Friday, September 08, 2006
omg the local immersion programme just ended today. :/ so sad. haha this whole week felt so short. :/ bleah. anyway. i think everyone in klasse 9 has been very nice and kind to all of us, so here's a big thank you to you, klasse 9! (: haha. even those who were cold at first became nicer over the days. yepp. (: ohh gosh. yeah so my week at GESS was really enjoyable thanks to all of you (: haha. heh today we were all exchanging email addresses and stuff. it got pretty sad towards the end of the day but, nvm. we'll keep in touch! haha okay.
so here's an update on the last 2 days.
thursday.
haha okay. we had geog and math in the morning. heh no wonder math was so boring for the last 3 days! haha we didn't realise that they split classes during math, physics, chem, bio, deutsch and french! they split the class into 2: those who are better, and those who are bad. yeah! so for the last 3 days, we were in the "bad" math class... that's why it was so boring! haha.
so anyway, on thurs, we went to the "better" math class so it was more interesting. (: *beams* they were doing things like solving simultaneous equations. they have a different way of solving the equations! neither by elimination or substitution. i dunno, it's some confusing way. yeah. this math teacher is very good! haha. ooh and he looks like french footballer zidane! with the shaved head and squarish beard. similar build too! haha so cool right. yeah and he's the physics teacher for the "better" class, and the form teacher of klasse 9 too! haha. i think he's called herr sprung or something. (x
german was boring. sigh. i expected it to be interesting, but no. they were annotating german poems. totally boring. the teacher was boring too. and strict. :/ haha then french. we got chased out of class, cos they were having a french test. so the teacher was like "they're having a test now! there's nothing for you to see... maybe you can go to the Bibliothek! " yeah okay. so we went to the library. haha. the library is small but cosy. and there's a very warm smell of coffee in the library. and the books there are all very new (: *beams* so i just sat there and read artemis fowl: the opal deception (: haha.
next was this lesson called TUT. erm. it's something like our cle; they use it for discussing class issues and stuff. yeah so basically they spent some time complaining to zidane-lookalike about the cafeteria. yeah dunno what they were complaining about, but he said he'd do something about it. then we played jeopardy! haha it was just general knowledge kinda questions. there were 6 categories: history, geog, entertainment, sport, politics and technology, and there were 200, 400, 600, 800, and 1000 point questions. (: heh it was really fun! we split into 2 teams for the game, but in the end it was a draw. haha. despite the fact that my team lost 1000 points for answering the 1000 pt geog question wrongly. (: ohhh and haha one of the history questions was: when was The Wall built? haha. obviously, the wall in question was the berlin wall right? but then one of the students asked: do you mean the chinese one or what? lol. anyway. the team didn't know when the berlin wall was built. that's kinda sad cos they're native german! haha.
friday.
double block german in the morning. damn boring. i tried listening for a while, then gave up. so i spent the rest of the time looking out of the window. [the classroom window overlooks the carpark and the main gate] yeah so i saw many kindergarten kids walking in, pushing their sibling's stroller. so cute right. the strollers are even bigger than them! (: hee. then i saw 2 boys playing with the primitive kinda string telephone. (: then i saw a teacher hugging a parent. yeah.
next was physics. haha. they were doing some online research, so we were left to our devices. (:
next: history. boring. more bismarck stuff again. this time, about bismarck and the catholic community. hmmm. then math. the usual! solving equations and stuff. but not so boring. whew.
i realised that their science lessons are very interesting, but their humanz lessons are totally ugh. hmm. same in our school (:
lunch! haha my first time having lunch in the school. (: it was not bad... quite nice. today's meal was sirloin steak, potatoes, tomato with cheese, and salad. (: hee. herr neiser dropped by during lunch to settle some admin stuff. haha. yeah so after eating, we were exchanging contacts and just sitting around the courtyard. haha. then there was this guy talking to us. haha. he pretended that he was katharina's father. then he said he comes every break to chase the boys away from katharina. lol. then after that he said he was actually her bodyguard. :p lol. yeah so he proudly scanned the vicinity and said, "see, no boys around! " lol so amusing. (: turns out he was a dutch pe teacher. lolz.
chem! haha. double block. i'm so glad i stayed back for it. it really rocked! even though they were doing periodic trends, which we've already covered in school. haha. they have cool protective gear! it's like this long visor covering the whole face, with a little helmet on top. haha. i think it's safer that way. oohh but the scary thing is that they don't have test tube holders! so when the teacher was trying to test for hydrogen, he just held the testtube near the flame with this bare hands! like omg. :/ freaky! then he showed us the reactivity of sodium with water. and then we were burning some compounds too. there was one that burned with a red flame. like, really red. but i can't remember which compound it was. :/ohh i forgot to mention that the chem teacher is also the hot bio teacher. same person. maybe they don't have enough teachers or something.
yeah so it's over! sigh. we took some pictures, but i don't have them now... i'll post them when my friends email the pics to me. yepp. then you all can see the students! haha. their looks are not bad (: quite nice. mostly.
argh. back to school next week. :/
anyway.
i went to clementi arcade at sunset way with my mom to eat the mille crepes! haha. it's the famous one in the newspapers! the one where you pile up 20 pieces of crepes to make a cake-like thingy. it rocked! haha. i like the caramel thingy on top! haha well actually i luved the whole thing! haha. (:
yepp okay. that's it for today (: haha.
