Chapter 2 SUFFERING, SUCCESSFUL
I was in grade 1, hardly anyone taught me and I was always absent from school. One day when I went to school, I got poked in the eye by a pencil because of my classmate who was jumping up and down. My older brother Zach went to my classmate who had poked me in the eye and he fought me. I was in grade 2 this year and I did something big wrong to my teacher. It was embarrassing, but I just let it go. I also remembered that my classmates were also at fault here, so they made us write 1 to 1000. When I was in grade 3, I started to be the naughty one in our room and not study well, because my stepfather always scolded me, saying that no one would take care of my siblings.
He scolded me because I was stupid, he said I had no value in the world because I wasn't smart. So he told me not to study for now because he said I would never achieve anything in life, he said I was lazy. He scolded me because I was stupid, he said I had no value in the world because I wasn't smart. So he told me not to study for now because he said I would never achieve anything in life, he said I was lazy.
I was in grade 4, my classmates and I were at fault because we wandered around, and when we said goodbye, we just gave my friend's grandmother medicine even though she didn't need it. It was recess time, but we were already too late. That's why our teacher scolded us. This year, I started having friends to play with and they would hang out with us at 3pm. There were a lot of them, sometimes I was late because they put us to bed at 1pm, so I just pretended to sleep and waited for them to go to sleep before I left the house to play. When 4pm came, they were already awake and they saw me playing outside so I kept getting beaten up, sometimes I got beaten up. Until I graduated from grade 4, I also had honors, rank 4.
Our neighbors see what my stepfather is doing to me. Sometimes they hear me crying. My father had a stroke and when they brought him home, I was the one who took care of him. Until I became a working student for my stepfather's sister, MJ, who was also pregnant, I was a housekeeper. I was in grade 5, we only started the Covid 19 module at home, the others studied online, I couldn't go online because I didn't have a cellphone. Sometimes I was jealous of my classmates because they had something and I didn't have it.
Until I graduated grade 5 with honor rank 4 still because I left my work to my classmate because I couldn't do it. I'm in grade 6 pandemic still just at home locked up inside. I'm with high honors and I'm hardworking and I pass projects.
I became a working student so I could graduate from elementary school, it was very difficult especially if your bosses didn't like you. I always cried whenever they scolded me. They were too angry when they thought I was a dog. But I still succeeded in the face of hardship.
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