Wednesday, September 06, 2006
haha here's an update on my very interesting week! (:
okay.
monday:
haha there were supposed to be 15 moelc students at the german school, but only 8 of us turned up.. haha but nvm. small group is more fun. (: hee okay. the school is very very nice! it's really green, as in the building is green, and it's situated in bukit tinggi road which is quite forested. (: yeah so the environment is pretty nice. (: and not so swelteringly hot too. duh. the forest is quite thick there. (: haha and it's also green in the sense that it's full of recycling bins here and there, and you don't see a single plastic bag in sight, not even in the canteen [they use plates; and strictly no take-away food] yeah and if they need carriers, they use jute bags. very environmentally friendly. (: i like (:
ohh and the canteen is very nice. it's really clean and bright, and they don't have multiple stalls. they just have this buffet-table-like thingy, with 2 refrigerators for drinks. yeah. and the counter is manned by singaporean aunties who try and act germie by wearing green contact lenses, which look so totally ewww on them. :/ ugh.
ohh and they don't have long canteen benches. they have those cool patio tables and proper chairs with proper backing. (: and the toilet is really clean too [considering the fact that the toilet is in the canteen]
yeah okay anyway. so i was posted to klasse 9 with xiwen[nygh girl] and jiwei[ ri guy] and another ri guy[i still dunno his name]the rest of the moelc students were posted to klasse 8a and klasse 8b. haha. the people in our class are about 14 to 15 years old, but they look at least 17. like they are so mature. the girls wear perfume and make-up and dangling earrings. yeah so in this sense i like singaporean schools better. [i mean, students should dress like students right?] and they have to wear a green shirt[part of the uniform] but they can wear whatever bottom they wish to. and they can just wear their own blouse under the green shirt, and not button the green shirt. some of them come in flip flops. ohhh and they are allowed to bring their own laptops for note taking. haha but half the time, they're actually on msn. hmm.
haha i realised that the students in the school can be classified into 2 broad categories: the cold, and the friendly. yeah. but the friendly ones were really nice. sehr nett. (: they showed us round the school very hospitably.
our buddies from klasse 9 are: Katarina, Luise, Anne and Tanja. (: Katarina is very very nice, Luise has unique slanted grey eyes, Anne is also very very nice [she added me to msn. (: yayy] Tanja is also very nice and cool; she's half german and half honky, so the only part of her that looks european is her sharp nose.
yeah anyway. first 2 blocks was Sport. the girls and boys are separated during sport; the boy do swimming and the girls do football. (: haha. yeah they're all very pro at football. haha. but i got quite bored cos the sport lesson lasted for like 1.5 hours! yeah.[ i'd scream if i have to do softball for 1.5 hours during pe. ] i like their sports complex! it's really cool... it's some distance away from the main building, so you have to walk along this rainforest-trail-like thingy to get to the sports complex. and the multipurpose hall in the sports complex is really cool. it's just this beeeg hall with all the necessary equipment like soccer nets, basketball hoops, badminton nets, etc. and the basketball hoops and badminton nets are suspended from the ceiling by metal pieces and wires, so if you wanna use them, you have to press some button and they'll be lowered to the ground. but if you don't need them, you can leave them on the ceiling so they don't make the hall look congested. (: yeah.
then it was a ten minute break before french. haha. they were learning letter writing, which i attempted to learn, but didn't really understand it. haha but i roughly know the format. (: the writer's address is at the top left corner, and then the date[la date!] and the dunno what is on the top right hand corner (: beams and then there's the la salutations[whatever that is] at the bottom. see, i am pro! (;
then it was a 20 min break. then music for 1.5 hours. music was stupid. they were singing, and then after that they were doing some grade 1 theory kinda stuff. [which they were struggling through]
and that was it. slack day right. kinda boring. but still fun anyway.
tuesday:
first 2 blocks: biologie! haha i haven't felt so interested in bio for a long time! haha. yeah they were learning about the brain and the nervous system. i think their bio teacher is really really good! he really
teaches. yeah. now i know a little about the brain and the sympathicus and parasympathicus. (: hee. and i had to take notes in german. (: haha everyone there writes with typical german handwriting (: cool :p
10 min break, then english. boring. they were learning about clauses and law breaking and stuff. bleah. haha the english teacher was proudly proclaiming the fact that he had never broken the law before. o.0
big achievement. and then it was 20 min break again, then geog. haha we were all struggling through the worksheet on climate. rainfall and stuff. haha. but it was fun yeah. (: then was math. gags. they were doing graphs! omg. thank goodness it was linear graphs only. (:
wednesday!
heh. first block history. they were learning about the different parties in parliament. haha and dunno why the history teacher just decided to ask me about Bismarck. so i was like "huh?" and then he was like, "nein? du weisst nicht wer Bismarck ist?" ["no? you don't know who bismarck is?"] oops. apparently he's some important figure in german history. heh.
then religion. they split up into 3 classes: catholic, protestant and i think lutheran. duh i went to the catholic one. the teacher is pretty strict. haha but the lesson was quite funny. he gave us this cartoon map of the "country of love" and asked us to pick our favourite state. so most people picked things like the state of peace, or the state of happy love, or the state of true love, etc.[if you're wondering why they sound so corny, it's because i translated the german names literally haha] lol. then the ri guy whose name i don't know picked a really weird state: the state of fixed ideas! hmmm. then everyone was like" huh" and the teacher said very diplomatically, "now that's new, why that choice?" haha.
yepp then next was ict. like our comp studs lessons. then math. the usual graphs. and then physics. haha they're doing electricity now. calculating resistance and stuff. and we did a practical too. (: fun. haha. (: i realised the germans are pretty advanced in the sciences, but not so for math. haha.
yeah so anyway. 2 days more! haha ohh on friday, i'm gonna stay back until 3 o'clock just to sit in for their chem lessons! [normally i stay until 12:30] haha. it's the only chem lesson they'll be having in the week and i really really wanna have chem in german! haha. it's like combining my 2 favourite subjects together! (: hee so exciting.
okay gtg
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chngmin: haha hello thx! (: whee. miss you lots! haven't seen you for ages! :/
