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" Hey wake up, you don't want to miss the announcement today, do you?" came the harsh voice of my roommate in my dreams where I was being a king. When the World of dream collapsed and reality struck through the image of clock showing 9:00 in the morning, I thought ' Is there any necessity to live in the world where you have to wake up after working so late at night. '
Nevertheless I left my bed with big red eyes which may decorate the floor at any second. Today was a important day in my life as today names for the members of school sponsored archeological team will be announced. From childhood I was very interested in the history and development of human society. I remember being taken to historical places with ancient ruins by my father which would excite me although I don't know why. My father died in an accident and I was left alone when I was in high school as mother had already passed away few years ago. I was left with the house of my parents and to persue my interests further ,sold the house and was admitted in a good University. The money was not enough to survive in rich environment of college life so I took on a part time job at night.
Now, here I am sleeping on such a important day of my life. You can guess now how much stress does night work causes. This trip is planned to survey a newly found ruin near Kimberly in South Africa. As University is sponsoring it so talented students are given a chance to visit the site and get a first hand experience of this site. The university is selecting a team based on overall research performance and contribution in previous such trips. I have a good record in my part thus have high hopes for being selected.
After doing necessary morning routine I got ready and ran for campus from my hostel which was not too far away from it. Upon reaching my college door I was very excited that at last I would do something new. The college was a advanced one with well planned structure and standard facilities available. I ran through the halls for auditorium and reached there just in time. "You are late." I heard the voice of my buddy, sheron , on taking my seat. I turned towards the skinny and malnutritioned looking boy and smiled which seems to have irritated him " For real prashit " ( well this is my name as my mother was indian and father a green card holder so, I'm Prashit evans. )..." You are late even on such a important day ." " I'm not late I arrived on time, didn't I?" seeing him glaring at me I thought 'Where in hell I got such a stupid friend who just keeps scolding me.'
The daily ceremony ended as usual and then came the time of announcement. Dean came on the stage " Dear students! as you all know our school sponsored a trip to South Africa so I'm here to announce the 10 members of the team who will go to Kimberly in supervision of Mr. Daniel shan, director of historical studies." As the speech advanced so did my heart speed. " The names are as follows - Shin saniel, Diana rias, Rose widwig....,
and last one is Paul heartfilia. I hope all of you will contribute and make name to our 'university of Marcy'." The whole system of my body stopped. For few seconds I couldn't think what to do . The shock of not being selected was there but more than that there was anger as someone who should never be on the list was there. " That scum Paul got his way in the team without even doing anything, just with money. What about me who have done more than half of the team" I could not control my self. Sheron seeing me angry tried to calm me down " Buddy calm down we'll talk with Mr. Hilton he might help." calm down?? who should calm down. I never knew myself to be a calm person, looking at the smug look of Paul who was looking at him I stood up, sheron tried to drag me down bu I'm really mad this time. " Dean with all due respect I do not agree with the list you proposed." I cried out to the retreating dean. The whole scenario changed dean stopped in his track, the smug look on Paul vanished and the whole auditorium silenced.