I’ve changed my mind! I think this is actually going to be a good semester, trust me. I attended Community Service today. Ms Smith, our lecturer, says this semester we will only have six units, two classes a week – one on Tuesday and the other on Thursday – and a practical on Thursday. What’s more is that we’re not going to write on exams for it!

Here’s how it’s going to work: we are going to work in pairs and go to primary schools were we will be teaching young children how to do orals. I’m so excited though. Of course, I have to be! I mean it’s my first Community Outreach and anyways I love working with children. Most people in our society think children, only by virtue of them being children, are stupid and foolish. No one takes them serious!

Honestly, there’s a lot we can learn from children. The innocence of their thoughts (and, yes, naivety!) of their thoughts is amusing at times. So, that’s my mindset for the Community Service practical: I’m not only going to teach the kid how to do orals, but I’m also going to learn from them too. It’s only a pity I won’t be able to do it with Tee though.

But, all in all, it’s been a beautiful morning! My next class Development Communication is at 2 in the afternoon. It’s taught by an old, boring lecturer who reads everything as it is from the textbook and is convinced that she is lecturing. And, by account of this tendency of reading whole segments of a textbook, she has earned herself the name Ms Parrot. That’s what the guys in class call her. Of course, they don’t call her this in her face! It’s a class secret, I guess.

I sometimes feel sorry for her, you know! The things the students say behind her back are sometimes undermining her intellect. I overheard some girl last semester saying that Ms Parrot needs to develop her communication skills. It’s very funny that now she is the one who’s going to be teaching us about Development Communication.

I just hope she will be a bit inspiring this semester. Anyways, I’ll be spending more time studying by on my own. So, I don’t actually need her that much. If her communication skills are not developed yet, I will bunk the class. I mean, I can read the textbook on my own – I don’t need Ms Parrot to do that for me, hey!

ZZ xxx

Dish it: what funny nicknames have you given to your teachers?