Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Forced to make a sacrifice

My exams were getting closer day by day and from the moment I was introduced to a computer game by one of my friends, my grades started to decline.
My friends at school were discussing with me about a computer game that I was playing with them when my teacher, Mr lim, called me up to the front. I was astonished when Mr lim asked me to come up to the front as I never did anything that could have caught his attention. " I called your parents about your declining grades and they have told me that you have been recently addicted to a computer game." At that time, I felt betrayed by my parents for telling Mr lim about the computer game. " Why do they keep on saying that I am addicted to this computer game? I only played it for around 3 hours a day." I thought to myself. " Mr lim, I do not think that this computer game is affecting my grades as I still do study." I replied to Mr lim. " Even though you still do study for your tests, I still think that you are still affected by this computer game, at least give it a thought to stop playing computer games for awhile until your exams." encouraged Mr lim. I listened to his advice for a moment and gave it a thought, but decided that I was not affected by this computer game and would not be affected by it and ignored the advice.
The next day, I was given a mock exam by Mr lim to prepare for the exams. "This would show them that I have studied for my test." I thought confidently to myself. I looked at the paper and laughed, it was easy! I started to write down the answers in the mock exam, feeling proud. However, not even one quarter through my mock paper, I started to drift off in the fantasies of my computer game and started to ignore the things that were in front off me. I did not realise that time was ticking away and my mock exam was still going on. " Wow...I really could try that when I get home...or maybe this..." I was locked up in my imagination when I felt a pat on my shoulder. Awaking from my dream, I looked up and realised that it was Mr lim frowning, he pointed towards the wall clock. I looked at the wall clock and almost jumped out of my chair. Only ten minutes left! I scribbled through my paper as quickly as I could and finished right on time. I was disappointed and embarrassed in myself for getting distracted by a computer game.
Mr lim heaved a sigh as he took my mock paper. "Meet me at my cubicle after school." he said.
After school, I went to Mr lim's cubicle. He took out my mock paper and showed it to me, he had already marked finish it." I realised that you were daydreaming for a long time during the mock exam, were you daydreaming about the computer game that you are addicted to? You know that you should have stop playing that game a long time ago and concentrate on your exams?" Mr lim reprimanded. After Mr lim finished reprimanded me, I gave a serious thought to my addiction and decided that I would sacrifice that computer game for good grades and not letting Mr lim down for his concern.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Ideal School

  My ideal school should have teachers who understand their students well and are unbiased towards their students. My ideal school would also have to have many activities that they can organize for us students and finally also have teachers who give notes containing the summary of the each lesson.

My ideal school should have teachers who understand their students well and are unbiased towards them. The teachers would have to be able to understand the difficulties or problems that their students are facing so that the teachers would be able to be flexible with the needs of the student and help him with his studies. The teacher would also have to give equal treatment to their students so that their students would not develop any misunderstandings or unnecessary thinking towards that teacher and be focused in their learning.