Friday, July 29, 2011
; 9:53 PM
IHC Sports (Floorball) is over, and I'm glad to say that MR got double champs!
Spent the entire time between end of school and IHC settling the venue. Something in the school system is terribly wrong. We couldn't use the ISH today because of a parent-teacher meeting (in the evening, even) and no one told us until some Floorballers went early to practice and found people setting the tables and chairs. Since we couldn't stop them, we'd to call everyone and I'd to run around looking for people. Everything turned out fine, but that still doesn't negate the fact that this is the second this has happened to us. A few weeks ago during the A level Chinese oral exam, no one told us the ISH was being booked, and we'd to cancel training because of the lack of venue.
These two cases are actually quite in isolation, but what I can see from this, is that the school/teachers in charge probably don't have the courtesy to check the venue booking system (which we'd booked way in advance) and schedule their stuff some other time, or that despite checking, they could have 1) not made any other booking assuming they could overwrite out booking - which is kinda true that they have priority 2) Checked it, knew that they could overwrite our booking, therefore didn't bother booking 3) Knew fully well that they were going to use the place regardless, but didn't bother informing the teachers ic/captains that they wanted to use it.
If this happens again, I think the stress/pressure from such last minute changes is gonna blew out a few brain cells of mine.
This week has generally been alright.
Monday was Founder's Day, coincidentally on our school-declared holiday in lieu of good sports results) so we didn't miss any lessons due to that.
Getting the History book prize, once again resurfaced and reiterated my doubts on why I'm doing physics-chem-math-econs, and not any other subject combination which might seem to suit me more.
There was a German exchange student and Taiwanese exchange student who joined some of our lessons during the week. I think the highlight of the German guy's week would probably have been during afternoon PE, when we played captains ball in the amphi, but he stayed back to play soccer with some other guys in the class (fortunately, my class is male dominated, so he wouldn't feel out of place). His soccer is really good (he's only 15) - accurate, powerful, and honed skills. It's no wonder Singapore soccer doesn't rank significantly in the international arena, when there's so much better talent out there.
Thursday was run with Monday's timetable, so I could wake up late (a good thing too, because after trainings I'm tired enough to conk out without doing any work).
Today was.. alright, except for the minor hiccup before IHC. IHC itself was quite fun. No not (just) because MR won, but because it was a good stress-relief session. Except, I'd to play/referee nearly every alternate game so I had hardly any rest in between.
On another note, my impression of our new GP teacher has taken a slight twist. I'm in no position to evaluate/criticize any teacher's competence or ability, so I think all I can say is that I'm not in full support of the teaching methods used, and I think my learning style also isn't suited for such a teaching style.
I'll be leaving for London in a week. WR first draft is due in a week, and so is EOM. And then there's SPA.
Hm.