School

The last two days of peace after the weekend passed quite quickly, and today our whole group of fourteen girls starts school, to find out what has changed in the last hundred years, apart from what we already remembered. After breakfast, when nine o'clock ring bells on the church tower, we gathered in front of the building opposite the church and waited for the teacher to come.
After five minutes of waiting, the door opened and a young religious sister came out and told us to go upstairs to the classroom, that the lesson would start in five minutes. After coming to the classroom, I found out that it was not much different from those at our school, two rows of four desks, each with two chairs, so one desk remained empty when we all chose a seat.
On the clock that hung above the white board, the hands showed nine hours and ten minutes when the religious sister we saw at the entrance entered.

 "Good morning girls" she greeted us and went to the big table in front, "my name is Sister Beáta and I will teach you some subjects and the new history of our republic and the whole world."
"Now I'm going to give you the tablets that we'll be working with during the lesson, these days most schools and various other organizations already use them."

We all rejoiced when she started giving them to us, these tablets were a real novelty because we never had such things in the third grade, I could play with the small tablet from my parents at home, but the tablets we got were big, light and foldable almost like a small computer with a flexible A4 touch screen.
For the rest of the lesson, we learned to control them and write on them using a keyboard and pen, and at the end of the lesson we were able also to draw on them. After the first two hours we had a break and sister Beáta told us that the tablets will now be ours for the entire time we go to school.
In the next lessons, we discussed classic subjects, most of them just for repetition, such as mathematics or physics, then history and geography came, and that was already more interesting. We learned about how in the sixties of the last century, after the meteorite swarms stopped and the cities started to rebuild, there were new materials and chemical elements in some of the fragments found at the impact sites, which were found to be lighter and more durable than what was known at that time iron and steel alloys and other materials used in industry.

"Thanks to the new materials and technologies that were created, the reconstruction of the cities that survived went much faster, and that was the good side of the whole disaster," Beáta explained to us, "but the other side was no longer so happy, because the meteorites also hit nuclear power plants and fuel storages, which led to the necessary evacuations of entire cities outside the affected areas.”

"Also, the subsequent contamination with radioactivity and widespread fires accompanied by firestorms left most of Western Europe, including the newly formed island of Ibérica, uninhabitable even today, and only people equipped with military anti-radiation suits can go there," Beáta finished her narration and ended the entire history lesson.

After that we had lunch and exercise during which we got to know the trainer Katka who worked here as well as Emily and about 20 other people who did not belong to the order of Sisters of Mercy of St. Clare.