Monday, August 08, 2005

Today is Monday

It seems that I prefer to use the SAL (self-access learning) lesson to update this blog, although I began it on my first DLS class of this term. SAL class become one of the most unimportant lesson for me. I just don't want to attend it. It is different from the AWS or OCS class, which are the lesson that I don't like. SAL lesson is like a period of time that I can use it freely but I don't want to do anything. It is very strang, isn't it? Even last term when I was here I complained to my classmates that whether we SM2 students can not go to the computer lab and borrow those movie to watch. But now, I can use this room, and I even have two hours one week for those materials on that lab, the only problem is that I don't want to watch them. It does nothing with the confidence of listening and understanging the movie. I used to read or watch things that I might not fully understand, like the THREE KINGDOMS, which I read when I was in the junior high school. It doesn't matter, in my opinion. If I can not understand the book or movie, I can try it a second time, and so on, until I can it clear. But this time, I just don't want to do it. Maybe the lesson itself makes me uncomfortable. Compare with staying with classmates and doing self-access learning in the small room, I prefer to study in the library, where I can stop and have a rest or sleep at any time. Another reason is our tutor. Oh, he is a Chinese, good ,very good. It is briliant to meet a person who is from your hometown in another country, isn't it? But, I will never feel good of the situation that 21 Chinese stay in a room and they all talk in English. Besides this, the first class he gave us made me feel depress towards this lesson. Plan the study in the room. Using two hours to do just this one thing! Why can't we do that more effectively? With that two hours in the library, I can even finish my homework that day. So, if there is nothing that I want to do , why not write this thing? Blog is not so important for me, but I can say "I'm doing writing excise." when the Chinese guy comes and asks me. What a briliant idea!
Tomorrow there will be no SAL lesson. It will be aa wonderful day! We skip totally four class this week, including one AWS and one OCS. And I don't have to write these words during the SAL lesson. Actually there is another good news about the SAL lesson---we don't have to write down the much more stupid thing which is called SALOG on the Blackboard. GREAT!
We gain an extra holiday here in Singapore. Tomorrow is their national day. They create a one day public holiday. And as a result of that, I can sleep until the mid-day tomorrow. Although there will be some homework, it will be a happy day. I can surfing the internet and playing games. Now I'm keen of this RPG game "PAL3a". Of course it is an abbreviation. I will never try to translate this name in to English. Translation is a wonderful work. But most of time this work can not be done perfectly. Whenever I read a English passage that is translated from the Chinese literature, I can hardly feel the original taste of work. So do some English translating work. This game is full of the Chinese culture, just like the "Forgotten Realms" which is mainly about the western civilization. When I play this game, I can find smethings moving me, and feel how deep the Chinese culture. I like it, but not addict myself to it.
SO MUCH ALREADY......
From a simple idea I have so much words to say... just like our ARC class, always the topic goes so far away when we are talking and no one knows how we go the place we are.

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