english class in uni.

this is how i usually feel when i wake up for a TWO-HOUR english class on a friday MORNING (9am):













except without the excitement





i then walk alone to the faculty next door.









the greenery looks different every time i snap a pic of it. maybe cuz i hold the cameraphone differently each time. like it's senget here. dots.






...and apologize for being 3 minutes late (it's 3 minutes from the college to the faculty, and i usually start at 9am =.=).













somehow opportunities to snap pics are plentiful in english class.





ask any law student about english class, and they'll tell you it's a total waste of time.

well, not any law student. i meant... any law student that isn't in my class.

my class rocks.

firstly, we have a cool teacher: ms cecily joseph. she's like equipped with cool stories for every lesson. plus she's a good teacher. learning is no fun when you're reading through the good textbook on your own while the boring teacher blabbers on, thinking you're still listening. learning is fun when the good teacher takes you through the good textbook and makes it fun.

Textbook Question
At the burger bar, your friend says:
"I left my wallet at home."

What do you do?

(a) buy a burger for him
(b) lend him the money for a burger
(c) give him a bite of your burger

if you have a boring teacher, that question would be boring too.

i don't wake up at 7.45am every friday. i wake up at 9.03am. the moment i enter class, i hear her talking to the students like they're her long-lost friends.

ms. cecily makes me feel like paying attention even if i can't, because she's so nice i'll feel bad if i don't. few teachers can do that. my add math teacher couldn't get me to pay attention if she used toothpicks on me. with ms cecily, stories of how she got held up at the airport for bringing a can of pickles don't bore me at all.

secondly, i have a crazy friend in english class.













meet amreeta kaur dhillon





thirdly, you never know what will happen in ms. cecily's class.


























that's right.

we had a new year's party bash!














she even baked some of it for us! =D





and she knows the needs of the young generation.











ms. cecily's 'sin of the West'

i don't talk very much in english class. mostly because almost everyone else talks so much i don't have to get a word in (our class is one of the liveliest). but also because this is one class i enjoy observing. i don't speak, but i don't spectate. i participate, though it is in silence. who says you need to be heard to participate?

though i know you probably won't even know it...

ms. cecily, this post is for you.