It’s really a problem, a big problem that can’t be solved. My stomach feels like having a roller coaster trip for ten times. It rolls up and down, and everything inside my body wants to escape from my stomach and bladder. The big problem is that I am totally helpless. I’m sitting in an exam hall having my HKCEE English writing.
HKCEE is so important to me, and I am not good at English at all. I work extremely hard to prepare for the exam, reading lots of essays and doing lots of exercises. I am as worried as a bird hearing a gunshot.
Then comes the exam. I wait nervously in the hall, trying to calm down and pray to God.
“You can start now.” I look at the question paper. “I’m really lucky. I’ve practised a similar topic before!” I am relieved and feel confident because of this. Half an hour passes. I’ve been making good progress.
However, while I am working hard on my paper, my stomach is working as hard. It starts churning and scaring my ideas away! Can I just leave this semi-finished essay and go to the toilet? No! I work so hard to prepare for this exam and go away now? No! I try to change my posture to relieve the pain of the annoying stomach but it makes no difference. I can just be a little bird in a hunter’s hands. All I can do is nothing!
My naughty stomach keeps churning and I keep on trying to stop it, sometimes slouching on the desk, sometimes sitting straight up. I try every possible action but I lose the battle. I hope the exam ends but it doesn’t.
There is only 5 minutes left, but this is the longest 5 minutes in my life. “Pens down.” Oh, it ends eventually and I am still trying to relax my stomach. I just need to wait for the teacher to collect my paper but she looks like a turtle with a limp crawling towards my seat.
“Can I be excused? Can I be excused?” I murmur and hope her legs get well. She comes and gets my paper at last. I rush away from the exam hall and have my necessary trip to the toilet.
I wish I had prayed more before my examination.