Congee — Leo's Second Term Second Blog

Writing this before and after hectic weeks is truly something to be excited about. It feels nice to have 2 days of unforgettable laxness before school savages into your brain and makes it as mushy as congee (or as foreigners call it, porridge). Honestly, seeing the to-do list for next week, my brain already is mushier than congee—you can even call it water. However, this is not the time to talk about the morbid demises in the future, especially before Christmas! Let's talk history!

The first Monday after writing the last blog, we were given another . . . Squardle! With 65 words and 40 minutes on the clock, we did a whopping 50 out of the given 65, which is spectacularly not very spectacular! I do not recall any of the words unfortunately, but from what the others have said, it was tough for us. I guess we just had a bad day, because the next day . . .

The next day, Tuesday, we were given another Squardle! Under 10 minutes, we unveiled 25 words, which we were able to start off our lesson with a quick vocabulary recitation. 

Unit 6 has quite the range of words, but within the range, I was given some familiar ones: "pinnacle", "premeditated" and "suppress". The first word, "pinnacle", means the highest point—both metaphorically and physically, in mountains. The second word, "premeditated", means to have been planned beforehand, usually used in criminal acts such as murder. The third one, "suppress", means to put an end to with force. These words were something I could define; however, all the other ones, I could not guess what the meaning was. Words like "officious" or "venal", which I had never heard before.

Afterwards, we had time to be able to do an activity: one that we had done before, but instead of painting an actual abstract painting where there was nothing we could use to decipher the painting, so we just had to describe it using shapes, this one was the process diagram—we had to be able to show each of the steps as we drew our own diagrams. We were split in boys and girls, and our drawings were great! I think . . .

The week after that, I fell ill. It was a really bad cough that kept me awake during the night, so I was lucky to have had an extra day of rest on Monday, but I fear the sickness was stubborn and decided to last until just yesterday (when I stopped coughing so violently). So, the Tuesday of last week, I was not able to join the class and sadly missed out on a vocabulary quiz.