Thursday
Phew the week is almost over, i can almost smell the weekend coming.Though it means that the exams are drawing near by each passing minute. Today i ,Samuel, was a witness to a brutal slamming of pride by my teacher to my classmate.
As usual my giant teacher walked into the room and started to scold the class, sometimes over cleaniness and shit like that,however she choose to slam my friend today. If memory does not fail me, she said that other weaker students were improving and their narrative pieces could match up to those of my friend. Now as i have read with no biasness or what-so-ever my friends stories, i can boldy say that it is not of a mediocre standard and even students who are average may find it hard to imitate his style and flair for writing. Injustice. My helpless friend received a set of uninspiring commments made to him, after my teacher has done her duty to him, she moved on to another student. The other student is also above average in his English, so like a merciless dagger, she started to stab the confidence of that student again. After all that, feeling satisfied, she halted her slaughterings.
All these etched into my mind, adding to the horrible stories of unmotivating and undeserving teachers. Many teachers have made comments to students that do not have any constructive purposes,maybe the one made today was to burst the ego of better students(english) and inflate those that are weaker. I do not see the need for her to compare student among student, it just makes one feel terrible and the other arrogant. I would suggest for her to generously give compliments and take back those ugly phrases. But however bad she was today i still admire her for putting in effort in teaching our class.
Talking about teachers, i think my chemistry test has been fossilized on my chem teachers table. The worst inefficient record of returning marked assignments i experienced was 2 months, that was in secondary two. But looks like theres this new up and still existing record with my organic chemistry test paper. You may think one overdued assignment is bad enough, i actually have two still in the process of being exhumed from the ground or wherever it is. My school talks about self-dicipline and all those obvious moral values but they do not seem to apply to teachers, only students. So applying the value of persevere, i will continue to wait for the return of my test papers.
Recently there has been this haze going on, some part of me thinks that some country is trying to kill off her neighbours using this underhand tatic. Now even the PSI keeps poping out at the corner of the tv screen, which was previously non-existent. This has made me realise that i have took for granted all the past happy days where i could just inhale and not cough or spit out phalem. Last time it used to be normal to have fresh air to breathe in and enjoy outdoor activites, but for the last few weeks, that itself was considered sacred. Well its not that you cannot go and jog in the haze, its just like smoking, no one says you cannot and no one encourages it. This haze has brought about a deeper meaning to the term "smell the roses"
Chao!
it was at; 6:12 AM
