Since the past week, I am feeling that I am in college. I already experienced having role playing activities, laborious home works and long exam. And if you are thinking that I hate it, you are wrong. I don't really love it but I am happy doing those things. This is because I am feeling bored here. I don't watch television. Some of the websites I always visit are blocked by the Dilnet. I am not in the mood of reading fiction novels during school months. I rarely go to the mall or the like. So having school works gives me the sense of being occupied.
One of the activities I want to share was our role play in French. We did not have classes two weeks ago so our teacher decided to give that activity to us. Being in a group where your group mates were very confident, was very stressful. I can do an impromptu dialogue in English but French is a different story. I have a lot of worries. I might say a wrong word. I might mispronounce words. I might forget the flow of the story. I was very nervous. And thanks to one of my group mates, we went first. I did everything according to the flow. We were not the best but at least it turned out good. Then I realized that what we did was brave since almost all other groups were bringing their scripts. At the end of the day, I can say that I was proud of what we did.
Example of a meticulous home work? It was maybe our outlining home work in English. Even if it was to be passed two days after, I already started it early. My reasons were we had a dorm assembly and I was sure that it will be long and the fact that it was an outlining activity. Outlining is a very challenging work for it needs the person who will outline to understand the text and be very particular with the topics. So, I started working on it. On the first attempt, it was alright. But when I read it again, I became confused. There were many ideas that seemed to have an importance. I felt that when I add subtopics I will be overwriting. But when I look at it, it seemed to be lacking. What I did was improve my topics by choosing what I thought was important.
The highlight of my week was my first long exam in Math. I studied math for the whole week because I was afraid of the comments of the old students that it is very difficult. I tried to answer all of the hand-outs given to us. Of course, I had not finished it since I also had other priorities in other subjects. The problems in the hand-outs were fine except for some. But when I answered the sample exams, I became worried. Almost all of the questions, for me, were unanswerable. That also why I felt troubled. On the other hand, as a Christian, I believed that God will always guide me because I had also done my part. And when we took our exam, thankfully, it was an average type of exam.
I was happy to have a busy schedule last week. It may sound very unusual but it is true. I would rather be busy than be sleeping and surfing the internet. I know that there will come a time that I just want to rest and I am looking forward to it.
