bug her. She watched her type intensively, bent down at her computers if that's all that existed. Her other students were happily chattering to each other, and discussing what they were doing. But there was something strange about the way Sari was bent over her computer like that, and so glued to the screen. There was just something not right, some feeling Ms McKernan just could not explain. In all her years teaching year 10 Information Technology at Kilbreda Girls, she had never thought so much about one student. It was as if she was just not meant to be sitting there. She turned away, and continued to type at her laptop while the girls went on with their work. "Sari.. mine's not working!" A girl called Simone cried out. Sari got up in a huff and in a matter of moments the problem was fixed. Ms. McKernan was kinda glad that she was in her class. She did shut Simone up a lot.
"Hey, Sari, how far did you get into your program?" Jade jumped up beside Sari as they were walking out from the info tech class.
"Yeah, nearly finished. Just a few more if statements to do, and I'm done!" Sari said proudly. She was working on a program in a program editor called Visual Basic. That's what they were studying in class.
"Yeah, same, except I just can't get that stupid case select thingy to work" Jaded mumbled. They continued to walk to their next class, which they had no idea what it was.
"Jade, what do we have next?" Sari questioned.
"Don't ask me, ask my diary"
"Hmm, " Sari pulled out the green book with the picture of Kilbreda High in gold on it. The school was old fashioned, as it was started in 1904 by a bunch of brigedine nuns. Kilbreda meant "house of Briged"
"We have RE now"
"Oh, great, just what I felt like" Jade mumbled sarcastically. They quickly walked to their class, and took a seat.
"Good morning girls," Ms. Mikros, the RE teacher started the class, "today, we are going to discuss how religion impacts our life. For instance, what do we think about life after death? Who agrees with it, and why? And what is heaven like" She ask heaps of questions to get the discussion started. A couple of girls put their hands up. "I believe that there is a place called heaven, and If you are good you get in" someone commented. "I reckon that the grim reaper takes us to another world when we die, regardless of what we have done"
"I think heaven and hell are in the same place. Only the people that deserved to go to heaven help each other out to make it heaven. People of hell make their own hell, if that makes sense." Maria, one of my classmates tried to explain.
"Very good. I like that" Ms. Mikros praised. Than she began to talk about how religion has impacted the world, and why it existed.
"Sari, why do you think the world need religion?" she asked.
"Because people always need to explain everything. People are afraid of the unknown. If anything happens that no body understands, they blame it on God" Sari finished with a smile on her face.
"Yeah but Buddhists don't believe in a God" some one shot back.
"Yeah but they kinda do" another girl rebutted. Sari shook her head as the argument started. She wandered about what she would do when she got home. Straight on the computer to finish her Visual Basic Program. Forget the other homework. That was a passion that burnt in her soul. It really felt like it. Sari knew that she would be a computer programmer when she grew up, and would make the $. It was strange that while she was at school, so many of her classmates found computers so dull, yet the computer industry was booming. Than she realized that she went to an all girls school. The bell for the end of the day went, disrupting her daydreams. Sari quickly grabbed her bag and packed her things away quickly. As she was packing, she began to wonder what happened when you die. She continued to think about it as she was being driven home.
"Hey Sari, Brain Story is tonight on channel two. I think you may be interested" Sari's mother informed her. She didn't really care. She was sick of her parent make her watch all these stupid documentaries.
"The brain is a lot like computers." her dad laughed. Maybe just the first ten minutes, just to please her parents. So off they drove until they reached home. Sari rushed straight to her room, and onto the computer. She practically threw her disk into the computer as it was booting up.
"System Error. Non system disk" a message pooped up on the computer. She quickly took the disk, pressed enter, and put it back in. She tapped her feet impatiently as windows XP was loading up. After it was done, she opened up her A drive.
"Wrong disk," she muttered to herself. She turned to her school bag, but instead of the large green backpack, there was a brand new shinny laptop in its place.