Monday, May 24, 2010

Term 2 home learning class poem

School is a daily routine for us,
but in the morning I always make a fuss.
My school days awaited the holidays,
but not everyday is a Sunday.

Laughing was always heard,
not by the birds,
but by my fellow friends,
which always make me want to pee on my pants.

Class was like a group of bulls,
especially with Mrs Anu.
David would tend to shout,
sadly the class would outshout.

Soccer for PE is fantastic,
with William's kick.
Kevyn and I laughing our heads,
then the ball flying straight to my forehead.

Hwa Chong Institution is the school for me,
without the beauty,
there are still Jack and Zi Han,
who are always ready to be part of the fun.

Term 2 home learning class

Q1) You are to write an analysis of the poem given above and put it up in your blog. The analysis should include: What were the poet’s thought/ feelings as he thought about his school days?

A1) The poem is about the poems school days. Firstly, the poet's is trying to convey the annual life of his school days. For the 1st stanza, he's trying to say that his uniform comes with a badge and his school logo has a latin motto on it. For the 2nd stanza, he's telling us that in his school days, there was a need to sing the National Anthem. For the 3rd stanza, he meant that he had P.E. on Wednesdays as his shoes tends to get dirty on Wednesdays. For the 4th stanza, it tells us that the poet admire the scouts a lot. For the 5th stanza, the malay chauffeurs are the bus drivers which meant that his school has bus services for the school. For the 6th stanza, is most likely to mean that the poet is not very good in maths. For the 7th stanza, during chinese new year, the poet's teacher would dress a malay costume, dancing and singing happily. For the 9th stanza, it meant that his best friend did badly for his chinese paper multiple-choice paper. For the 10th stanza, the poet is always proud to be inside the annual yearbook. For the 11th stanza, the poet meant that when he first came to the school, he had no friends but soon he met his friends and helped him prevent the loneliness. For the last stanza, the poet became so happy that everytime he smiled he would close his eyes.

Sabbatical WEEK!!

Hi everybody,

Today, I'm gonna talk about my Sabbatical Week! It is the nineth week of term 2 and I'm going to share the great fun I had last week. Try to make a guess of what my sabbatical is, I will tell you at the end of my post!

Day 1, it was an introduction of the rules of my sabbatical as we sat in the relaxing air-conditioned room. It was quite boring at the start but who knew, after the student trainers had done finish their speaking, their coach, 70-80+, nicknamed "demon" in chinese, was one of the funniest person I had ever met! If you don't believe you can ask the other people who joined this sabbatical. He taught us some of the skills he learned from real life experience! He was known to be the master of this sabbatical, amazing right? After the recess, he continued his lesson and at the end of the day we played game with each other.

Day 2, well at the start of the day it was pratically the same too. However, we got to play with the student trainers after recess. Guess what? I won! Not. They were just too good for me and I didn't had a chance against them. However, there were 3 people in total who won them! Okay, now let's go to day 3...

Day 3, as usual, the start of the day was the same. So, let's carry on with the end of the day. We got to play with the 70-80+ International Chinese Chess Master. He only played with 9 pieces instead of the usual 16 pieces! Do you think any of us won? Well, you got it right! None of us won...The title he has isn't called for nothing.

Day 4, again let's go to the end of the day. We were divided into 2 teams, red and black. In our groups, we took turns to go up to the big board to move the 'pieces'. The overall score was 1-1. Due to the shortage of time, we only got to play 2 games..

Day 5, the last day, also the competition day! The whole day was used to have the competition day! We played 7 games in total, with a total of 27 participants. Who do you think are the winners?! ORTUS, cool! Haha, okay, for 3rd we had 1o1, 2nd was 1o2 and 1st 1o4. The 1o3 me came in...18th!!! Oh wells, at least I didn't came in 27th.

Okay that's all, now can you guess my sabbatical? Actually I already told you, depends on whether you read it or not. My sabbatical is Chinese Chess!

Byes,
Jie Han