"Osmosis" - A True Story...... :P

As I sit through my Bio Period, a quarry of thoughts rush through my mind...

Pay attention to class, or watch the Chess Tournament taking place in the last three benches?

Answer sir's next question, or play football in the vacant space behind the last bench?

Jot down a summary of today's class, or work on my newest blog post???

This time, I decided to be the good kid. I listened to (read: vacantly stared at) Shanawas sir (whom we have lovingly dubbed "Osmosis") explain what he called "infectionating" diseases, and I tried - Heaven help me, I TRIED- to cram the scientific name of some microbe into my already full head. 

But (and there always is a 'but'), it was hard to ignore what was going on around me. Whether it was Zoheib passing around a can of Red Bull for us to drink, or Lasin jumping up and down because his rook had taken out Basith's queen, or even Taha listening INTENTLY to sir's class, the weirdness of it all (extreme weirdness, in Taha's case) got to me, and the temptation to do something out-of-the-box was trying to drag me to the dark side.

Honestly, I resisted. I tried to concentrate on helicobacter pylori and peptic ulcers, but someone up there had a different course lined up for me... Suddenly, Mossab lying on his bench and chewing gum (and asking me why i was staring at him) and Kamran scribbling graffiti on the wall hit me like a ton of bricks...

Was I the only one (excluding Taha... That guy is a medical miracle!) paying even the slightest attention to the class? I looked around, and my worst fears were confirmed. From dodge-ball to eating Al-Baik, everyone was doing something that was NOT studying.

Then, I cracked.

And as Osmosis sir left the class, and I finished writing this blog post, I was glad I did.