by Jay Shree

Created on: June 06, 2010

Aunt Stella was my aunt from my paternal side. Well being daddy's youngest sister and having a age gap of almost 20 years with myself seems normal yet when your aunt enroll into the same college as you, it definitely lifts eyelashes among friends and foes. Aunt Stella wanted your do her degree in Chemistry at the age of 41, after holding a diploma certificate for 15 years and being a faithful worker at a pharmacy center. Well we only caught each others attention occasionally at Grandma's birthday party or Uncle Ron's barbecue party once or twice every year, but now thinking of the fact that my aunt is going to end up being my own classmate, nightmares seems less stressful somehow.

The first day she walked into class, Daisy and Tati, both my down-to -earth buddies was all elbowing me the entire day. I myself can't avoid glances from peers and lecturers. Luckily day two went smoothly. Aunt Stella wasn't that bad after all, she kept to herself, only now and then asking questions when necessary, the class suddenly adored her and called her Big Sis especially at times she would help them with their course works and thankfully to my parents my godmother has become my own personal tutor.

Many would have wondered how she ended up with the nickname ‘Crazy’ by my classmates, I still laugh to makes at those unexpected acts she put on at labs. One rainy Monday, she planned for potassium havoc in class, as she calls it. She placed a small potassium piece in a pail of water at the door entrance to the lab minutes after the lecturer walked in. At first all of us felt puzzled, wondering why she was putting chalks into that pail of water, of course it wasn't until seconds later we heard the water bucket burst with a mini like tsunami sprinkling water all our the class. The whole class burst into laughter with shocked faced Mrs. William, running out of the lab shouting for help.

No matter how much I see worries in life, the day Aunty Stella fooled the college was the best prank rated by the entire college, and to me, it showed me how worries in life can be lifted if wanted. On the 1st of April 1998, was a day I’ll never forget what Aunt Stella did for me that nearly got her expelled. The night before that I drove to Hip shy Club to party with my friends just to lighten up the tense mode clinging to me for weeks now. The next day was supposedly the beginning of my final exams, the paper which I feared the most, Chemistry Paper Two. Unfortunately for me, drinking

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