His eyes didn’t only widen, his mouth also opened in awe. As said, he was familiar with Ryan and was also aware of what happened to him just as other people were aware.
So he wasn’t expecting to see him here at all, he was fucking surprised…Ryan was the last person he was expecting to see.
Ryan noticed the shocked expression that appeared on his face the moment he set eyes on him, and he wasn’t surprised at all ’cause this thing had happened over and over again.
That was the same expression that appeared on the faces of the people that heard of what happened to him and hadn’t seen him for a long time. The teacher just stood there glancing at him with that shocked expression still plastered on his face.
He wanted to speak, but he couldn’t just. Some seconds had to pass before he could bring himself to speak…
“Ryan, is that you?”.
..At least, he didn’t stutter.
Ryan nodded his head a little before saying, “Yes sir, it is me”.
“Wow! This is wonderful. I wasn’t expecting to see you here at all. When did you resume?”. The man inquired.
“Today”. Ryan responded.
“Today? Nice. I heard you were in a comma, when did you wake up from the comma?”.
“Some weeks ago, but I’ve been at home since then. It was just recently that my parents decided I resume schooling, that’s why I’m here”.
The man nodded his head a little before saying once again, “Wow! This is excellent. I can’t believe you woke up from the comma”.
A kind of perplexed expression appeared on Ryan’s face the moment the man made that statement. And it wasn’t only Ryan, a perplexed expression appeared on the faces of other students as well.
It was just like the man was hoping Ryan died from the comma with that statement he made. He noticed the expression that appeared on the faces of the students, including Ryan.
And he immediately discerned the reason for this was because of the statement he made. So he voiced out,
“Oh! I didn’t mean it that way, you guys shouldn’t misquote my statement. What I’m saying is that you were in a comma for a long time, Ryan, and bet me, there were people that had already concluded you would never wake up from the comma,
Wouldn’t lie, I started doubting at some point if you would ever wake up from the comma as well. But here you are alive and agile, it’s very surprising and hard to believe. That’s what I meant with that statement”.
Ryan nodded his head in understanding after the man was done speaking. What the man said about people concluding he would never wake up from the comma didn’t surprise him at all.
Without anyone telling him, he already knew in his heart that some people made this conclusion. Humans would always be humans.
“I hope you understood my explanation and have cleared that wrong idea off your mind”. The man uttered to Ryan after he was done explaining.
“Yes, sir”. Ryan stated.
“Okay, I’m so happy to see that you’ve woken up”. The man’s voice resounded again.
Something Ryan had heard a million times, many people had already said it to him. He still uttered anyway,
“Thanks”.
“Let’s get to today’s teaching”. The man uttered once again and began walking toward the board in front of the classroom.
Sighting Ryan had already ruined the reason why he was glancing around in the first place. He was doing so to see if any student was absent.
But he didn’t complete that before walking toward the board to begin teaching them ’cause of the conversation he had with Ryan…
He wrote today’s topic on the board, then he wrote some other things beneath it. He was holding a certain book in his hand, everything he wrote on the board was from the book.
And he made use of a reed pen to write everything he wrote on the board. After he was done writing, he glanced at the students and began explaining.
Now, the explanation was concerning today’s topic and everything he wrote on the board. Students were paying rapt attention as he was explaining, Ryan included.
Yes, he wasn’t doing something else or uninterested as the man was explaining, he was paying rapt attention as well.
What was the man’s explanation like? Was it boring? Or was it interesting? Well, it was fascinating. That’s why even after minutes had passed since he began explaining, students were still paying rapt attention.
As the man was explaining, he was writing more things on the board. And after he’d written to an extent, he glanced at the students and said to them,
“You guys should transfer everything I’ve written on the board into your books”.
And that’s exactly what they began doing, they began bringing out their books and reed pens. And after they’d finished doing so, they began transferring everything on the board into their books by writing.
Ryan wasn’t left out, he was doing exactly what other students were doing. His book was right on the table, and he was transferring everything on the board into his book.
The teacher watched them for a few minutes as they were writing without a single word flowing out of his mouth.
When he saw that some students were already done writing, that’s when he began speaking again. He continued with the explanation but wasn’t rushing things due to the students that were still writing.
And by now, everyone was already done writing. The teacher was still explaining, which was requiring him to write more things on the board…
It would soon get to a time when he’d tell them to transfer the recent things he’d written on the board into their books.
Now, the man’s teaching was so interesting that not even a single student was dozing off or something. No one was tired, no one was bored.
..They were all paying rapt attention.
As Ryan was sitting in his seat glancing at the man teaching them, he was remembering when he was still in high school back on earth.
This was exactly how it was when he was still in high school. A teacher would be in front of the classroom teaching them, and they’d be paying rapt attention if the teacher’s teaching wasn’t boring.
His high school life back on earth was fun, he missed those days after he was done with high school and had graduated from college. He didn’t consider life to be meaningless and boring at that time.
It was after he’d graduated from college and was working that he started considering life to be meaningless and boring…
Ryan kept recalling those moments as he was sitting in his seat and paying rapt attention to the man’s teaching.
It got to a point where the man told them to write down the recent things he’d written on the board, which was expected. And they didn’t waste time to do so.
They wrote down everything, then the man began asking some questions according to the explanation he’d given them.
It wasn’t a situation where he was throwing the questions at everyone, and if you knew the answer to them, you’d indicate by raising your hand so he could call you to give an answer to one of them.
That wasn’t the case at all. He was throwing each question to a person, and if the person couldn’t give a correct answer to it, he’d throw it to another person.
And that was how it kept on going until he’d finished asking the questions he wanted to ask. He asked those questions to know those who understood all that he’d been explaining properly and those who didn’t.
And he was able to know some of them in the two categories mentioned.
So it could be said he accomplished the aim of throwing those questions at them…but not completely ’cause he wasn’t able to ask everyone in the classroom a question.
So he decided to give them an assignment which he’d check when he steps foot into their classroom again according to the teaching curriculum.
He gave them the assignment, explained what the assignment was about…in fact, he wrote it on the board.
After he’d finished writing it on the board, he glanced at the students and said to them,
“I’d be checking them when next I step foot into this classroom. Make sure to do them”.
And after making that utterance, he began walking out of their classroom until he’d finished walking out of it.
Ryan had just finished writing what he wrote on the board concerning the assignment. And according to what he was seeing, the assignment was concerning what he taught them today.
..Not only that, it would also require them to do some research at home.