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Well I hope to do it more often
Chapter 4Yokoyama Yui hadn’t always dreamt in being a teacher. Her first love was math and excelled before college came and gave her the path to become a teacher instead with a class that change her life. She wasn’t in love with the class when it first started as just a prerequisite for other classes but Communications seemed to catch her attention as she could get ideas out much better than her classmates but to pursue the area, she had to give up her first love.
A year had passed as she tried to balance it out and the challenge was becoming difficult that she had made the decision to become a teacher instead. She was hired quickly after graduation and seemed anxious as the class was probably the worst of the three that was usually given to the lowest on the totem pole. However, they were raucous until she walked in with a stern expression.
“Ohayou!”
“Ohayou!” The class shouted back before the representative stood up and bowed to the class.
“Welcome to IDOLS!” Yokoyama announced while writing her name on the board. “It shall be a fun semester here.”
The students stared blankly at the woman as she dragged the white board from the side of the room to the front, writing up an equation onto the board.
“This is what we are planning to learn for the term. Algebra!” She pointed to the board as the students sat in their seats, nodding with her. The class felt as stiff as she was and waited for the hand before trying to continue her thought.
“Yokoyama-sensei!” She raised her hand up into the air as the teacher glanced at her grade book.
“Yes, Yamaguchi-san.”
“I think the answer is seven.” She said in a soft voice which Yui smiled at as she wrote down the answer.
“Good job.” She erased the board when another hand had risen above the rest. “Yes!”
“Usually teachers say where they’re from or tell about their stories. We want to know.” He explained.
Yui had always thought that the word Kyoto never matched her personally. She always said Kyoto to get certain expectations from them but those usually would crumble that Tokyo had now consumed her lifestyle and the past that had brought Kyoto up was only her parents and that even became a rarity. Now, would she even dare bring up the fact that she was born in a traditional city to only be modern like every Tokyoite known to people.
“I was born in Kyoto and moved to Tokyo for schooling.” She said in a monotonous tone. The students nodded for her as she turned to the whiteboard and without considering what was going to be asked next, she had spun around and saw the hand pointed up. “Yes?”
“Kyoto is a nice city…” She commented as Yui hid a small smile creating on her face.
“It is… Now I can continue on my lesson.” Yui nodded as she finished the problem on the board. “Break into small groups and help each other solve this problem.”
She returned to her seat, slouching over as the students communicated among each other to get into their respective groups. Yui hadn’t cared for anything except for getting the point across of helping each other without saying to help each other. Seemingly, the noise came down as she glanced up at the clock to get them on a quickened pace. Yui glanced at the book as she mentally wrote down the answer in her head as the red hand had passed the top.
“Okay, everyone take a space and write your answer.” She instructed as she saw them come up in a group and took their positions. As each started to pull away, many had the right answer and some missed certain calculations. To her it was normal as she read off each of the numbers and announced who had the right answer before starting with another one with their excitement seemed to be growing among the groups. Yui wrote it up as they started to work diligently on the problem. Yui watched them intently as the time came and stopped them to write up the answer.
She saw the answers and confirmed they all were correct and started up on a lesson as they opened their books and started to scribble in their books. Yui elaborated on every bit of the information with no one looking up at her as she wrote down everything onto the board before the bell ran and everyone had escaped out of the room.
Yui knew the schedule was a break next as she closed the door and sat in her chair as she looked over the grade book. Her mind sourced on one thing and that was the fact that the students were not the best but they had potential. She had confidence in others as she leaned back in the chair when a knock had made her whirl of her chair. The door opened as the woman in a white dress stood outside with a slight smile on her face.
“Hello?” The woman greeted as she walked into the room.
“Who are you?” Yui asked as she gave a bow to Yui.
“I’m Shimazaki Haruka, the nurse for the school.”
“Ah, I’m Yokoyama Yui. The math teacher I guess.” She laughed as the nurse took a seat in the room.
“It feels weird that for the first day, I never had so many students sick.” She laughed as Yui chuckled with her.
“Maybe because it is a cute nurse.” Yui replied as her eyes widened.
“I can’t be cute, Yokoyama-sensei.” She retorted as she stood up from the desk. “Anyways, I’m just doing my rounds to introduce myself.”
“Okay, Shimzaki-san.” Yui waved toward her.
“Call me Paru!” She shouted back as Yui closed the door to prep for her next class.