One Hundred!!!

What a milestone I have reached! One hundred journal blogs! This is by far my longest journal blog I have ever made in my entire life. Every blog post means an English class we have been in. This may seem insignificant to others, but this is a really profound blog for me to write my journals. In our journals, we would write about the things we were going to discuss in class later on or in the week. For every journal post, I would not only answer the questions on the journal prompt page, but also put in few sentences with my own thoughts and ideas towards the topic of the journal. When I take a look at my old journals, I found some of my journals pretty funny. Sometimes, we would write about a story that we would be reading in the next two weeks and write about the impressions that we have on those stories by just reading the title. Now that we have read all the stories, when we take a look back at those journals, I would see the big difference between what I predicted what the story might be and what really happened in the story.

Final Exam

I felt glad about this upcoming exam. This is finally my last test for our English test. Just imagine not having an exam in the next two months. How good is that! For this final exam, I think the most unfamiliar part of the test for me is the 102 minutes because we haven’t really taken a test on this story before in the past. It is really hot and stuffy in the room right now and I really hope that we could move to another room when we take a test later, which is five minutes away. I think I am most confident on the part about the typhoid fever because it is one of the few stories that I have really read with great details ever since the start of the year. When Mr. McCool says that this would be an easy test, I would clearly see the evil laugh coming out of his mouth, even there isn’t really one of it. I would never believe what a teacher says when he or she says how easy something is going to be, especially right before an exam, because nine chance out of ten is that the teacher is lying.

Group Work

I think group working can be a great learning experience for us as students. I like group projects, but not all the time. Sometimes, you will get assigned to bad partners where they would just slack off and expect you to do the work. I just hate those kinds of people and I don’t think anyone would like them as well. Working by yourself can be really convenient where I don’t have to meet my partner in order to do the project together. The letter grade that each person gets in a group project is the same, but the dilemma is that not everyone did the same amount of work, so I don’t think that everyone should deserve the same grade. The good thing about group project is that you could work with various kinds of people in your class: friends that you know very well, or classmates you have never talked to before. For teachers, it is pretty easy for them to mark these kinds of group projects. Instead of marking like thirty projects, they could mark five instead. I’m looking forward and expecting a lot to see these kind of group projects in college since classes in college are huge.

Stranger Together

Kindness aren’t really truly kindness sometimes. One may be helping another just for his or her own advantage. Well, if you are a stranger to that person, then I guess that it is fairly unlikely for that person to take advantage of it if you want to help out. When a stranger is helping another person, nine out of ten times the stranger did it due to his or her heart. It is really that his or her kindness that made it possible for he or she to save that stranger. If I was in the situation, I don’t think I would really have that kindness to save someone’s life and even worse yet, risk my own life. If there is an award for doing thing like that, it is another story, but if not, then I guess I won’t even bother to think about it, even if the person is about to die. I will use the same example as the one I used last time: the swimming incident when I was in second grade. The teacher did eventually save us and I think that really came out of his kindness. Maybe it is probably his responsibility for our safety, but I still think that he was kind enough to save a stranger like me.