(You Drive Me) Crazy — Leo's Fourth Second-Term Blog!

 Wheew, with a fortnight of dreamless nights complimented by a freckle of melatonin depravity (or a whole abscess), it's hooray to another day of surviving school! With only a day of rest and a head full of science, I am writing this blog with high hopes that the next few weeks are going to be less ... hectic, to put it simply. To feed the curious mind, let's recap!

January 7 was the first day we came back, and the students were rambling for their second period on a Monday morning; nothing like a good game of ... nothing! No elective teachers during the period, and both Filipino and AEP students were stoked alike. With a short-lived celebration, we all realized we had work to do ... on the first day of school after the New Years. Me, I thought of it as some warm-up for the next few mundane lessons. I got on with both the essays, writing to my heart's joy from a well-rested break, which Ms. Disa was still having in the middle of Great Britain.

One essay about concrete and cement production, which I'm pretty sure I rewrote a good 20 times, and another essay about bricks. I felt like I did an adequate job on both, even if one was a little short. If that wasn't such a great warm-up to start off a day with mathematics right after, I wouldn't know what else is.

January 8 was the next day we came back, and the students were rambling for their first period on a Tuesday morning; nothing like a good game of ... oh dear, it's a substitute! I'm sure the walk upstairs was grueling for most students, especially since we had such a daunting teacher to help us do a wordsearch. Regardless, it was a nice two periods of doing a wordsearch with the new vocabulary unit (unit 9). On top of that, I knew a lot of the words already; "capricious", "emaciated", "exult" and a few of the others. So, I did write down my own version of the definitions until I thought it would be better to just write it from the internet verbatim—didn't want to get any wrong answers because of memory failure, especially when lacking sleep.

When we began classes with Ms. Disa a week later, we commenced a pleasant day with an, of course, pleasant essay. Although I had been a bit dead after staying up all week for the science congress, I still tried my best to understand everything that was going on in class, and it was all rather words with meaning but no brain. I was completely fried. Anyway, I managed to shove some things into my liquified brain and learnt a lesson about staying up far too late for a project ... which I continued to do for the rest of the week (it's the science congress!)

For the lesson the day after, we finally got to have a good game of "Squardle". It was a short list of long words, but a lot of vowels which simplified most of the answers we needed. We got through with Janek's craze and went through with the ~20 words. Then, we did our vocabulary quiz which was just the usual shocking wheel-of-fate, answer-or-die type of situation.

And then I proceeded to whine at 4AM about the STEM congress for the next few days. What a wonderful week!