English Carnival – Ranau District. / E-storytelling competition.
Presented By: Sherntz Izzra Lajibi (Year 6)
SK Naradan (Nawanon) Ranau.
Good Day to all judges and fellow
contestant. This fine day I would like to tell a story a title of “A highly ambitious
rural boy who make the state proud” without further due, let’s start…
Sixty years ago, in mid subterranean
town far from the big city of Kota Kinabalu, a young boy called Joseph were
schooling at the Missionary School
located in the rural area of Tambunan. Every morning, he woke up at 5 and prepare
for a long journey to his school about 8 km on foot from his house. Those days
were a little bit hard for the rural people like him which the basic
necessities were really hard to get and what was needed will be served first.
Just like other parents who share the same interest in getting high-quality education from the Missionary School,
Joseph father was willing to scarify anything in terms of energy and money
to have a good education for his beloved son.
The journey started at 5.30am and it
would take nearly two hours and a half to reach the school, with a pair of
slippers, a bag, two thick books for English and Mathematic subject and a
lovely and tendering big tupperware consist of Linopot, a traditional food mixed
with hills vegetable and fried river fish as food provisions for a long
journey prepared by his mother. A piece of advice from his father who's apparently a
village leader there, Joseph still remembers the words. “ Study for the future
of our family, our community, our state, and our beloved nation of
Malaysia”. His father was very strict
but deep in his heart, he was the loving father.
Reaching the footsteps of the missionary
school was quite nervous for Joseph, the English teacher there was just like a
lion when roaring fighting in the jungle and everybody seems to be afraid of him
but he was a highly respective teacher there. “Good Morning Joseph, How are you
today? “ Huh.. luckily he was in a good mood that day. Joseph sat on his chair
after addressing the teacher. “Today we will be discussing your ambitions
and I want all of you to write a simple essay about it and read it for the
class”. The class consists of ten pupils only. The huge big man as Joseph’s
English teacher was Mr. Harry Gravestone from Manchester, England. He joins the
Missionary school for social works at end of World War 2.
Everybody stop writing!!! I want ask you, Joseph!! What is your ambition
when you became a man? I want be a lawyer, the first lawyer from my tribe, my
very own people. Wow!! “Such an ambitious boy you are,” said Mr. Harry, but
nothing is impossible, anything can be achieved if it done seriously. Joseph struggles hard for his education, from
the Missionary School near to his village to the all-boys school at La-Salle Kota
Kinabalu, located in the capital city of Sabah to a sponsored tertiary education at the University Of Adelaide in Australia. Everything
gain needs extra effort to be successful whereas wisdom is the best quality
to make a marvelous education. The hardships to become the first tribe lawyers
were achieved by Joseph and continued by many more after him.
Joseph became the first lawyer in his
tribe and achieved more excellent achievements in years to go. With hardships
from his own and continuing support from his parent, he deserves to be proud. So
the moral of the story is, we must have a big ambition in order to become
successful in our life in the future. Education is the most valuable treasure
for our next generation and it will be the foundation in serving our states and
country. Remember that, knowledge is power!!! That alls and Happy Independence
Day for our beloved country of Malaysia. God Bless Malaysia. Thank You.
By: Mr. Harry George
Originally scripted but.. a small
changes made here and there, just for educational purposes only.
English Teacher
SK
Naradan (Nawanon) Ranau.
