LIU WEI LI        S3-09       08/08/12

National Day celebration

             Today is Wednesday and it is our school’s national day celebration. This is the first time I celebrated another country’s national day. Before I went to school this morning, I thought the celebration would just be some performances by the students and then I can go home. However, it was actually different, it was actually much funner than I thought it would be. 

              A lot of parents came to school to help out the national day celebration. We could go to different places to play different games. The first game I played was called Five stones. There were five stages for this game and you could get nine stamps if you completed all the nine stages. The first few stages was actually very simple and I finished them very soon. Then, when it came to stage six, it became a lot harder. There were more steps and the each step were much harder. Of course the last stage was the hardest, the time I used to complete the ninth stage was actually the same as the time I used to complete first eighth stage. 

              In the first stage of the game, I had to throw all the five stones onto the ground. Then I picked up one in my hand and threw it onto the air. While the stone was still on the air, I had to pick up one on the ground and caught the one I just threw. I need to repeat the step until all the five stones are in my hand. Stage two is almost the same as stage one. I threw one onto the air and this time, I caught two on the ground instead of one. The third stage was catching three stones at one time. Hence, the first four stage was actually quite similar. The fifth stage was now a lot different and a lot harder but now I could not remember clearly. But I remembered somewhere in the middle, I had picked up two in my hand first. Then, I threw one of the two stones in my hand to the air and then put the other one in my hand on the ground. Then, I had to pick up another stone and catch the one that is falling from the air. The last stage was putting all five stones together on your hand. Then, you need to turn your hand over and using the back of your hand to catch at least four stones. Then, you had to do the same thing again. But this time you only had to catch at least three stones. 

               I also played some other games which I could not remember the name, but I think this one was the most interesting one. Our national day celebration in China was never this fun.

LIU WEI LI        S3-09       17/07/12

Chinese LC exam

       Today is Tuesday and it is the day of our Chinese listening comprehension exam. It was the second national exam we took this year. I felt lucky that the first few national exams were Chinese so that I could get to practice with such easy subject. Then the next time when it comes to English, I will already know the skill and won’t be too nervous.

       In the morning, we had terrible PE lesson. Without any doubt, we went for a fourteen-minute run again today. Although today is a running period but I still prayed that there won’t be any running today before the lesson. Anyway, before we went outside the school and started the running, we did some upper body exercise. We did some push-ups and chin-ups before the running. After that, the most terrible time came, we started running after a short briefing by Mr. Dennis. I run as slow as possible and I still feel tired after coming back.

       After the PE lesson, we had two English lessons. We were still doing the same thing today and we are going to do same thing again tomorrow which is predict, question, clarify and summarize the paragraphs. However, we did it in a different way today. We finish the work in a group of four today instead of finishing it individually. Our homework tonight is still the same thing which is finishing another paragraph in a group of four.

       After school, we stayed back for the Chinese listening comprehension exam. The duration of the exam was about half an hour. We went into the examination classroom about forty minutes before the exam started. During that forty minutes, we were listening to some music. Then, the exam started, the test was quite easy and it ended very soon. After the test, everyone in my class started to discuss the answers to the questions. I hate to discuss this with my classmates because I don’t want to know if I got any question wrong. Therefore, I went back immediately after the test. 

LIU WEI LI         S3-09         16/07/12

Discussion bout RH Day

         Today is Monday and I had to go back to school again. I did not have enough rest during the weekend so I felt tired today. I got up as late as I could today but I still wanted to sleep. I could not open my eyes during the first several sections. However, I still kept my eyes open because there will be a level test next week and I have to do well in this level test.

         There will be also a Chinese listening comprehension exam tomorrow but I think it will be very easy for me. I had done a listening comprehension practice once and the speed the person spoke was extremely slow. That was definitely not the speed that a person talk in normal life. However, lower speed can make it clearer and easier to follow though I am afraid that I my be lost somewhere in the middle. We are not going to have lesson this Friday due to the RH Day but we still have to come to school for some activities. Each class of the secondary three will represent a different country and our class is going to represent China which is my hometown. We will do many different things to make the sec one and sec two students to know better about the Chinese culture. I am going to do the paper cut and calligraphy work with three other students that day. I can do a little bit calligraphy but that was a long time ago. I learnt calligraphy when I was about seven years which was eight years ago. I don’t know whether I still have the skill or not and we will see on that day.

           I was informed that I won’t need to go to the basketball training tomorrow due to the B boys’ basketball competition. The coach and the teacher in charge are going to watch their match tomorrow so there won’t be any teacher to train us. I was happy because I could go back to the hostel four hours earlier than usual. 

LIU WEI LI           S3-09         15/07/12

Went to the bookshop

          Today is Sunday and it is was a quite boring day as I had nothing much to do during the day. I was still tired after yesterday’s Chinese literal camp about the book Dream of the red chamber. Also, I still got some homework to do which were English and Geography. The homework was not much. I spent about two hours finishing all the homework.

