Bitterness It's been a week after I found out that I was not in the list of new teachers recruitment. I managed to get in the right track again. Yesterday, however, the thing that I really wanted to avoid happened.And that struck me hard. On my way to cafeteria in our university, I came across a bunch of novice teachers who were just recruited. In fact, they were the ones who passed the exam that I had tried. What is worse was that I specifically ran into my fellows, who studied together for that exam. They won the game. I lost the game. Standing in line for lunch, I felt I was an island, or poor boy, who needed sympathy. Eventually, I got to eat lunch surrounded by the whole newly recruited teachers. They seemed to be happy with the thinking that they are going to teach and make their living. The lunch was pretty good, but I just wanted to eat right away and sneak out of the cafeteria before another encounter with my fellows.