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Things that have made us cringe with embarrasment make interesting reading. They may have been embarrassing at the time but we all tend to laugh at the the incident afterwards. Write about your most embarrassing moment in this stall and we promise to laugh with you not at you.

My First Class edit

This incident happened at the Bilkent University School of English Language. I had been offered work as a language instructor there. I had been there about a week and had seen the class I was due to teach. I had met my colleagues, had my orientation and prepared my lessons. It was now day one, lesson one and I was sitting in the staff room waiting for the bell to mark the beginning of the lesson.

As I waited I glanced over my lesson plans once more. After a while, when no bell had gone I glanced at my watch. It was past the scheduled time of the class and I wondered why the bell hadn't been rung. There was one other teacher in the staffroom, Richard. "The bells a bit late today, Richard," I commented. "Oh no," he said. "The bell doesn't go for this lesson, only for the longer ones. You'd better hurry." I groaned. I was fifteen minutes late for my first lesson. I grabbed my books and files and rushed out of the door.

It was just my luck that the class was three floors down in the basement. I flew down the stairs and once I got to the bottom floor I turned sharply and slipped on the freshly polished stone floor. My legs were airborne and flew up in front of me and I landed on the floor with a large bump on my bottom. The books I had been holding flew in all directions and landed in a circle around me. I raised my head slightly and saw my student standing in a line outside their class looking at me in complete silence. They then quietly filed into the classroom leaving me lying on the floor alone in the empty corridor.

I groaned again and put my head back down on the stone floor wishing the ground to open up and swallow me. I lay there for a minute but like it or not I had to get up and go into that classroom. I picked myself up, I hadn't hurt anything except my ego, gathered up my books and with as much dignity as I could muster I walked towards my classroom. I had no idea what I would say when I got in there and my mind had frozen with fear.

When I opened the door and walked in, twenty faces looked at me and I looked back at them. "You have slippery floors here'" I said quietly, almost to myself as I walked towards the center of the classroom and managed to give a sheepish chuckle before I got onto the job at hand. Thankfully the incident was soon forgotten and the class turned out to be really nice, even if they didn't rush forward to help me up. In fact, I would have been even more embarrassed if they had so they probably made the best move by discretely removing themselves from the situation. This was the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me but the second most embarrassing thing was to happen the following day. (See next story)

by Tanwir Shah

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