My third week at school (Personal Recount Assignment 2)

It is the third week of school already! How fast time passes really amazes me as it seems that I have only attended school for a day only. Although it is only the third week, lessons have resumed to normal like last year's and we have been given quite a few projects already.

Last time, when I was in Primary school, my older friends always tell me that Secondary School is going to be stressful and I have to spend a lot of time and effort to excel, but I dismiss their saying and even once said "How hard would it be?". Now I have finally understood what they mean. Projects, tons of them and homework too!

Although I am already feeling stressful about the amount of projects I have, I feel like I am having fun and learning many things when I am doing a project. The largest scale project now is the upcoming Online Project Work, or the OPW. Although the OPW seems like a project that would be hard to do and would take forever, I am actually looking forward to it. I have already come up with a few plausible ideas for a good piece of work.

With more things to learn and more projects to do, 2008 seem like a year which I can learn a lot and a good year for me to improve my grades. Oh yes, everyone student was told to do some kind of target setting on Monday morning according to the expected results for me calculated by some computer with a quite-good-but-there-is-still-areas-that-can-be-improved-on formula. Although I was the overall first in my class last year (I am not boasting, but just using statistics for calculation and explanation of concepts), I was expected only to get a Mean Subject Grade of 2.2, which is not quite spectacular. I even felt that the computer underestimated me in some areas, like English, Literature and Geography although I did quite well for these subjects last year. Instead, I was expected to score well in those subjects which were not-up-to-expectations last year. I felt confused (maybe not confused, just irritated for some reason). After discussing with some of my classmates, I realised that the expected grades were calculated with reliance most on our PSLE scores, not our past-year grades. One good example is Pratahban, who had a score of 260, was expected to get a Mean Subject Grade of 1.0!

Of the many interesting things that happened on the first half of the week, the most interesting was when we were taking photos at dangerous angles for the ridiculous Mathematics project which required us to measure the diameter of the large school crest mounted on the outside wall of the school auditorium.

So far, the week has been quite normal and nothing really special happened, but we should be expecting a fire drill tomorrow at 9.15am (just a guess by me to try to prove that I am good at predicting things. I will hope that it is accurate, because I just got a feeling of it), which is going to be quite an experience for us.

Okay, I have nothing left to talk about. I just hope that the remaining half of the week will be more interesting and fun-filled!