Personal Recount - Shameful thing you did,

It was a regular day in school with nothing special happening, Jim and his friends were hanging out near the canteen beside the washroom. Jim was a teacher’s pet, he did everything the teacher told him to, he would not forget to do any of his homework and he always listened to them. However, that day, Jim was feeling low and was not himself. He forgot to bring his homework and was to stay back after school.

Jim was not the only one who had to stay back, one of his friends had to stay back too. And that friend was me. I was reluctant to go but Jim dragged me along. He said it was compulsory to go, I tried to sneak in away into the washroom to hide but Jim found me. He pushed me out of the cubicle I was hiding in, but accidentally, the door slammed shut right after I was pushed out and Jim was stuck in the cubicle.

I tried to get the door open but it was futile, the door would not budge. I asked some of my friends to help, but by the time I went to look for help, everyone had already gone home. I finally managed to get Jim out but we were late for out meeting with our teacher. We hurried over to our teacher’s room and found her punishing the other student as we were late.

We stood and the door, dumbfounded. I bit my lower lip and forced myself to go in ahead of Jim. I stood in front of our teacher and finally blurted out, “ Sorry we were late, Jim was stuck in a washroom cubicle and the door would not open…” The teacher did not seem to believe our story and accused us of using excuses. I shook my head in denial.

After half an hour of reasoning with the teacher, she finally believed our story, I was so happy the moment I saw the time and realized we had wasted enough time reasoning that the punishment of going to be over soon. However, my happiness started to seep away when the teacher read out a list of names that had to stay back the next day for another day of punishment. And as predicted, Jim and my name were called. That was the last time I used the washroom cubicle again.

1. Personal Aspirations & Target Setting for 2010

My targets for 2010 is to ACE everything and pass Chinese. This is because I get As and Bs on all subjects except Chinese so this year I want to make a difference.

My targets are not really that high just that I do not believe in setting high targets and crying when I do not get them as it is a waste of time. Targets are meant to boost your moral but if you set too high expectations for yourself, you end up losing your moral instead.

The only problem pulling me back is that my Chinese Language is very weak, therefore my grades get pulled down just like my PSLE results. Chinese is very hard for me to understand, my parent say its due to the lack in foundation that I have.

This is due to my Chinese teachers in kindergarten and primary school did not teach me very well.

I hope I will be able to buck up and pull back my Chinese to win back my grades.