It has been exactly 1 month since the day the elections results were announced and all the members of the eco club ran up to the vice principals office to check out the winners and by the time we reached the third floor; Tatvika starts yelling "Praseeda you won!!!!".My sister Tatvika fibs a lot so I didn't trust her. I went past the crowd and saw my name under the position of " Gladiators House Captain' I couldn't believe it- I beat my friend Sanchit who is one of the most popular people in the whole school. I ran up to my friend Aditi and hugged her and skipped around the corridor filled with joy. I high fived and hugged Thomas(who was celebrating - because he became the captain of a fellow house - Challengers) and then I shook hands and hugged every other person I saw and celebrated my victory.
Initially I was skeptical for standing in the school elections because Sanchit stood against me and I didn't want another humiliating defeat in the elections. However Jia(who all so won the elections- Knight House Captain) and Aditi gave me a pep talk that boosted my ego and made me enter the mad race. For a week I traversed through classes and gave speeches where I explained why I would be a suitable candidate. Those seven days I kept on advertising myself and asked every person I saw to vote for me. My sister, Aarush, Aditi Aparna and many of my other friends did their part and helped me out with campaigning. On the 14th of July the whole of middle and secondary school cast their votes. I was slightly let down because some people didn't vote for me but Aryaa(he won too!!! Vice captain challengers), Jeet and Trinay cheered me up with their stupid high- jinks. The next day well the results were out.
From the 18th began our training session for the Investiture ceremony- where the student council will take their oath and the parents would badge their ward. We toiled under the hot sun . We practiced and practiced and practiced some more until every muscle of our body ached. After 4 whole days hard work, confusion, scoldings, last minute ideas and practice we had become tanned and tired but most importantly we were perfect.
Parents and students started filing in at 9:30 and took their seats the ceremony had began. Everything was better than I had ever imagined. All of that tiresome sessions made the whole marchpast on beat. The council was so synchronized that it looked like we were from the army. My parents came on staged and badged me and after some more march past and a speech from the chairman our ceremony came to an end . We took a couple of photos and showed our badges of to our school mates.
Now we have regular meetings with the Vice Principal where we give suggestion and plan events we have duty where we help out the teachers and junior grades and maintain discipline and most of all we have the extremely cool badge which somehow magically transformed me into a celebrity- I was always popular but this badge has increased my popularity by a tenfold- students constantly high five me, give me chocolates, stationary and stickers they yell "aye, aye captain" every time I talk to them , pupils are always trying to talk to me and try to get noticed by me, people come and approach me with their problems and little kids boast to their friends that they know me. I have become a celebrity!!!
I may not be Andrew-( the President of the school ) and have the whole school under me but I am the Captain of Gladiators and I have the green house and this year I Praseeda Prasad ,will put my best efforts to ensure that Gladiators (or the green people as I call them) win the house cup!!!
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