It's my first day as a tutor today! Yup, a tutor! But before you get the wrong idea, I'm a tutor under the "Peer Tutoring Programme" @ Yuhua Sec.

So no, I'm not getting any money.

I volunteered to clock NYAA hours!

It was overall a really nice experience and Cheryl (Ho) made it a fun session for me with her spastic jokes and natural lameness :D It feels greaaaaat to actually be the teacher for once, and helping people really gives me a sense of accomplishment, yay!

But I was freaking out real badly when I was informed that we would be taking the Sec 2s. 'Cos Sec 2's Math syllabus is pretty much just a mess of blur in my head because I hadn't been practising much of Math during the holidays, have I? But thankfully, I was able to do the questions my tutee wasn't sure of!

Now can you imagine how embarrassing it would be if I hadn't? :\

But I think I did pretty well as a first time tutor, since I wasn't too fierce/impatient to my tutee and she seemed to understand what I was trying to tell her, although it might have been too comical with my hand actions and all that. For all you know, that could have distracted her from her attempt to understand what I was talking about.

My tutee's name is Xue Er by the way and she is awfully quiet. Perhaps she's shy, haha, and probably intimidated by the fact that she had two tutors. But she was friendly enough such that the one and a half hour session wasn't too awkward.

And with Cheryl around, there weren't long periods of strained silence too! 'Cos she's actually quite talkative la hoh.

School's been just school, sad to say. But Integrated Humanities (IH) was quite a bit of a debate and rather mind-stimulating, so to speak.

We were questioning a lot, even sprouting questions such as "What is a definition?" and "Who has the right to decide?".

Philosiphical, aren't they?

Yes, and it was an interesting lesson, though I don't get why they are so insistent on making us think exactly what the meaning is behind the term "Nation-state". I know they're trying to have us think on our feet and lessen our dependence on information spoon-fed to us by our teachers but I thought the whole point in attending school is so that there'd be teachers who would TEACH us?

And not trying to make us guess something we've never quite heard of and of which we now know doesn't exist?

Then make us write an essay on it?

Which reminds me that it's due next week and I have to hand-write it -.-

Shoot.

Cheers!
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