In-class essay second version

At the end of the semester in my sixth year in elementary school, I had a difficulty becoming a good class-captain. Most students think of me as a poor class-captain, and my teacher often scolded me for failing to lead students. I was not an active student, and I didn’t fully understand what I should do as a leader.

 In those days, we had a lot of free time in P.E class. Boys decided to play soccer and girls decided to play Kick ball with the teacher. In first day, we could spend very interesting and satisfactory time under the rule: the person who scores should be a goal keeper. It was exciting and appropriate for all students to join. In the other goalpost, class 4 was playing exactly the same game. Some of us made a plan to have a match with class 4.

 However, in P.E class next day, we found out that class 4 already started a soccer match with another class. Although we really wanted to share goalpost, we just watched the game politely sitting on the bench, expecting we would play soccer next time. Without considering other classes, class 4 repeated playing a match again and again, having us losing as much as three times doing nothing.

 Next week, during a break time right before P.E class, we went out rapidly so that we could find one empty goalpost. We quickly started to play soccer being excited and relieved. After a few minutes, class 4 went out with another class, and before long, they started their match. Class 4 had difficulty defending their post because we already have used it. Some students in class 4 shouted at us to leave the playground, and some of us shouted back aggressively. We kept playing under extreme tension.

 Finally, the homeroom teacher of class 4 came to us, scolding our impolite manner. Even though we wanted to talk back, and continue to play, she spoke in authoritative manner making it hard to talk back. We became more and more upset with constant scolding.

 “Why should we go out?” I suddenly shouted with anger.

 “Your class has already occupied the whole playground three times. We haven’t used playground for three times. Isn’t playground the place for every class?”

 The teacher stopped speaking for a second. Her face was a bit flushed. Then she continued to admonish even louder, making us get out. I was worried she would talk negatively so that my homeroom teacher would give some penalty to us.

 Surprisingly, from that on, class 4 didn’t come out in our P.E. class. I heard that class 4 originally didn’t have P.E on the same day with us. We could enjoy soccer, without disturbance of other classes. Some students told me that class 4 had argument with headmaster of having a P.E. class every day.

 Two years later, some students and I visited our homeroom teacher on Teacher’s day. She looked really happy to meet us, asking lot about how other students lived. When we opened the classroom door to have a lunch outside, we met class 4’s homeroom teacher. She recognized me at her first glance, saying hello to me. She talked about that event right away, and I realized that my homeroom teacher didn’t even know what had happened. It was more surprising that my teacher said to me “You did really good job.”

 That was her first time to praise me for what I did as a class-captain. I didn’t know why she said so at the time, but I could vaguely understand the reason. As a representative of a class, a class-captain should protect a just right of a class although it can negatively influence my relationship with some other people, and it can be impolite manner toward teachers.

 After that year, I had two more chances to be a class-captain. Bearing what I learned in mind, I have contributed to my class devotedly. Many students and teachers started to trust me despite some troubles, and I could learn more from those two experiences. It’s really hard to lead a group, but with patient and learning, I will be able to lead others successfully.