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Friday, February 3, 2006

I have recovered! Yay! ^^ Thank you for all your warm wishes. I appreciate them all. Thank you! ^^

On the other hand, I've got more Maths homework. I'm almost getting sick of Maths. And Maths was... er... is.. my favourite subject. So it's almost a love-hate relationship right now. I don't want to hate Maths. That'd only make my life more miserable.

Anyway... I am really bogged down with homework. And I still haven't pass up the holiday journal... I'm so dead.

But I don't want to leave all of you feeling down, so I'm going to tell you something good that happened this week. At least, I think it's supposed to be good.

Here goes:

If some of you would remember, I had to write a letter to some random organisation to ask them to donate to my school. And I did that letter at the last minute, and I was panicking... Remember? I was so sure that my teacher would skin all of us alive.

And yes, I was right. My English teacher was really disappointed with our performance. The whole class. ALL of us. She kept saying that all of us had done badly, that even the better students had disappointed her. She kept saying that throughout the whole week. All of us were so scared. We were so doomed.

And that day arrived. She had finally finished grading everyone's letters. And she was giving it back. It felt like Report Book Day. And she wanted to see us individually. A one-to-one talk about the letter. Oh, we were all so dead!

Teacher highlighted the mistakes that were commonly made. "You do not write 'I' as 'i'. It's supposed to be CAPITAL i." "You musn't write the date like this: 27/01/06. That's incomplete! You should spell out everything: 27 January 2006." And many more. During all those 'highlighting of the mistakes' part, I kept going, 'Please don't let that be in my letter. I don't think that's in my letter. Please don't let it be from my letter...'

My turn finally came. At that time, I was more worried about my Maths homework, so I wasn't exactly feeling down. When I came up to my Teacher, she told me her comments. She said that the only thing that was missing from my letter was the emotion. "You should add more emotion. There's no emotional appeal. Otherwise, it's a good letter." There were no grammar or spelling mistakes, that was good enough, I guess.

I was so relieved.

I didn't do as bad as I expected. Whew! I think I got the highest. 16 out of 20. Some of my friends failed. One of them got a 9! And she was the second highest in English last year. It was a shock! I was so glad I didn't suck at the letter. So relieved, so happy.

That's the good part. But there's more.

Since our school is really having a donation drive going on for our school's new building, the school is always looking for ways to collect more funds. And my teacher asked me for my letter back. I was puzzled. She called me out during Maths period just to ask for my letter. I went, "What? But why?"

Her reply: "I want to give it to the head of the school's management board. Your letter is good. They may want to use it."

Almost died of shock. I was "Huh?!" all the way until the end of the day. I couldn't believe it. Just the thought of having the school's principle reading my letter... it makes me feel so funny. I couldn't help it, but I kept laughing throughout the rest of the Maths period.

I just couldn't believe it.

So... Teacher said it's a good thing. I'm not so sure. The PRINCIPLE reading my letter? It was so unbelievable!

It has been two days since I've given Teacher my letter to her. I don't know what the verdict was: if they're going to use my letter or not. But whatever the decision is, I wouldn't mind. I'm just glad that I didn't fail that letter. It wouldn't look good on the record. I'd be happy with whatever decision they'll make.

So yeah, that's the 'good' news. It's up to you to decide if it's really good.

I'm off to do my homework. I'll try to visit you some time this weekend.

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