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moving on, happenings at school!
AUGH the school management really bugs me. they still don’t recognize an overseas holiday as a valid reason for absence during Celebrating Values Day. its like, I’m already missing out on extra lessons, and you think I should pay more? holidays were meant to be a BREAK from school for crissake, and now you have extra lessons and planned events being COMPULSORY plus omg what is the PROBLEM with treating a holiday like a holiday??? grrrrr.
I have been insanely busy for the past week. there were a couple of economics essays I had to finish, and a multitude of other assignments. and omg PW! conservation and emergency. I am rather apprehensive. Sam (my unbiological sister) and Axell and I all don’t want to end up in a group with a particular someone, whom we have all had bad experiences with. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the grouping turns out ok.
next, I shall rant about council. its really slow, like, Iman finds out about whether she got in TODAY. and our introductory speech is next Thursday. lol whut.
but anyway, I felt really bad that I didn’t contribute much to the presentation since it was done mostly during the holidays… because I know how people hate it when they’re team mates don’t do work… everyone was supremely nice about it though. cool people, the whole lot of them. so we were doing a presentation on the school, and my group was allocated the Academic programmes. I was supposed to do on the pe department, which I found out the evening I came back, and I had to get the slides out by noon the next day. but it worked out ok. later I went to interview one of the PE teachers about certain aspects about the programmes. at the end of the interview I got spooked because she asked me what house I was in, and when I said ‘rodney’ she kinda exclaimed in joyful surprise and called over another teacher and told him I was from Rodney and trying out for council and he was joyfully surprised as well and then they asked me if I knew anyone else in Rodney trying out for council and I said not really and they let me go. -sucks in breath- so I was really paranoid that they might stick me in exco due to a shortage of rodneys or something.
the presentation was meant to be finished on Thursday, but it stretched, so I was actually part of the last group to present on Friday. I was so NERVOUS omg omg. I stuttered and stumbled my way through my part, but later when I asked some people, they said I sounded quite fluent. I hope they were right. I was COLD (my fingernails turn blue) and HUNGRY (the last meal I had was like 8 hours before. though I had almond jelly with longan after that, with my peeps from my sg :> ) and TIRED from supreme lack of sleep. and the student council test that morning was ridiculous. how the heck would I know how many geography teachers there are? or why would I want to count how many sports ccas? or for how long the school has been organizing some tamil pre-u talks? come onnn.
but when they split us into groups to tell us the ‘verdict’, my worst fears were unrealized, we were now officially the student council elects :D phew. there were a couple of people here that originally wanted to be in house exco (2 from my group alone) but they were shifted over because apparently management felt they were more suited for council. there was also a girl who wanted council but got into house exco instead, which she told me she really didn’t want. however, we were all told that we would not be able to quit after these selections, to which she said she would work towards being sacked. as in, not doing anything, not attending any meetings etc. hmmm mixed feelings, but its her choice, really. though I think if I got put in house exco, I would stay there.
so, now I have to prepare for campaigning. my speech is written, which wasn’t too horrible because they gave us guidelines and it only needs to be one minute. but one minute in front of the whole school, holy macaroon. and I was so nervous with just half a lecture theatre.
I also need ideas for publicity… posters are pretty much a given, but I want to be creative and original there as well… I’m thinking comic strip. or something. Sam suggested buttons, which financially might be alright if we make them. ahh Sam is an amazing person really, she offered to help me out with campaigning and all, and I just can’t understand why she didn’t want to join sc as well because she would be so great.
ideas and suggestions are welcome!
cheerio,
~Za
AUGH the school management really bugs me. they still don’t recognize an overseas holiday as a valid reason for absence during Celebrating Values Day. its like, I’m already missing out on extra lessons, and you think I should pay more? holidays were meant to be a BREAK from school for crissake, and now you have extra lessons and planned events being COMPULSORY plus omg what is the PROBLEM with treating a holiday like a holiday??? grrrrr.
I have been insanely busy for the past week. there were a couple of economics essays I had to finish, and a multitude of other assignments. and omg PW! conservation and emergency. I am rather apprehensive. Sam (my unbiological sister) and Axell and I all don’t want to end up in a group with a particular someone, whom we have all had bad experiences with. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the grouping turns out ok.
next, I shall rant about council. its really slow, like, Iman finds out about whether she got in TODAY. and our introductory speech is next Thursday. lol whut.
but anyway, I felt really bad that I didn’t contribute much to the presentation since it was done mostly during the holidays… because I know how people hate it when they’re team mates don’t do work… everyone was supremely nice about it though. cool people, the whole lot of them. so we were doing a presentation on the school, and my group was allocated the Academic programmes. I was supposed to do on the pe department, which I found out the evening I came back, and I had to get the slides out by noon the next day. but it worked out ok. later I went to interview one of the PE teachers about certain aspects about the programmes. at the end of the interview I got spooked because she asked me what house I was in, and when I said ‘rodney’ she kinda exclaimed in joyful surprise and called over another teacher and told him I was from Rodney and trying out for council and he was joyfully surprised as well and then they asked me if I knew anyone else in Rodney trying out for council and I said not really and they let me go. -sucks in breath- so I was really paranoid that they might stick me in exco due to a shortage of rodneys or something.
the presentation was meant to be finished on Thursday, but it stretched, so I was actually part of the last group to present on Friday. I was so NERVOUS omg omg. I stuttered and stumbled my way through my part, but later when I asked some people, they said I sounded quite fluent. I hope they were right. I was COLD (my fingernails turn blue) and HUNGRY (the last meal I had was like 8 hours before. though I had almond jelly with longan after that, with my peeps from my sg :> ) and TIRED from supreme lack of sleep. and the student council test that morning was ridiculous. how the heck would I know how many geography teachers there are? or why would I want to count how many sports ccas? or for how long the school has been organizing some tamil pre-u talks? come onnn.
but when they split us into groups to tell us the ‘verdict’, my worst fears were unrealized, we were now officially the student council elects :D phew. there were a couple of people here that originally wanted to be in house exco (2 from my group alone) but they were shifted over because apparently management felt they were more suited for council. there was also a girl who wanted council but got into house exco instead, which she told me she really didn’t want. however, we were all told that we would not be able to quit after these selections, to which she said she would work towards being sacked. as in, not doing anything, not attending any meetings etc. hmmm mixed feelings, but its her choice, really. though I think if I got put in house exco, I would stay there.
so, now I have to prepare for campaigning. my speech is written, which wasn’t too horrible because they gave us guidelines and it only needs to be one minute. but one minute in front of the whole school, holy macaroon. and I was so nervous with just half a lecture theatre.
I also need ideas for publicity… posters are pretty much a given, but I want to be creative and original there as well… I’m thinking comic strip. or something. Sam suggested buttons, which financially might be alright if we make them. ahh Sam is an amazing person really, she offered to help me out with campaigning and all, and I just can’t understand why she didn’t want to join sc as well because she would be so great.
ideas and suggestions are welcome!
cheerio,
~Za