Lương had made it through the exam without any problems. She hated doing that sort of thing, she had only been a teacher for a few days in reality and now she was there to stop the students from cheating but still, it shouldn’t have been her she thought. Mary had only asked her because she was now living Lonna's life and Lonna had been a teacher for several years and not the few days that she had.
She now had a free period her last one of the week. For a teacher, these weren’t the same as if she was still a student. When she had been a student a free period usually was something to look forward to. The time when she wouldn’t have to sit in a classroom listening to whatever that teacher was saying. As a teacher, she used this quiet time with no students to plan some of the lessons that she had coming up as well as mark some of the work that had been handed to her by her students.
Yes, they were her students and despite what happened at lunch they would remain that for some time to come. She had just about gotten used to this fact. People who at the start of the week were her peers were now just children to her. She was 33 now no longer the 18-year-old who had arrived at the school that Monday morning. That fateful day when she and Lonna had bumped into each other and had gotten into a discussion as to how easy the other's life was. After living the life of a high school teacher for a week now Lương wasn’t sure who had been right, did She have a better life, or did Lonna?
Lonna was sitting in the changing room after a rather grueling gym lesson. She thought that since she was now 18 once again she would be able to easily run rings round her classmates but Mrs Cotton had very quickly shown her that this was not the case. A few laps around the track Lonna was soon out of breath.
“What do you think you were doing Lonna? You know that sprinting is more your thing than distance running.” Mary Cotton told her student who was sitting on the bench at the side of the track trying to get her breath back.
“Sorry, Ms. I thought I would try,” Lonna answered in between the gasps for air.
“Its ok Lonna at least you tried,” Mary said trying to look pleased that she had managed to somehow inspire at least one student to do something.
That had been about 30 minuets ago and Lonna was now just about back to her old self. Her old self she thought well the new version of her old self. She looked at her watch and noticed that it was almost time for her to meet up with Ms Tran and Professor Black.
She had grown used to thinking of Lương as Ms. Tran rather than Lương it just didn’t seem right to call a teacher by their first name. Then it came to her there had been another change but not to her. She still seemed to be the same as she had been this morning when she got into Jake's car. Her mind drifted back to the events before school that morning. She was lost in her emotions for a moment or two then she remembered she had been thinking about a change. Ms. Tran’s name hadn’t been Lương yesterday it had been Lauren hadn’t it? The two names sounded the same but very most definitely not the same. Lương was a Vietnamese name and Lauren was an English one. Ms Tran, Lương had taken a step closer to the culture that Lonna had started the week as part of.
Had she gone through some sort of change herself? She didn’t seem any different no she was still the same. She knew it she was still the same Lonna Rodriguez that she had been when she had met up with Jake that morning. Yeah, nothing had changed. All she had to do now was finish getting changed out of her gym kit and meet up with Ms, Tran and Professor Black that way there would now more changes that could happen for her to worry about.
