The cancelled class

I am a freelance teacher. I teach students to become a better version of themselves. I have a regular student who is 9 years old. He is a very hardworking student. He is brilliant and also is funny. I love taking classes for him. I enjoy every interaction that I have with him. Every week I look forward to conducting a class for him.

Today I had a plant class with him. I prepared the lesson well in advance. I had all the examples ready with me. I had oven my favourite shirt today. I was looking forward to having an interaction with him. I wanted to hear his stories from his school. I was prepared to share my blog with him. He loves listening to my stories and I enjoy sharing them with him. I was all set for the class.

I locked in 5 minutes before our class. I was waiting for my student to join the class. 5 minutes had gone and he still had not joined the class. I texted his mother and informed her that her child has not joined the class yet. I requested her to tell the student to join the class. The message was undelivered to her. I waited for 5 minutes. The message was still undelivered.

Five more minutes went by. Now I called his mother. Har phone was switched off. I found it strange because I know the student and his mother very well. The inform me I had of time. My mind was rushing through various scenarios. I still tried to hold my thoughts and wait for 5 more minutes.

It was already 20 minutes into the class and my student still had not joined. I called his mother again. The phone was still switch off. The message was still undelivered. Now I started panicking. My first decision was to cancel the class and inform the mother about the cancellation.

After cancelling my class I held my head in my hands. I started thinking. My student loves my classes he never misses. It was one time when he had to go on vacation but he still wanted to attend the class. He asked me if he should drawing the class from the vacation. I told him it was not needed. I could not believe that such a sincere student would not come to the class without informing me. Also his mother was very involved. I spoke with her yesterday itself and she never told me that he is not going to attend the class today.

My mind started to have very weird thoughts. What if there is a medical emergency? What if there is a family emergency? What if the mother is unwell and hence she has which switched off the phone? What if my student is unwell? What if something is really wrong? I know I was overthinking. But my bond with my student was something really special. I did not want his family or him in any sort of trouble.

2 hours after the scheduled time of class I received a phone call from his mother. She sounded very calm. She inform me that there was a storm in the locality. The electricity and the internet were disrupted. Because of that she was not able to charge her phone or laptop. Once the electricity got is called she immediately called me. That relieved me. Everything is fine. I told her not worry and attend the class tomorrow.

This is how my day went by. I experienced excitement, tension, and relief in a single day.