I don’t really recall I have a time when I felt as if I altered public space. But I do have some experience when someone alters the public space in this way. I guess this is fairly common in Pacific American School. Whenever the lunch bell rang, everyone will rush out of their class room and dash to the cafeteria to be the first one to get lunch and avoid the long queue. Lunch time is probably the most fabulous time during school day. Everyone would use that precious 30 to 45 minutes to enjoy their café food, whether they are like it or not, and have the social time to exchange gossips, people’s feeling toward a test, teacher or the overall school activities. I guess all of our conversations are all quite normal, except once in a while boys will talk about some inappropriate jokes. However, most of our conversation will be in mandarin. This comes into a problem. Whenever our headmaster Ms Pamela walks into the cafeteria, immediately, table to table, people will stop their chats. It seems like she is some kind of mute button that whenever Ms Pamela enters, people will start whispering “Ms Pamela is here, English, English.” Although people do sometimes immediately change their Mandarin conversation into an English one, most people just stop their talk and focus on their food. It is exceptionally funny that our noisy cafeteria will be immediately silence just by the appearance of one individual.
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