Chapter 5

“Sorry I’m late Miss Carson” apologized Sharvona.

“Do you have a note?”

“Yes Miss shall I bring it to you?”

“Yes thank you”

Miss Carson read the note and then nodded. Sharvona sat down in her chair and began pulling her books out.

“What happened Sharvy?”

“Wait till lunch then I’ll tell you”.

“Today girls we will be spending most of the lesson going in the ICT suite. I need you to get on with your presentations. Please leave the classroom quietly as there are other lessons taking place”.

Sharvona waited for Megan outside the door.          

“What are you doing your presentation on?”

“Well I haven’t quite decided yet, I mean it’s such an open topic. Will you be doing yours on ballet?”

“Yes, I need to ask Miss if I can do my presentation in the hall”.

The ICT room was large and modern. The computer screens had just been cleaned and several girls were using the monitors as mirrors.  Sharvona and Megan sat down at a computer each. Most of the class had already logged on. Sharvona opened up her PowerPoint; she flicked through the screen and then turned to Megan.

“What do you think?”

“Looks good, but maybe you need more pictures. I know why don’t you get photos of your ballet class?”

“Great idea! In fact I’ve got some with me now. I just need to plug in my SD card reader”.

Sharvona dug into her bag and pulled out her SD reader, she plugged it into the USB port and waited for it to load.

“Wow, is that you in that tutu?” breathed Megan.

Sharvona laughed, “that was just a photo shoot, I was helping to model for the magazine”.

“I’m guessing that the next one is of you doing your barre exercises?”

“You got that right. I think I’ll have 4 of these pictures in the presentation. My one is going to be quite short because I’m doing a dance demonstration afterwards”.

Sharvona noticed that Megan was staring blankly at her empty PowerPoint slide.

“Haven’t you decided what to do yet?”

“No” sighed Megan “I don’t really know what to do”

“You could do, ‘how to be the best friend in the world’”, suggested Sharvona.

Megan laughed and gave Sharvona a friendly punch on the arm. “Thanks but I need to think of something for a presentation”.

“Well what do you like doing?”

“Let’s see:  hanging out with you, football, swimming, drama, basketball”

“So you could do a presentation on football then, you’re the team captain in any case”

“Yeah, and I can put the photos from the tournament on the PowerPoint, thanks Sharvy”.

For 15 minutes the only sound to be heard was the clicking of computer mouse’s and the tapping of keyboard keys.

“Right girls it’s 5 to, everyone save your work log off and stand quietly behind your chairs. Can you all make sure you have your work completed for next lesson and save it either on a USB stick or on the school community folder? Please don’t save it your area because it wastes time”.

An eruption of chatter issued as the girls began saving their work and logging off their computers.

“Megan, are you going to football practise today?”

“Yeah, why don’t you come you’ll like it”

“But I’m not on the team”

“Doesn’t matter, just come with me and I’ll get you in”

“Megan, will you please stand quietly. Is there not one day where you are quiet!” snapped Miss Carson.

“I’ll buy some selotape for her mouth Miss”, joked Sharvona.

Miss Carson smiled, “thanks Sharvona”.

10 minutes later Megan and Sharvona were racing towards the canteen area. Although it was only ten minutes into lunch the canteen was teeming with life.

“We’d better get a packed lunch”, advised Megan as they queued up.

“Yeah, because we don’t want to be too full”, agreed Sharvona