Such is the life of a Secondary 2 student in an elite school in Singapore:
- No matter how much you wish you could blog or use facebook, you find yourself restricted to the books. Wordy, boring textbooks. Not that we actually use our textbooks. We just seem to do worksheets, worksheets, common tests and more worksheets.
- Even the newspapers are seen to be a form of relaxation. Gone are the days when parents would wish and hope that their children would read the newspapers everyday so that they could be well-versed with current affairs.
- Teachers seem to think that schoolgoing children are bored during the weekend, so they pile them with homework. ( I believe that this weekend is a testament to this statement. I have just been bombarded with an extra long math worksheet and a geog assignment on Land Reclamation in Singapore. Plus, I have a math common test next tuesday. Can't a girl get some rest?)
Every one was high in school today :D We even started trying to "fish" the tree outside our classroom from the balcony. It is strangely satisfying.
Methodology:
- Tie some extra long string to the railing of the balcony of your classroom.
- Tie a nice, sturdy hanger to the end of this string.
- Make sure that the rest of the string is on the outside of the balcony and that there are no knots.
- Hold on to the hanger, take aim then shoot.
Point Scoring System:
Gold: If the hanger can knock down some leaves.
Silver: If the hanger goes over the tree branch and can make a couple of leaves fall.
Bronze: If the hanger goes over the branch.
Participation: The hanger doesn't go anywhere but the way that gravity pulls it.
Though I totally suck at this game, I find it strangely exhilarating.
And I don't know why I am chiminizing this entire entry. Must be the result of an overload of language arts assignments.
We have a total of 3. Three whole huge Language Arts assignments (all based on the scandalous and extremely irritating Merchant of Venice):
- A newspaper on the happenings in the MoV. (My group's doing a modern, atheist newspaper. Our feature article is on how Launcelot Gobbo's being mistreated by Shylock. However, we're basing it on domestic workers. In the end, Launcelot is under the employment of a maid agency. Our news report is on how Bassanio divorces Portia to marry Antonio (oh so scandalous). I'm supposed to do the opinion piece. I'm trying to write something on Madoff and Shylock. It just hasn't come to me yet.
- A compilation of class notes. (My group has set out to do Portia, Nerissa and their duty/friendship relationship.)
- ??? I can't remember what it is. Must be a result of the love for Fridays. I can't wait to relax so much, till I can't give a thought for school.
I just realised something. My entire group for the newspaper consists of prefect. ALL excluding me. Nice going. I'm going to have to be a goody-goody while I'm doing this project. Well, according to Christabelle and Gwen, I already am. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
But I don't know till I have experienced it myself.
