English preliminary oral examination

English has always been the medium I use to get on with life, so something such as my school's english preliminary oral examination was a piece of cake. But sadly, everyone was to report to school at 7:45am, regardless of the order. What's even worse, I was the last person to be tested. The time for the first session shown on our student's oral slip showed 7:45 to 10:00a.m. Great, just great. Now all I have to do now is wait for at least 2 hours.

Which I did in agony. At first, it was not all that bad. A glance at nearby friends, a brief chat with my fellow classmates who were going to be tested earlier than me, and nevertheless, spending most of my time seated uncomfortably on the cold hall floor with the latest Reader's Digest Select Edition on my lap.

A quick glimpse of the hall clock an hour and a half later, was subsequently followed by the stretching of my legs and eventually the closing of my book. No amount of gripping plot would be able to overcome the boredom that increased by the second. Sighing to myself then, I wondered why the idea of arriving at the hall at the latest by 9 did not seem to occur to me. After all, I knew I was going to be the last one tested, why not come abit later? I guess doing things by the book may not be the best solution after all.

As you know, we have 10 minutes to study both the passage and the picture discussion. The topic of the conversation would be somewhat be similar to the former two. Both the passage and the picture discussion were studied briefly but thoroughly. Both were about musical instruments. So I obviously assumed that the conversation was about the musical instruments.

Who would have guess, that when I was to be tested, one teacher asked: 'Okay, we'll now go on to the conversation. Now tell us, what was the most recent musical event that I've been to?' One second. Two seconds. Change of plans. And then I began.

I have a pretty good feeling that the teachers (two of them, if you're still wondering) were quite impress, even after 2 hours of non-stop listening to the us students. Still, I'm glad that the oral examination was over; I felt more bored than nervous throughout the whole examination. :p