Dear Mrs. Yeo,
It has been a long time since we last saw you and hope that you are recovering from your illness. Most of our class have passed through and are now in 4E6. So far, our year has been pretty eventful. We have had to push ourselves harder as the teachers are trying to complete the syllabus as fast as possible. Our new chemistry teacher is Mrs. Tan May Teng. Her lessons are fun even though she is very demanding. We have to understand everything as she tries to go as fast as possible while not compromising our understanding of the topic. We can’t blame her as she has a lot of ground to cover including the revision. However, I think that we have been making much better progress than last time.
We had a fresh start this year welcoming the new secondary ones. Soon after, all the different CCAs had their hands full for the CCA trial. This year’s batch was huge and coordinating them was a very hectic job. On top of that, we had to persuade them to join our CCAs. This year, we had a huge turnout with about forty-something people applying for the interview for Media Club. On the whole, I thought that the program was a success.
As we were graduating this year, our school decided to bring us for the ‘Open House’ at Singapore Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. We were allowed to explore the entire campus and check-out the different courses available. We compared the number of admissions allowed, the subjects required and the cut-off points for the various courses of each polytechnic. We also had a lot of fun partly due to the fact that we were given gift hampers at both polytechnics.
I wonder if you remember our guests last year Mrs. Yeo? Do you remember the Japanese students? Well, this year, we had visitors from Shanghai. They came as part of an exchange program. During the Christmas holidays, Charles, Wen Hao and Benjamin and some other students from Kent Ridge, along with a handful of teachers went to Shanghai. There, they had a glimpse of life as a teenager in Shanghai. They even stayed in their assigned buddy’s house! Although I was absent on the day they came, we still had a blast. Their English wasn’t very good, so their buddies had to translate a lot of the stuff for them. To say the truth, I was pretty impressed with how Charles overcame the situation, because it was no secret that his Chinese wasn’t as good as Wei Siong’s.
We later found out to our cost that they were no novices when it came to playing basketball. However, we had ’NBA worthy’ John Cheng and Roy Chua on our side, so we weren’t that shaken. I shall keep your curiosity piqued by telling you that Benjamin’s buddy was seen doing ‘something’ during Physics. I think it won’t be that hard to rack your old wizened brain to figure out what that ‘something’ was. Ha ha ha ha he he!! Well, from all that I’ve said, you should have gathered by now that life is going great for us and I sure hope that it is going well for you too! We all hope to see you sometime soon!
Yours Truly,
Arun
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I don't think it's wise to call Mrs Yeo's brain "wizened"...you may get what you deserve.
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