Today, at school. In the morning we had to listen to 5 different people talk about their careers. We had, in the order of them speaking, a psychiatrist, a Harvard Law School lawyer, some woman that worked for a spa company or something, a Hong Kong police officer and last but not least, a woman working for the YMCA, who is also the wife of one of the teachers in High School. They talked about their careers, what you need to work in the type of job they work in and general stuff like that. Of course, there were some ‘immature’ students who asked how much they were getting paid. I mean yeah, they’re probably curious, but it’s just not a nice thing to ask and a hard thing to answer, since it all has to do with how hard you work and how much effort you put into your work, and if you really want to know, go to google and find out.
After these speeches, we did House activities. First we had a science investigation where we had to seperate different matter from a mixture of things without using your bare hands. We had to seperate sand, salt, marbles, pieces of styrofoam, nails and pebbles. My group came in second, because we had too much water when we were evaporating the water using the bunsen burner. I hope people reading this know what I am talking about.
The second house activity was building a free-standing structure using only balloons and tape. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Well, each group was divided into 3 mini groups. One group could only talk but was not allowed to touch the materials, another group could only touch the materials but they couldn’t build or talk. And the third group had to be blindfolded and they had to actually build the structure. I was a talker and instructed the people building on how to do it. It was quite confusing actually, for the people building but we managed to win. The other groups cheated and everyone in the group was touching the materials and building. Our group, humbly, was the fairest.
The third and last activity was taking a general knowledge test. My group, with thanks to me and a couple of other people, blew the other groups out of the water. The quiz was based on China and Hong Kong facts, sports facts and the school’s facts. Our group, out of a total of 40 points got 35 and won. We were the only group (with great thanks to me) to know that Osama bin Laden’s country of origin was Saudi Arabia and not Afghanistan. We also knew that our Math and French teacher was from Tunisia and not France, that the MTR stood for Mass Transit Railway and not Motor Train Railway as said by another group (they though they were right too!)
Anyway, after activities, we were able to have a sneak peek at our report cards, I am getting an Honor Role, though my GPA is not so amazing, it is over 3.0 though. Then we went down to the hall and sang the school song while practicing what Wednesday’s Award Ceremony would be like.
Tomorrow is the so-called “Activities Day” (my school loves the word ‘activities’) and I am going to watch a movie. The thing is, the movie is Batman Begins. I’ll have to live through that one.
Man, I am tired of typing, my posts are like essays and not like normal blog posts. Sorry guys, I just really have to clear my mind and this is how I do it, but it tires my hands on these crappy school keyboards and its bad ergonomics. I am gonna get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome soon…
