Learning Reflections

I have learnt many things during my Language Arts lessons so far. Learning literature has been very interesting to me and has taught me certain things. I have learnt to organise my thoughts and put them down on paper in a neat manner, I feel this will help in any writing assignment as this allows the reader to have a clear idea of what I am writing about. Another thing that I feel that is useful is summary writing. Summary writing enables me to write a short paragraph which helps the reader find out about a book or passage quickly. What interested me most was the poems and the different techniques a poet could use to write a poem. Some poems are easy to understand while some need some thinking to find out what the reader is saying. I think it is fun to try to figure out what the poet is trying to say and write it in literature. These are some of the things that I found which made an impact on me. I hope to learn more interesting things during Language Arts lessons.

Youth Olympic Games

Today is the start of the very first day of the Youth Olympic Games! I am very excited about this event as it is the first Youth Olympics and it is going to be held in Singapore! I am very proud of Singapore as it is going to be hosting a very big global event! Hosting this global event will allow us, youths to experience new insights. The Youth Olympics brings many youths from around the world to participate in competitions, we are able to make new friends from different countires. I feel we are very lucky to get to host the first Youth Olympics Although most of us are not participants of the Youth Olympics, we will benefit alot from this event. I had heard about a boy, Wei Jie who is very enthusiastic about the Youth Olympics. He had been following the Olympic flame and taking photos of it as it was passed to different people since it had arrived in Singapore. The press had noticed that Wei Jie had been following the torch and there even was a newspaper article about him. I admire his anthusiasm very much, he now has the chance to carry the torch! I hope to be able to watch the different events!

National Day Holiday

The national day holiday was really nice! We had a long weekend which allowed us to take a break from the four tests last week! Yesterday which was Monday, there was the National day parade which was telecast on the television in the late afternoon. I found the celebration very exciting and fun. Every year I would always look forward to National day! I love the atmosphere during National day! I still could remember the year that I went to the National day parade rehearsal, it was the year 2008. I went to Marina Bay with my classmates to watch the rehearsal! It was really fun as I had never been to a live National day performance before. But of course all good things come to an end, I have to start preparing for the Humanities test which is this week after the long weekend!