T1W1 "Meet Xenia"
Friday, January 16, 2009
Meet Xenia, and be sure to take a good hard look and remember her.
Why? Well, because you're going to see a lot of her from now on. Happy?
To begin with, her personality: she's a fine student, but she's also the infamous delinquent. She's
zealous and
rash, without a care for the bystander, or criticism. She lives her life one day at a time, and places
sanguine faith on unfounded
conjectures and impossibilities, and is the favourite topic for the
lurid gossip column on the school newsletter when they haven't anything else to report.
Now down we have a general idea of her personality - if you're thinking along the lines of "idiot", "nerd" and "attention-seeker" you're almost there - let's take a good look at her appearance. It's easy enough, and one is sure to be able to recognise her without going in depth into how her nose is this high, and how her almond-shaped eyes are exactly at the third quarter of her face from the bottom. All one actually needs to know is:
a) she's really tanned
b) she has silver hair
c) she has gold eyes
And someone spits out coffee in indignation. "What?" exclaims the person who has just lost a perfectly good mouthful of coffee, "isn't this Xenia person a student? In modern context?" Well, yes. But she's also a delinquent. And, it was her appearance that got her kicked out of school anyway. Not her grades, not her attitude, not her behaviour; just her hair, her contacts and glasses, her uniform, it was her appearance that got her kicked out. She wasn't a straight A student, but she was a student who would pass everything without a single C. She was attentive in class and answered questions promptly. She would never dare to talk back at the teacher, but she would refuse to back down when it came down to attire. Xenia Hui, which was her full name, was a regular chinese girl, but one with a stubborn streak that would rival a mule's.
A firm believer in creative expression, Xenia had dressed as she wished in her uniform. The teacher had been tolerant with her when she appeared in school with her skirt at least three inches above her knee, and when she came to school with her uniform shirt altered so much it was almost unrecognizable save the school crest. The teacher had allowed her to go by, giving her detention for a week, or two, or four, making her write lines, pay a visit to the school's discipline master for a dressing down... Sadly, it was all
fruitless. Thus, when she came skipping into the classroom with her hair unmistakenably dyed bright silver, it was to nobody's surprise that the
phlegmatic teacher snapped and escorted the little delinquent all the way to the discipline master's, who wearily pulled out her student offence file and sent her on suspension.
A month later, she was expelled.
And she took up wearing spectacles despite her 20/20 vision.
It was time for a little revision on her life from then on.
posted at 4:50 AM
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she is the one and only Julian ;D
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