Recalling my first day at school pps

My most precious possession My most precious possession is a bullet.. Well, to be more accurate, it is a bullet that has been fired from a revolver.. It became shaped like this after it

Recalling my first day at school

I am a Primary Six student in De La Salle School I enjoy

going to school because I have many friends However, I

still remember how frightened and lonely I felt on my first

day at school

That morning, my mother drove me to school I felt

frightened when I saw so many students running about in

the school field

I joined a queue and was brought into Class 1A by my

teacher, Mrs Devi I was in tears when my mother left

Many of my class-mates were also crying and Mrs Devil

had a hard time pacifying us She played some games

with us to make us talk about ourselves Soon, I got to

know a few friends

Suddenly, we heard a bell ringing loudly and we started

packing our things However, Mrs Devi told us it was only

a break and led us to the canteen I was glad to see my

mother waiting for me with a bowl of prawn noodles As I

ate, I told her about my new friends

After recess, another teacher came into our class and we

sang nursery rhymes

At the end of the day, I was no longer frightened or lonely

My parents were glad when I told them I was looking

forward to going to school the next day

My most precious possession

My most precious possession is a bullet Well, to be more

accurate, it is a bullet that has been fired from a revolver

It no longer has the normal shape of a bullet It looks more

like a twenty sen coin now It became shaped like this

after it hit a metal post in the shooting range

Our possessions are usually what we intentionally went

out to get In the case of this misshapen bullet it was not

so I never intended to get it nor think it would become my

most precious possession Things sort of just happened

without my trying

It began one day about a year ago when my brother took

me to the shooting range He is a keen member of the

local gun club and sometimes I tag along with him when

he goes for shooting practice It was on one of these

occasions that I got this precious possession

I was watching him shoot some targets with his 0.38

revolver when he asked me whether I would like to have a

go I grabbed the opportunity I had never fired a gun

before in my life and was always waiting for an opportunity

like this First he showed me the safety procedure Then

he showed me how to shoot the pistol

So I followed his instructions and held the revolver in both

hands I took aim at a man-shaped target some distance

away and pulled the trigger I heard a loud crack even

though I was wearing earmuffs I saw the bullet hit a metal

post way off the target I even heard a soft “ting” as the

bullet struck the post and rebounded My brother reminded

me to hold the gun more firmly so that the bullet went

where I was aiming at I corrected myself and tried again

The second time I was more successful I hit the target

Feeling a bit more confident I fired the revolver until it was

empty Out of five shots I hit the target with three It was

quite good for my first go at shooting

My brother took the revolver back and continued his

shooting practice After the practice we went over to the

target to see how well he had done He did not do too bad

at all

While we were examining the target my eyes came upon a

tiny grey object on the ground Out of curiosity I picked it

up It was a flattened bullet, the result of the bullet’s

collision with a metal post I showed it to my brother He

said it was the first one I fired that hit the metal post I

looked at it with disbelief Here was the result of my first

shot with a pistol How many people get to keep the first

bullet they ever fired? Perhaps I was the only one

So I decided to keep the bullet as a memento It is still with

me to this day