Saturday, February 9, 2008,
Dear Mrs. Yeo,
How have you been? It has been awhile since we last met. Do you still remember Class 3E6 from last year? I was a student from that class, and you taught us English for a few months.
It has been over a year now, and I was wondering whether you would like to know how the infamous ‘3E6’ have been coping and the significant events that had happened in our school. Unfortunately, about one third of the members in 3E6 could not be promoted to Secondary Four Express (4E). They were either retained or laterally transferred to Secondary Four Normal Academic (4NA). I have to say that last year, I, myself was struggling with my studies, but eventually, I pulled through. Anyway, we should not be disheartened as majority of us are in 4E now. It would be a much more stressful and challenging year, compared to the other 3 years of my secondary school life, due to the major ‘O’ levels examinations. Now, most of my subject teachers are the Head of Department (HODs) of the school. It’s quite frightening! Even though they are the HODs, rumored to be strict, their teachings are still top notch and I have not encountered much scolding yet.
Recently, we had Shanghai students from the Shanghai-Singapore Student Exchange programme in our school. They had lessons with us for about 2 weeks. On the last day, some of them even performed on stage for us! It was like our Kent Ridge Talent Quest, especially the guy who sang enthusiastically and the girl who played the violin emotionally. We also did our Community Involvement Project (CIP) quite early this year. This year’s CIP, was not like the other two years that we spent cleaning up public parks, or the previous year that we had our entrepreneurship fair. This year, our CIP project was to visit some old folks, interact and befriend them. It was quite difficult at first, as they did not want us to help them to clean their house, or put up decorations for Chinese New Year and were trying to shoo us away. With our teacher’s help, they opened up to us, and even though we were supposed to talk to them, in the end, it was our teacher who interacted with them instead, while I translated Chinese to English, for the benefit of my Indian and Malay friends. To me, this year’s CIP was something similar to a social worker’s job, helping others, which I found to be quite meaningful.
From this year’s CIP, I have realized the importance of having friends and family, and you should cherish every moment with them.Labels: Letter To Mrs Yeo
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