Outstanding Student's Award

She is a rugged girl and a very rough one who does not want to listen to anybody's advice. Mariah came from a wealthy home and always takes the advantage of being rich for something else. Her parents want the best for her and she has been told by her parents that she will be ending her schooling career in the US. So, this has caused her morale to become worse than ever. She became very pompous, feeling so high and became proud. This means pride has overtaken her and made her somehow deviate from the part of reading.

Mariah has a friend who always advises her to read her books. The fact remains that her friend is good at any form of calculation. She can read and she always comes out the best in her class. Joan is her beautiful name and she cherished Mariah not just because of her money but because of the talent she saw in her which Mariah has not seen. Joan never wanted to have another friend other than Mariah and she told Mariah about it. Since she has the kind of feeling pompous, she is always rejected by her classmates. They never wanted to play with her and she loved it that way since she was so filled with pride. Joan has been advising her to always bring herself to the taste of people and she felt not changing, because she believed she can never leave being proud.

They wrote the first year exams and the friend came out to be the best student. The award is always given at the end of each session. In a session, there are three terms and I'm each of the terms. Joan got all her papers and came out with flying colours topping the class with a clear gap between the second position and herself. She was the best and the very best they have ever known in the history of the school. When the award was given, she was called and walked majestically to the stage to claim her reward. Her friend was not feeling it just because of the mind of depending on her parent's wealth. Joan kept on collecting the prizes for the best students year in year out without a competitor in her way. This is as a result of not relenting, but burning the midnight candle without resting. The fact remains that she has lots of work to do at home. Her parents are farmers and the worst is that she always follows her parents to the farm. This means she goes to the farm every day and when she is back from school, she never rests but heads straight to her parents on the farm. The only time she has to read is at night.

At home, Mariah will never read and put up the habit of frustrating her parents. She never listened to her parent's advice and the worst happened when her dad told her to read her books. She hissed saying boldly to her dad that "I own life and know what to do with my life. Her dad was surprised, with her manner of approach.

He scolded her, but her mom took her side. She begged her father to forgive her as she knew nothing about the kind of character she is putting up. Mariah went straight to her room filled with annoyance and her mom followed her immediately. She advised her to read her notes and not to put up the habit of pride. Mariah thanked her mom and then she went to marry her bed. She didn't eat at night because she was angry with her dad.

She was so arrogant and refused to pray her normal prayers in the morning and instead left for the bathroom to take her bath. When she was done, she only. took a little food and then took off for school.

The school organised a little competition for them where they will all partake with a special prize to be won. In her class, she was not the dull type. Some students always take last in her class. So, they all went home to get themselves prepared. She thought the questions will be that easy and so, only made shabby preparation leaving some crucial areas untouched. When it was time for the competition, they all come together in the hall and indeed she met the unexpected. The questions were difficult for her to attempt. This shows the level of her studies.

After the competition, they all settled down waiting for results and behold, her friend Joan came first and to her surprise, a girl who was nowhere to be found in the class came second and the third position went to the students which they least expected. According to the results, she took the last position out of twenty-nine students in her class. During that same month and the same period, they wrote their promotion exams and behold she repeated. This got her pissed off and was ashamed of herself. She could not attend school for two days. Her friend went to her house to check on her as it is unlike her to leave school for a day. That was when Joan got to know the reason she refused to come to school. Joan advised her to come to school and promised to help her read her books.

She came to school and they began reading together. Mariah who was so pompous and filled with pride suddenly came down to everybody's level. She became a changed person and this got everyone surprised. Her parents were surprised to see their only child reading frequently. Everyone had written her off as she was not the type that could make it in life just because of her character. She repeated her class while her friend Joan got promoted. Joan on the other hand saw her seriousness and followed her up to make sure she read her books at all cost.

The state government organised a scholarship for the whole students in secondary levels. Joan scolded her to go out for the exams which she did register. She sat for the exams after a month of preparation and no one could recon her as those that can bring glory to the school were part of the competition. After the exams, she told her friend Juan that she tried her best and Wass was happy with what she read and what Joan taught her. She tried all she could and indeed the unexpected happened. When the results were released, behold, Mariah's name was at the top of the list when their principal checked the result online. He never believed it and called other teachers to see what he had seen.

She was shocked when her name was mentioned as the one who topped the list out of the fifteen secondary schools that went for the exams. She was given the Outstanding Student's Award apart from the scholarship. She also brought glory to her school and everyone was proud of her. She was so happy and ran to hug her friend Joan who was indeed the happiest girl on earth for she has made someone proud.

The needs got to her parents and Prepared a welcoming ceremony for her and her friend Joan.

The fact remains that we are all brilliant only if we put up the element of what we are supposed to do at the right time. Pride on the other hand can make one be cut short of some special things in life. Arrogant is not the best and does not fit your very personal as it can strip you of many opportunities in life.