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Second hour of history and last lesson of my day. I’m knocked out. I can’t take my life anymore. Why learning who did what and in what year, when I can’t even remember what I ate last night?! I look at the board and try to understand the teacher’s hieroglyphics. No, but it’s a “d” or an “f”?! I continued like this for a few minutes when I felt a cold atmosphere around me. Another idiot who had opened the window, it’s the middle of December, shit!

Night was falling, I looked at the time: 5.49 P.M. 6 minutes left. 6 long minutes to resist before being able to join my soft and comforting bed. My eyelids feel heavy and I begin to sink under the heavy weight of the clock’s regular ticking. Falling to the dark and infernal abyss of the sleep of the last hour of class. My eyes sting and close automatically …

The full dark …

Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic Tac

I open one eye, then the second and …

What?! What is this mess?!

I’m in the same room as before, the same cold atmosphere, the same place and the same position. But yet, everything is different. There is no one left, everything is dilapidated, and the black board is swept away by several more or less huge scratches. I turn inward and notice only the state of things : dark, grim … I try to get up but I am glued to my chair. I touch my desk without doing it on purpose, I feel that a sticky substance is clumping there. Then I feel it dripping down my pants … Oh shit ! Brand new, all white jeans too !

A familiar noise makes me turn my head and I see the door open to reveal a huge dark figure, which then enters the classroom and what I see makes my blood run cold. At the bottom of this figure, two sparkling rubies are staring at me. I knew it was advancing but its footsteps were almost inaudible. It slowly approaches me, gets to my level and pauses what looks very much like its finger on my forehead, gently. I then feel a kind of electric stream going through my whole body, my muscles are burning and my head is heavy. It’s then that I’m like propelled against a hard thing that seems to be a wall, a transparent wall, as when we enter another dimension in the movies. I now hear a voice calling me, but it is far away, like millions of light years from me …

It’s getting louder little by little, and I can distinctly hear :

“Miss Ross … Miss Ross … Miss ROSS ! AMELIE ROSS !!!”

I feel myself falling and find myself on the ground. Laughter burst from everywhere. I get up and notice that everything is back to normal, no more scratch board, dilapidated class and above all no more dark mass but Mrs Pouchnavov, my history-geography teacher. I sit back down and she asks me a question about the lesson :

“Well, you, Miss Ross, what can you say about the black mass that these peasants would have seen ?”

I look at my sheet of paper and my eyes start glancing at the black stains on my pants. I mumble an answer :

“What is … A … Real creature ? …”

“False ! The “Black Mass” represented the Black Death in the Middle Age …”

She continues to talk but I’m already not listening anymore, I look at the time, and one more strange thing, it hasn’t moved and has remained the same : 5:49 p.m., before gently switching to 5:50 p.m. The endless minutes I spent in this kind of … Alternate universe ? would never have happened ?!

But it’s not possible ! I couldn't dream anyway ! It’s impossible ! I couldn’t dream of this !

Korea is one of the countries having a lot of different cults or sects connected to the Christian religion. There are countless cults in Korea with so much different ways to interpret the Christian religion than this can even go to very dangerous and illegal acts.
These cults have so much importance that they were responsible of the outbreak of COVID-19 like the « Shincheonji Church of Jesus » with 300 members declared with it. 
This cult is also the biggest one in the history of Korea with a number of 317,320 members. It was created on march 14, 1984 by Lee Man-Hee. This Church has a lot of accusations like some members trying to convert other koreans or foreigners by pretending they are just showing their religion and culture.
Some of them are really weird or even funny :
•    The guns of god : the church where we pray with AR-15 rifles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w2kSlpXjng
•    An unification church doing a wedding of more than 4,000 couples and even 20,000 
online at the same time ! ( extract of the wedding : https://youtu.be/XVchwW9Hw80)
•    Pastor Shin Ok-ju arrested for beating her followers to get rid of their sins.  
And there is even more and different cults like that.

Neymar de Silva Santos junior, known as Neymar jr, was born on the 5th of February in
1992 in Brazil. He is 30 years old, he is 1m75 tall .  He shoots goals with his two feet.  In 2017 he 
became the world's most expensive player with a transfer of 222 milion euros .He is an 
international Brazilian footballer who also plays in the position of striker in Paris Saint-
Germain. He has become the captain of Brasilian national football team since 2014. Before 
reaching this professional level, he joined Santos(football club) in 2013.  Then he joined the FANION club with which he won the Brazilian cup.Next he integrated FC Barcelona in 2013 in 
Spain, this is the team with which he won the Spanish championship and also the 
champions League in 2015. He is also seen as the 3rd best soccer player in the world.
 

Dream: What courses do you take?
Alyssa: I take economics as my course selection, last year i took biomedical science
and next year i'm doing engineering
Dream: Are any of those classes mostly guys?
Alyssa: Yes, well, it depends on what you take..more girls are in like the medicine
pathway but there’s far more guys in business and engineering / computer science
from what I’ve seen
Dream: And how do you feel in those classes where there's far more guys in?
Alyssa: It depends what class it is, because  an honors or AP class will have much
more mature guys that you feel comfortable working with. Academy boys at my school
genuinely make me uncomfortable with the stuff they say and how they act Inside and
outside of a classroom
Dream: Has any of the guys harassed you?
Alyssa: I’ve had a guy grab my arm and like stroke it. I’ve had guys make fun of me
after giving an argument in a class (when the argument was assigned). The argument
was about women being harassed, which him doing that luckily proved my point.
Dream: Did anyone ever question your course choices because "it's not for women"?

Alyssa: I’ve only had my dad tell me I need to practice cooking and cleaning, No ones
never told me to not peruse something because i'm a women, it was like encouraged in
my family to do something that’s a “mans job”
Dream: Why did you choose those courses?
Alyssa: .I wanted to be a pediatrician originally so choose Biomed. I wanted another AP
class and wanted to challenge myself. I want to do Aerospace engineering

As you know , the 8th march is an important day for women.The day when women celebrate their
rights,when they got freedom for many things but some things are still the same in
the world .
Last week ,thanks to an event organized  and I got to know so many things like
the  « SCALE OF VIOLENCE ». It is a good indicator to define the
relationships and it measures the level of violence and toxicity in a couple. Thanks to it I can know if my
partner is manipulating me ,not respecting my opinions or being violent with me. It can help everyone stop a toxic relationship.
Thanks to a quiz , I discovered that there were such legendary women who fought
and became  important figures like the first female prime minister: Edith Cresson or realisator of
movie directors ... I felt so proud to realize as a woman I can achieve so many things..
Next , I look forward to many testimonies of classmates in this event that shocked me
because I never expected it .A woman is targeting another about her clothes , she told her that a woman unveiled deserves to be raped. There was also the testimony of a little girl who was abused by her own uncle . It is so coward to demean or judge a woman for her way of  her thinking , dressing or if she is going ahead in her professionalcareer.
Some, individuals always remind women that she is a girl and she doesn't have to go beyond the limits to be in her limits. Some people consider man as superior to women so they can do whatever they like. This situation is unbearable and unfair, it has to stop definitely.
Personally it makes me sad, at least today we have to celebrate gender equality.
In my opinion such event is useful at school so that boys can learn about girl power and need to
know that we are not objects and we deserve respect.

Gender equality is not defined by words but by some actions. It can be a source of a
new mind in this world , no doubt there are also men who are discriminated but women
are more victims and they all have to understand the feelings women bear everyday . To men put yourself in our shoes...