School’s back, and it came with a few changes. New classes, new grade, new desk-mates, and new schedule. The government made a few changes about school schedules this year, which is that students anywhere from grade school to high school only go to school from Monday until Friday, so since this week, Saturday isn’t a weekday for students in my area, in fact, the school strictly said that even extracurricular activities won’t even be allowed on Saturdays. They wanted grade schoolers, middle schoolers, and even high schoolers to be more “close” to their families, meanwhile their parents still have Saturday work schedule, so this new “schedule” isn’t going to cut it, in my opinion. For extracurricular activities, it’s only allowed on Friday after school because the school bell rang at 12 PM on Fridays. And because Saturday isn’t a school day anymore, the rest of the week added more classes in a day, so from Monday until Thursday students finished school at 4 PM.
The 5 optional classes I took this year is advanced mathematics, physics, arts, economics, and computer science. While there’s 8 mandatory classes such as mathematics, English, language, history, civics, music, religion, and physical education.
The journey begins in July 14th. I walked into this unfamiliar classroom full of people I don’t know, I quickly decided on a desk to put my backpack in, and rushed outside to line up for the weekly Monday ceremony. The ceremony ended before I realized and we started our first class immediately. The first class was computer science, but we haven’t started studying yet, instead we just introduced ourselves and our homeroom teacher visited our class and quickly decided on a class president, vice president, secretary, vice secretary, and treasurer. There’s no voting system in deciding for those stuff, instead, our homeroom teacher just point her index finger on people she thought she could rely on to become each position.
The neglected feeling continued the next day when we haven't got any announcement on when our textbooks would be given, so the second day of school is no different from the first because all we did was sit in class, wait for a teacher and the teacher usually asked us to individually introduce ourselves because we can't study with no textbooks. It's not a hobby of of mine to introduce myself to anyone or anything related to talking in front of the class, really, because I had a quiet voice so unless I shout all my voice out people can't hear me, basically when I talk normally people thought I'm whispering. That's why I'm not a fan of presentations and public speaking, because if I talk like I did with people normally in presentations, people can't hear me, so when I do presentations I focus all my energy towards making my voice sounded louder and I ended up not focusing on what I said. If there's a medication for this, please let me know, guys.
In my experience, I think Wednesday is when it hits rock bottom. The start is great, there's a seminar in the school hall so I'm not in class until 12 PM, and after that is just break. But the last 2 periods of class is intense, our civics teacher is the nightmare I wanted to avoid, she come in and expect us to state random articles of law. And I got punished because I stuttered, even though I knew the answer. In summary, Wednesday will be the day I dread the most every day.
Thursday went better than I expected, because usually since Thursday is my the day I was born in I get super bad luck on that day, but I guess it switched to Wednesday now. The first subject is Physical education, the teacher did mention that there will be a lot of presentations from this point on so I'm pretty upset with that, but it's physical education, how hard could it be? And presentations are done with groups so I'm relieved. The next subject is history, and most of the kids in my class reunited with our previous teacher, because I think our history teacher teaches a lot of class. And the whole 2 periods is just us introducing ourselves and explaining a little bit about what we will be learning about for next week and so on. The next class is informatics, and it's good because we studied and take notes for a while, and our teacher gave us an exercises too. And lastly, mathematics. I took two mathematics class, one is the mandatory one and one is advanced, the one on Thursday is the mandatory mathematics, and we we're doing the normal studying, teacher writes on the whiteboard, we copied, then she gave us an exercise that's a complete 180 than what she had explained, normal math class.
And last day of the week, since we don't have school on Saturdays anymore, we had music, economics, and english. It's pretty self-explanatory, the only subject that's pretty hard is economics but I wouldn't say it's as stressing as physics or math. The only thing standing out in Friday is extracurricular clubs. So, now students could only do club activities on Friday from 3 to 5 PM, the field will be divided to fit every extracurricular, and so will classrooms for academic clubs that uses them. So, from this point on, students can't have more than 1 extracurricular club, which is unfair. But over every other clubs, I chose scouts.
The end. That, in summarized paragraphs, is all I’ve been experiencing for the past week for the intense and worryful first week of school. And I’m a bit disappointed for this year’s summer break because it ended earlier than I expected, and I certainly didn’t get to do most of the stuff I’ve planned for the summer but I have to leave it behind because school’s already starting again. And quick announcement, an apprentice of mine will be writing here from now on so this isn’t my personal blog anymore, rather it will be about a lot of other things too. So, see you guys in next week’s article for the continuation of my Guerilla Street Art project.
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