          I wanted to go to a movie in the afternoon, but I did not think I had enough time to go because I had to go to the supermarket to buy some stuff and I also need to go to pay my phone bill. I did not pay for my bill last month on time so I better pay it on time this month. After that, I went to bookshop and wanted to buy a book to read. I spent about an hour in the bookshop to find the book I was interested in. I did not know why I could not find all the classic books which were recommended by Ms. Kaur. Most of the book there were written in recent years. Finally, I noticed that there were some book written by Stephen King who was the only name I knew there. I picked up some of his books to read for a while and I decided to purchase the book called Full Dark, No Stars. I did not know exactly what the book was about, but I knew that Stephen King’s books should not be boring as I had read a lot of his books such as The Shawshank Redemption. I also watched some of movies that was made based on his works.

          I went back to hostel after leaving the bookshop and started reading the book when I reached the hostel. The book was kind of horror but the story seemed to be interesting. I could not give any comment until I finished the book.

LIU WEI LI           S3-09          14/07/12

Chinese camp

              Today is Saturday and I had to get up extremely early to attend the Chinese camp held in Raffles Girls’ School. It was quite far from our hostel so we had to leave early because the camp started at eight fifteen. 

              Jinming, Ruoyu and I got up a lot later than the planned time and Ziying and Carol left earlier than us because they think there weren’t enough time to reach the school if they waited for us. Hence we took a bus there when we all three of us were ready to leave. Actually we arrived there at then past eight which was five minutes earlier. After we got there, we found that the actual starting time was eight thirty. We could get up fifteen minutes later if we knew that. The camp started at eight thirty. The first part was the RGS’s Chinese music band presented us the music of the TV show A dream in red mansions which was also one of the most popular book in China. After that, two teachers came up to the stage and talked to us about the book. I started to have some interest in the book which I used to find extremely boring. 

               After breakfast time, we watched a show from the RGS students about the one story in the book The dream in red mansion. Then, we could choose two of the five speech to listen in different classroom. After lunch, we were asked to write an essay using the writing skills that the presenter of the presenters taught us. The last part of this camp is team game time. There were three games in total and our team won the third prize at last. We got some chocolate for that. 

               As soon as I reached my room, I went on my bed and had some sleep. I was too tired because of today’s activities. 

LIU WEI LI        S3-09        13/07/12

Second part of SST got talent

              Today is Friday and it is quite relaxing day because the PE lesson was completely not tired. This was the first time that the PE lesson was not tiring this term. I did not sweat at all in this PE lesson because the lesson was in the gym. There was air-conditioner in the gym so it was quite cool in there. We were doing the standing broad jump today and the others who were not doing the jump was doing other gym works. 

           There were two English lessons, a PE lesson and a Maths lesson. Ms. Kaur was not around during the two English lessons. I thought I could finally have time to finish my homework using this two English periods. However, Ms. Kaur still left some work for us to do. We had to continue doing the work which we hadn’t finished discussing for the last several days. I finished it in only one lessons so I started to do some other works in the second English lesson. 

              We need to leave the library a little bit earlier before the second English lesson ended because there was the second part of the SST got talent. There were about six shows in total today. The first show was supposed to be Davina’s ballet dance but it became the last because of some technical problems. There was another student playing the piano today and there were also some other students singing today. I think singing is the least creative idea. 

               We still did not have training today and I think it is because the C division boy had a competition today. The coach and the teacher in charge had to go to watch and coach their competition. Hence there was no teacher left to train us and we could go home as soon as the show ended. I was very happy about that. However, I was not happy about tomorrow because I am going to attend a Chinese camp and that means I have to get up at as early as six o’clock.

LIU WEI LI          S3-09          12/07/12

A sleepy day

            Today is Thursday and it was a very tiring day today because of the three-hour FOE lesson. Although I had had this lesson since half a year ago but I still could not get used to it. A three-hour lesson is still too hard for me. Today was also a very hard day for me because I was sleepy the whole day. I think it was mainly because I was very tiring because of yesterday’s basketball training and I did not have enough rest yesterday night to recover myself. 

                I could not open my eyes during the first few lessons especially physics because it was a lecture lesson. Mr. Tan was talking about temperature notes yesterday which was a little bit boring. The next lesson was social studies. In this lesson, Ms. Lim taught us how to write and social studies essay. We used Singapore healthcare system as the essay topic. We were asked to evaluate the three approaches of the healthcare system which are Encouraging self-reliance, working with organizations, adopting a healthy lifestyle. I did very bad in my essay writing in the last common test and I think I can get a very good result for Social studies if I improve my SEQ. I got quite high marks for the SBQ questions for the last three tests. In the English lesson, it was my turn to present my book report. The book that was presented by me was called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More. I forgot some part of the plot because I read this book a long time ago so I could not answer some of Ms. Kaur’s questions. 

            In the afternoon, it came the most tiring part which was the three-hour FOE lesson. We still have a lecture lesson today which was about the topic Light Emitting Semiconductors, Sensors and Output Devices. We did not finish this topic because the Tuesday class won’t have lesson next week. How lucky they are! I wish I would not have FOE lesson next week. The first few hours of the lesson was extremely tiring and sleepy.