Oh, Happy Days are here once more!!

Wheee!I'm so happy!!! we don't have classes today but we're going back to school tomorrow till Friday then it's (cue: hum an exciting movie theme) SUMMER VACATION! (um,you can stop hummng now...)

Right now, I feel a suddenmixtre of emotions. Happy because freedom is just a few days away. Sad because I won't be able to see a few specia people till June comes. Frustrated and haggard because we are stillin clearance week. Angry because a department ead announced that yesterday was a half day and also the last day of clearanceso we were all shocked, annoyed, hateful and looked like a buch of idiots running up and down the stairs till we tripped and rolled to the ground floor.Talk about hard labor. Ah, the things we do for freedom.

Last Wednesday was a bombardment of quotes. I wrote down a few but I misplaced the darn paper. "You must reap what you have sown."I'll add the others once I find that paper.

HALLELUJAH!!!

Yesterday was the last of exams. YES!

Natakot ako sa exam sa IA. Seryoso ako! All those numbers... shudder... ah, well, at least natapos at nabuhay ako. Masaya naman ako dahil hindi masyado madali, hindi masyado mahirap. Di katulad ng dati. Sa sobrang hirap, gusto ko nang kunin yung utak ko at pigain yung dugo dahil sa kaauntog ko ng ulo ko sa desk ko. Hindi ko alam kung ilalagay ko sa memorable o sa discouraging moments... hmmm..

Hay, naku...

March nanaman. Alam naman nating lahat ang ibig sabihin nun, right? YAHOOO!!! Cramming, requirements, bonding, iyakan, usapan tungkol sa bakasyon, botohan para sa SSG.... Ang saya, no? Ngunit before the rainbow, there must always be rain. Before happiness comes sacrifice. Kaya nga inembento and mga exam, eh. Haayyy, buhay. Hanggang asa muna tayo, people. Kelan kaya tayo papakantahin ng "Halelujah"?

So baket ba ginawa ang mga exam?
1. To know how much we learned throughout the year (IF we learned anything)
2. Upang iwagaywag ang bandera ng ating mga paaralan (?)
3. To remind us that after vacation, there would still be school.

Ngayon ay ang araw ng NAT (National Achievement Test). Pinalipas ko ang buong gabi kagabi sa pagreview sa Math, kaya ayan, madali nga pero yung mga subject na kailangan ko ipasa para maka-third year ako, baga ibagsak ko. Natutuwa ako dahil sa asignaturang ito ako mayroong pinakakonting hula. 8! Record para sa akin iyon!

Exams, exams...

Talk about another discouraging moment...

Ah, yes... the ending is near.... no more school, no more homework, no more quizzes.... Just pure RELAXATION. But before that, there's the MNAT, FAT, and NAT. All we do is review, pop our brains and squeeze the juices out. For a more gory moment, how about your test paper being covered with blood because you kept hitting your head on the darn table because you don't know what the hell is the answer? You know what they say, "Isa lang naman ang madali at isa lang naman ang mahirp sa lahat ng exams, eh. Mahirap hulaan, madaling ibagsak." Too many times have I proven this to be true. I mean, how many times have you looked at a test paper with this kind of expression:

Ehem.... Sorry about that. Bangag pa kasi ako, eh. Anyway, I almost had a heart attack when I learned that we were having IA in the NAT. I felt sad, miserable, unhappy...you name it. If it was bad, then I felt it. The reviewer given to us was like in first year, hindi naman sa nagmamayabang ako. I guess, I got too nervous about the exam that everything I reviewed got flushed in the toilet or slipped out of my head. Hell, the procters were strict! I thought it was the end of the world! Unfortunately, fate was not so kind this time. Instead of giving me a quick death by being run over by a truck on my way to school (while I was too busy studying to pay attention to where I was walking) it gave a slow, incredibly painful torture that apparantly fried my brain and caused me to get hyper for two days. The worst part is that it was only the Mock exam!!!

Comments

On the Class

1. Really generous
2. Not so cooperative at times
3. Noisy but not too much

On Our Teacher

1. A great source of quotable quotes.
2. Makes us understand the lesson.
3. Gives us exercises that sharpen our minds and/or make us "get" the lesson

Expectations on the Subject

1. For me to understand Algebra.
2. To prove to me that any form of Math can be fun.
3. To show me that numbers are interesting.

That's pretty much it....

"AHA!" or "I actually understood the lesson!"

No offense but Algebra is not one of my faves. I really don't like math too much... Too many numbers and formulas.... But that is why we study it, right? Here is a list of some of the lessons which gave me internal bleeding, squeezed the juices out of my brain and had me bop myself on the head or ask myself "What the hell have I been doin these past few years? Have I not learned a thing?" (figuratively speaking, of course)

1. Kinds of Linear Systems (consistent and dependent, consistent and independent, and inconsistent)
2. Solving Systems of Equations
3. Solving Complex Fractions

Some topics I forgot or did not understand very well:

• Quadratic Formula.

Memorable Moments in this subject

1. The day I knew I passed. Who would want to fail, anyway?
2. When I got a high grade in a quiz. I remember this quiz quite well, it was graphing, I'm sure and I got a perfect score! Hindi naman sa nagmamayabang ako or anything, I'm just happy and proud because that was the first (and last) quiz in IA where I got a score that high.
3. The first time I saw Ms. Gallardo smile in class. I'm not sure if this would actually count as memorable, but the reason behind it would remain a secret between me, myself and I.
4. When I finally understood the lesson. After days of staring into the Math Time like waiting for it to melt and nearly having a stroke while practicing solving problems, I managed to understand the lesson. After that, I learned two new lessons-how to solve those equations and not to scream and jump for joy in public.

Discouraging Moments in this subject

1. The day I stood up. I didn't quite get the lesson for that day. What was the lesson? To be honest, I can't really remember. Maybe because I didn't want to remember that hateful day but that incident also served as a lesson for me-always review and try to understand the lesson.
2. When I could not understand the lessons. Let's face it. Intermediate Algebra is most probably one of the hardest subject around. All those numbers and letters would make your head turn, most especially if you don't know what our teacher is talking about.
3. During the checking of test papers and quizzes. Self-explanatory.
4. Card giving. Waiting for your parents in the UCB or UTP, making excuses and trying hard to calm yourself down, telling yourself that you did well this grading period but at the same time feeling that your best was not enough....