Laina is a first year OCAD design student; she had stayed up all night struggling to finish her project for her class the next day. Noticing that she had slept in, her mom enters her bedroom to find Laina resting on her project with her desk lamp turned on. Oh Laina, her mom thought, always working so hard. She nudged her awake and hurried her to get dressed. After Laina had thrown on some clothes, she raced downstairs and had what was left of breakfast; she grabbed her materials and shoved them in her school bag. As Laina slammed the door behind her she walked at a heavy pace towards the bus stop, that was conveniently only two blocks away. As she made a mental list of all the things she needed for today, she realized she forgot the project she stayed up all night to finish. Half way to the bus stop, she had to race back to her house. With her already heavy school bag hitting her with every lunge, she noticed the bus pass her by. “SHIT!” she yelled out loud with all her anger and frustration. As she got her project and left her house once again, she walked rapidly toward the subway station. Upon already being late for class, Laina had been so stressed out and frustrated with everything. She never has time to relax, have fun or hang out with her friends. She has been working so hard on project after project nonstop, since she became an OCAD student. All of her other friends at school don’t seem to be struggling as much as she is, but one thing Laina is particularly bad at is managing her time.
As she got on the heavily packed train she rested her big project on the floor, took out a pen that was crammed in her backpack and started to write on her hand, the projects she already knew she had to do. With every train stop the crowd kept getting bigger and Laina and her project were getting more squashed. She was getting even angrier, almost about to explode like a boiling tea kettle. Thankfully her stop had arrived, “EXCUSE ME!” she yelled as the people moved away to let her off. Coming up to street level, heavy snow had just begun to fall and Laina was carefully yet speedily jogging to her school, making sure her project wasn’t getting too wet. She was almost there when a huge gust of wind took her project and sent it tumbling toward the wet dirty slush. “NOOOO!” she screamed. All her time spent and hard work ruined, Laina didn’t care about anything at this point, this day couldn’t get any worse and she was on the verge of tears. All she wanted to do now was relax and do something fun that would take her mind off of her bad day.
Opening the door to the main building she slowly walked up the spiral staircase to the floor of her class, with the biggest frown on her face. She immediately noticed a crowd of people in the Great Hall, with shouting and laughter coming from the mob. Curious, she made her way over and saw her friends Hortense and Galahad enjoying themselves, in what looked to be a fun activity. There were objects scattered on the ground covering a large area, each object had bells on them. There was a start line and a finish line and Hortense was blindfolded as Galahad was shouting directions at him; guiding Hortense from the start to the finish, while trying to avoid the objects on the floor as well as competing with the other partners. Challenging as this was Hortense, also had to hear Galahads instructions above everyone else’s. Laina noticed that if the blind folded person hit an object on the floor, the bells sound and they have to start all over again. She loved competitions and this looked like fun so she threw all of her things to the ground, not caring about her project that was due anymore. She grabbed a random person, whom she introduced herself to and joined the fun.
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