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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

I finally completed my 5-item test for NAPFA today! Sit-ups (A), Standing Broad Jump (D), Sit and Reach (A), Inclined Pull-ups (A), Shuttle Run (B), and I passed my 2.4 km run last week.

No more NAPFA for the rest of my life! It is a cause for celebration!

Other than that, I went for my first class CIP today. We were late because we attended the PSC scholarships talk before that. At first Jessica was supposed to go, but she decided not to, and abandoned Melody and I, the two who haven't gone before, to go by ourselves. Luckily we didn't get lost.

We didn't know where to go, but thankfully these people delivering free food from YWC showed us the way, and an Indian lady Mrs Raja showed us kids to help. I helped this kid do a math problem sum, before being shifted to another kid, to show him to do long division.

I was really annoyed with him because he wasn't really paying attention, and simply kept saying how difficult it was to divide 525 by 3. I didn't mind so much that he didn't know how to do it, but that he was distracted by anything happening around him, and obviously didn't really want to learn.

Plus, the other kids weren't being helpfully quiet, including a girl who was asking me Science questions, when I'm sure she's one of those who doesn't need the tuitioning. Behind me was another table with two Saint something School girls with a bunch of rowdy kids.

I was suddenly reminded of yesterday's Chemistry Reaction Kinetics Consolidation lesson with Ms Ang. There was only one of her and 25+ of us, and we were making so much noise, also claiming not to be able to draw the graph and such. I suppose that in that respect, we're much worse than the kids, because we're old enough to understand when to be quiet and listen or do work seriously.

We really ought to respect our teachers. I'm sure most of them put in a lot of effort for us their students, making powerpoint lecture slides, marking assignments, giving consolidation / remedials / consultation, teaching us, standing up in class when we all sit down (except our Lit teachers, lol), coming up with extra worksheets for our revision etc.

Before accusing teachers of being bad or unknowledgeable or being annoying, try asking yourself whether you could do a better job.

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xuan blogged at 7:10 PM

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