TGIF, seriously...
as strangely welcoming as these 3 days has been back in school, i'm completely burnt out, and can't even fathom doing the work i need to tomorrow...
which is why i had to take a rain check on deon's invitation to go shopping tomorrow...
(we'll go to Pedro soon yeah!)
i've finally met all my teachers, and things are turning out quite alright...
i'm totally digging having D.Yap back for math, and my E.A1 team of Merv.G&Ferd.Q is arguably the best HL pairing, apart from the dean&deputydean pairing that .13 has...
and TKH for chem is hilarious as a chem teacher, and i think his teaching style will be similar to CKC's, which evidently matched me if last year's results were any indication...
additionally, i think CKC is arguably the most committed teacher i've met in all my years of schooling so far - he bothered to come down today during our first chem lesson to make sure we had all our IAs filed before passing us over to the new teacher...
and i'm glad to say all my IAs are neatly in order =)
on the "neutral" list lies history, and although i know most would judge him harshly, wty has actually taught me quite a bit, seeing as i've never taken history before and many of my classmates had the benefit of 2 years of alv.tan or someone similar... that said, he still hasn't taken my feedback about not having superfluous activities during lessons, as he proceeded to promptly ask us to participate in his "word splash"... like WTH??!!
i refused to take down those key terms until he actually told us something about them and what they had to do with my Chinese History knowledge, which i really gathered from listening to my classmates instead of him... and i hope the ppt slides he showed us will be shown again or printed 'cos he totally didn't give me time to copy what was actually useful...
and now i'm down to the one teacher whom i know i'm not gonna be having fond memories of - Mr Adrian Owen Mongan's less travelled, less experienced replacement, M.N.
as i've said, econs has become a self-study subject, as was E.A1's later texts from last year...
as the E.A1 course companion was my teacher for most of my hols, so will the Econs course companion be for all my long, long econs lessons this year...
2 lessons stand out in memory today -
the first was during F.Q's 2 english periods today...
in the first, he was talking about how him and M.G make a good team, and the latter is well-known for her feminist advocacy, and to that he replied -
"sometimes i really don't get it... so you've got breasts, deal with it! it's a natural burden"
but lessons-wise, the second period we had with him is possibly the most intense half an hour i've experienced so far this year...
without any warning, he simply dived straight into interpreting Siddharta, and i found myself furiously making notes without having time to process my own thoughts until after...
i was quite breathless after that lesson, but in a very good way...
the second was during chem, and as KH was leaving, he turned back holding up a file and told us that if we wanted a piece of history, we should take it...
laying it on the table with the name facing us, he said with slightly too much enthusiasm - "it's shyna's"
one of my classmates then replied,
"so is that why it's empty"
ahh, such wonderfully entertaining bits are what make school fun...
the CCA Fair this year was less interesting that last, but i did get to talk to gareth/ET and some others over the course of that hour as everyone was concentrated around the astroturf...
headed back feeling absolutely drained, but there's still EE to be tackled before Monday's lesson...
i just couldn't stop staring this afternoon
