My favourite class

When I was in high cchool my favourite class was Entertainment. We had an almost entirely absent teacher whose dismal efforts left us in a dire position when it came the HSC. In 2010 we started with about 10 people, only one of which was I actually friends with. But as the year went on and people dropped out or just stopped turning up to class we were left with 5 people including myself.

Our average Entertainment class consisted of the 5 of us walking around pointlessly as we had no teacher. We usually had tasks to do but they were usually very easy and took a matter of minutes. Because of this those 3 other people that I had barely ever spoken to became close friends in a very short period of time. We formed a kind of makeshift community. After a while we started dragging friends from free periods. And very quickly this small class turned into a bigger one as we brought more people in and formed our unoffical entertainment class. While other groups at school had people that had fights with each other and other nonsense we remained entirely drama-less. Instead we just listened to music, swung on the rope swing which was in place for the musical and found ways to amuse ourselves. After a while my friends had become theirs and theirs mine. It was almost like a social experiment that our teacher accidentally imposed on us.

I know this all sounds sappy, but the moral of my poorly told tale is that small classes usually end with better friendships. Also, negligent teachers are sometimes a blessing.