I didn`t know what to do. I had lots of homework to finish. I don`t know why, but at that moment I would have been happy to throw some punches at Orif. If I only could find him…
Me, and some other guys from school were going to write a demand letter to our principal. I decided to write it myself and went to school.
“To a school principal named after Pushkin, Mr. O. Azizov”
Demand letter
Mr. O. Azizov, it is becoming hard for pupils to study here, since we are always given lots of homework. That`s why we kindly ask you to exclude some subjects from the schedule: mathematics, geometry, native language. They give us nothing other than muddling our brains. They could be replaced with subjects about football instead. If you do so, we promise to do our best to study well. On behalf of other pupils:
Khoshimjon Ruziev.
Even though I finished the letter, I found no strength to give it to our principal. With eyes closed I finally went directly to Otajon Azizov`s room.
– What do you want son? – The principal asked.
– Hello dear teacher! – I said.
– Hello.
Without saying any word, I handed over the letter. Unfortunately, the situation later on was awful. An hour had passed, but there was no way the principal was going to stop explaining to me how all my proposed for exclusion subjects were important. According to him, without knowing these subjects it is impossible to become neither agronomist, nor an engineer, nor a zootechnician. But my inner voice at that moment was saying: “Rather than studying math, better to take a spanking from mom.
– Am I right? – The principal asked.
– No way! – I said. – Look at our agronomist Anorvoy. He has no education!
– He had no choice, he was forced to go to war to protect our lives!
The bad day was only beginning for me. The first subject was my “lovely” math.
– Ruziev, tell me, what was the previous lesson about? – our teacher asked suddenly.
Slowly standing up I tried to push Orif, who was sitting by me. He turned his face away, like he didn`t understand me. I pushed him harder, and he started to mumble something.
– Imple equations, – I stated.
I don`t know why, but the whole class started laughing. I joined them with great pleasure. I found out later that instead of “simple” I said “imple”.
– Ok, tell me the definition of simple equation? – The teacher continued.