Teaching

The silence was unnerving and Vyvyan felt beads of sweat form on his forehead. All the kids stared at him… Waiting for him to do something, as if studying his actions.

He bravely cleared his throat "Well, uh… Good morning." He stepped over to the front of the class where the teacher's desk was beside the whiteboard, which was next to a blackboard with various other paper panels along the walls for displaying student work. At the moment, they were empty with only revision posters and diagrams taken from books dotted the occasional space.

Vyvyan dumped his bag full of… "Teaching equipment" onto the floor, which sent out a small vibration along the floor, and picked up a whiteboard marker. Glancing back at the class then back to the board, he wrote out in big, scraggly letters and underlining it clumsily…

"VYvYan"

Some of the children sniggered while others whispered to each other in concern. Vyvyan turned around after underlining his name so hard that it flatten the marker top. He looked at it, shook it, and then threw it behind him. It hit the wall and fell into the bin.

He took a deep breath and rested his hands on his belt. This kids shouldn't be too bad "My name is Vyvyan." He paused but then, wisely added "Any of you little snobs make fun o' it," he shook a finger warningly at the class "I'll give ya a nipple cripple." The boys cringed and crossed their arms over their chests while the girls sighed, bored. Vyvyan turned to them "That goes for you ladies too." The girls gasp and shrunk in their seats, apart from Sam who just smirked. Vyvyan ignored this and slumped into the comfy teacher's chair behind the desk.

He twiddled his thumbs before finally asking "So… What do ya do now?" He leant on the desk while his hand fiddled with his right ear. No one answered. He mumbled then pointed to Osman "You, boy, what lesson do ya have now?"

Osman hesitated "Well, we usually have geography now, but it's already half-way over."

"Oh…" Vyvyan sniffed "Don't matter. You guys gimme a sec to check the guideline that bald prat gave me…"

Manaal sniggered "You mean Dr. Sola?"

"Yeah." He replied, not looking up from his search inside the desk drawers. Eventually, he found it "Aha! Got it!" he flicked it open and found the Geography section "'ere we are! I'm meant to be teaching you about… En… Enveeronmints and ech-echosey… echoseysteems." He frowned "What the hell is that?"

"You mean Environments and Ecosystems?" Ben Turner asked, quietly holding back laughter.

"Yeah! Precisely… What's that?" he scratched his head then pointed to Kirtsie "Oi! You, girl, what's what that kid just said?"

Kirstie hesitated "Um…" Sam whispered to her. Kirstie nodded "The definition of an Environment is basically described as your surroundings, for example, the desert is a camel's Environment."

Vyvyan nodded "Okay, that sorts enveeron-mints out, what about echoseysteems?" he leaned back and pointed to Stuart.

"An ecosystem is known as the relationships between flora and fauna in their natural habitat. For example, food chains." Stuart replied without having to think. Sam glared at him.

"Alrighty then. That's that!" Vyvyan smiled.

The kids looked to one another. Ben Thomas put his hand up to speak. Vyvyan nodded the "okay". "We have to do more than just knowing the definitions of environments and ecosystems…"

Vyvyan frowned "Like what?"

Ben sighed "Like studying what inhabits environments and the food chains in ecosystems would be a start."

"Okay." Vyvyan got up and strode over to the blackboard. He wrote the word "Ring-tailed Lemur" he then smirked at the class "What adaptations does this animal have?"

Various hands went up. Vyvyan pointed to Scott B. "It's tail is strong and flexible so it can act like a third limb."

"Yeah." Vyvyan wrote out the explanation in rather… Spaced out and mixed capital writing and drew a line form it to the word. He then pointed to Bertie.

"It's legs are well-built, allowing it to jump far and take long strides."

Vyvyan nodded and scribbled it out on the board. "Next?" he pointed to Sarah.

"They have tough padding on their paws to protect from thorny branches."

"Yep." He scrawled that down "Alright, hands down. Another question…" he walked over to the whiteboard "Why the hell am I ding this?" he muttered inaudibly under his breath. He raised his voice slightly "So, someone gimme a food chain." He nodded towards Scott R. "Come out 'ere and draw for us, on the board, a food chain then label it." He handed Scott the marker and sat back in his chair. He yawned and slumped his head on the table while Scott struggled to write on the board due to his height.

Vyvyan had forgot how tired he was. He hated having to work at all in the mornings. He began to drool onto the table, drifting off to sleep after only a minute. Scott nudged him "Sir? I've done the food chain." Vyvyan looked at Scott groggily.

"Are you the tooth fairy?" Vyvyan asked, dazed and still asleep, confusing Scott's size with a fairy.

"No." Scott returned to his seat quickly, fazed from the strange teacher.

Vyvyan shook himself back into reality and studied the picture drawn on the board. It had the labels in the correct place "Producer, Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer." And the arrows followed the correct direction. The animals used were "Water weed, pond skater, archer fish, crocodile" "Yeah, very good." Vyvyan said. He rubbed the boards clean and sat back down. He didn't want to do anymore teaching… Especially Geography. He sighed "Instead of continuing Geography, can we do summink else?"

"Like what?" Sam asked shrugging.

"I dunno…"

"Being called "boy" or "Girl" is very annoying, so why don't u learn our names?" Bertie suggested much to Vyvyan's dismay. It was better than anything else though.

"Alright." Vyvyan sighed "We'll start with this girl on my left." He gestured towards Manaal.

"I'm Manaal."

"I'm Sarah."

"I'm Kirstie."

Sam spoke in stitch's voice "I'm Samantha but call me Sam, never Sammy."

"I'm Bertie."

"I'm Stuart."

"I'm Ben."

"I'm Ben."

Vyvyan did a double-take "What's your last initials?"

They both looked at each other, laughed and replied simultaneously "Our initials are T."

Vyvyan tired to process this but put it aside "Whatever, Next."

"I'm Omar."

"I'm Osman."

"I'm Scott."

"I'm Scott."

Again Vyvyan looked shocked "I won't be able to remember. Thank God this class is a small one."

"Actually, loads of our class peeps are absent." Sarah said.

Vyvyan groaned and shook his head. The bell rang outside "What've you got now?" he asked, relieved that Geography was over.

Everyone in the class grinned. They couldn't wait to see how their new teacher could handle this one… They replied together, in unison "Drama!"

Hehe… how am I going to do this? o.O; XD