On Thursday I had to prepare two things:
So yeah. I printed tons of materials (probably amounting to slightly over 50 pages) so I can be really prepared on Friday. Chinese panel discussion was about teacher-student relationship (探讨师生关系), so there are generally quite a lot of information that has been provided. However, on Friday morning, the entire discussion was EXTREMELY quiet -_- And not one soul wanted to participate in the discussion except for Tze Han. The other panellists were ill-prepared too - none of their information was crafted to last for the entire session (typically only about 1 minute or so in speech). So obviously I was nervous, and there was also this bunch of people who were sleeping behind, and another group who were playing some lame stuff on paper.
Well yeah. I was quite frustrated by the attitude of my classmates. Those who usually spoke up like Yi Zhang didn't do so, and well, maybe it's just the style of how I conducted the discussion. Probably I'm a boring person, and well, people just don't get entertained. Having said that, I could also trace the dull-ness of the entire discussion to the lackadasical attitude that many had. Even while a teacher was observing from outside the window, there were few lost souls who were sleeping. It was such a disgrace to our class. I'm deeply antagonised by the fact that we don't actually have any class spirit at all. Nobody seemed to have a sense of belonging to 4L, or nobody even had basic mutual respect to listen attentively while their classmates are speaking. Even the CMC members were not responsible enough to keep the class in check.
Speaking of respect, I am deeply upset that someone had actually vandalised my table (as an insult to Darryl, as that table was originally Darryl's seat). If I were Darryl, I would not feel pleased. Dear 4L, it is against Darryl's wish to have such vocals, it's really not what he wanted. I'm alright with the constant "blr blr", but vandalism is really overboard.
I didn't really want to make this rant, but I felt everything was intolerable.
Anyway, what was interesting on Friday was the BlueSky Enterprise Day 2008. It was held during lesson time, and the entire event was located near our classroom. So yeah, between lessons we actually went out to "participate" in this event. There were some primary school kids from Si Ling Primary, and yeah, they wore yellow blazers (so cute ^_^). And there were many other schools there, Jurong Junior College, etc.
And there was even a mobile Old Chang Kee stall set up behind our classroom, and everyone went insane (partly because of Zhang Quan's prescence). Many camped near there (:
CCA on Friday was pretty normal, continuing our video editing course.
During the posting time, Green Concert in the boarding school is about to start. But it was delayed to 8:30 PM since it was raining. I'll post some photos after the event then (:
- Background information for Chinese Panel Discussion
- Background information for English Panel Discussion
So yeah. I printed tons of materials (probably amounting to slightly over 50 pages) so I can be really prepared on Friday. Chinese panel discussion was about teacher-student relationship (探讨师生关系), so there are generally quite a lot of information that has been provided. However, on Friday morning, the entire discussion was EXTREMELY quiet -_- And not one soul wanted to participate in the discussion except for Tze Han. The other panellists were ill-prepared too - none of their information was crafted to last for the entire session (typically only about 1 minute or so in speech). So obviously I was nervous, and there was also this bunch of people who were sleeping behind, and another group who were playing some lame stuff on paper.
Well yeah. I was quite frustrated by the attitude of my classmates. Those who usually spoke up like Yi Zhang didn't do so, and well, maybe it's just the style of how I conducted the discussion. Probably I'm a boring person, and well, people just don't get entertained. Having said that, I could also trace the dull-ness of the entire discussion to the lackadasical attitude that many had. Even while a teacher was observing from outside the window, there were few lost souls who were sleeping. It was such a disgrace to our class. I'm deeply antagonised by the fact that we don't actually have any class spirit at all. Nobody seemed to have a sense of belonging to 4L, or nobody even had basic mutual respect to listen attentively while their classmates are speaking. Even the CMC members were not responsible enough to keep the class in check.
Speaking of respect, I am deeply upset that someone had actually vandalised my table (as an insult to Darryl, as that table was originally Darryl's seat). If I were Darryl, I would not feel pleased. Dear 4L, it is against Darryl's wish to have such vocals, it's really not what he wanted. I'm alright with the constant "blr blr", but vandalism is really overboard.
I didn't really want to make this rant, but I felt everything was intolerable.
Anyway, what was interesting on Friday was the BlueSky Enterprise Day 2008. It was held during lesson time, and the entire event was located near our classroom. So yeah, between lessons we actually went out to "participate" in this event. There were some primary school kids from Si Ling Primary, and yeah, they wore yellow blazers (so cute ^_^). And there were many other schools there, Jurong Junior College, etc.
And there was even a mobile Old Chang Kee stall set up behind our classroom, and everyone went insane (partly because of Zhang Quan's prescence). Many camped near there (:
CCA on Friday was pretty normal, continuing our video editing course.
During the posting time, Green Concert in the boarding school is about to start. But it was delayed to 8:30 PM since it was raining. I'll post some photos after the event then (:
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