a walk in my stilettos

It’s nearing 2 in the morning now.. Cramming in a last-minute post before I get busy all over again starting next Monday.. over the next few days until school reopens shall be endless video editing, ppt slides, music, pictures, rehearsals and all that for the oncoming investiture.. tsk tsk tsk.

Right.. back to the topic.

My new buddy Liying commented that kids over in China are somewhat similiar to Singapore’s when we shared whenever it comes to studying and school. They doze off, switch off and lala when the lessons gets on their nerves and bores them out of their guts. Very relative eh. Right.. I ever mentioned that every school day at 9.30am the whole school gathers for 广播操 right? Liying says that another reason for this is to prevent kids from sleeping in class also.. :P This is quite interesting how students can score so well in their tests and exams spite how they learn through the five days of serious observation.. Actually their studying methods are rather similiar to that of ours.. They talk in their own small groups, they discuss whenever the need calls for it, they joke, they laugh and everything we do.. Psst.. They also have ‘relationships’ and rumors, but since the school has this strict rule that they do not allow relationships AT ALL, they have to hide here and there.. A new friend from my row actually kena from the DM.. Had to write reflections and all.. Heh.. :P

What is interesting about Shangwen’s lessons is that they infuse this ‘第二课堂’ into their curriculum. Although they study for a whooping 8 hours one day, it does not simply study straight throughout.. I think it’s on every Wednesday that they have this. So all the students go for different things that interests them.. Like what I went for was Mathematical Geometry, Flower-making, Robotics, etc etc. This is very much funny.. It is called Mathematical Geometry in english but I think it isn’t.. Nothing to do with Maths at all. I was thinking, I want to see how hard the maths is in China when I already cannot do ’simple maths’ back home.. But in the end it was all about squares, circles and triangles.. AHHHH.. I was so uh-huh when I got to know.. Just in case you don’t know yet, I never passed Art for a long time already.. :P Uber shiok when the teacher was so motivating to keep saying “对的.. 你很聪明的..” whenever she went on her rounds.. How many teachers in Singapore actually praises that you are CLEVER in front of the whole class lor!! HAHAHAHAHA. Though I admit I fell asleep.. But I survived through the whole lesson.. I tried my best ya.. MINDSET OF EXCELLENCE!

Hmm.. Seems like long and it’s 7 days since we’ve came back already.. 2 weeks to a different life and I got a little bit of adapting-back to do.. Like how I have to keep reminding myself that the buses’ doors back here are on the left, not the right anymore.. that water from the tap is drinkable already, no more hussle about boiling this and that.. and of course the temperature’s a killer.. I miss China’s temperature.. hardly sweating at all (for shanghai and hangzhou at least.. i don’t know whether it is like that all the time for shaoxing?) and it’s not like super cold lor..

When I first put on the 红领巾 I was in all thoughts that it was ugly and disgusting, and it was a wonder how all China kids are able to live on with something like that.. But after coming to understand the rich meaning and culture behind it, I somewhat start to miss wearing it already.. grrr.. why huh!

K.. till then..

PinkyDreams & PinkyFlowers
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