OSHAWA -- My heart was beating rapidly, my tongue dry but the time was now for my G1 test. Again.
I'd failed the first time and didn't want to have to go back for a third time. This was it and the pressure was clearly on.
Here I was, sitting in a small room writing the test, my body half-twisted, just enough to reach the desk. It was very uncomfortable and I could feel my back beginning to cramp up.
I knew the mistakes I made the first time round, so this would be a piece of cake. As soon as I read the first question, my faith evaporated. I didn't know many of the answers and I was seconds away from giving up and running out of the room.
I allowed the tip of my finger to run up and down the multiple choices until I decided to randomly stop at an answer. It was my version of Wheel of Fortune. I really was expecting a Harry Potter miracle where the answers would form like Scrabble. Just anything to get me out of this mess! But nothing happened. It was all up to me.
I turned the page over and over again and continued to scratch out answers, then Beyonce kept telling me to put everything I owned in a box to the left.
"To the left, to the left."
It was a song! Why was she singing on the speakers? Especially while I was writing my G1 test.
Hold on a minute! Well, actually, I held it for three, because that was the length of the entire song.
The radio was taking over my answers and my feet remained tapping to the beat of two more songs. I sat there singing in my head, losing my concentration. I'm positive if the test was "Guess The Lyrics!" I would have finished quicker.
I snapped out of my sing-a-long and changed a whole bunch of answers, before feeling there was nothing more I could do. I handed it in to the employee, watching my hard work hopefully turn into a moment to remember.
Then I heard my name.
"You passed." I passed? What a relief!
I walked out of the small room and my first thought was that I hope I never have to see that room and those uncomfortable desks again.
I must have taken a long time. My own mother wasn't even waiting for me any longer.
I am 17 and I finally have my G1 after delaying it for an entire year.
Just wait until I start driving in a car for my G2.
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