Watching the photos on the screen, my experience in Nanyang Junior College today come into my mind insurgently.
25 February, the most tired but also the most fabulous day in my stay in Singapore began from an early morning.
With the moon hanging on the sky, we stepped on our way to NYJC. Wearing the fresh blue uniform of NYJC, I feel a great excitement of experiencing new in my heart so that I could not fall asleep though I was sleepy at that moment. I expect to join NYJC and expect to meet my buddy!
Waiting on the edge of my chair for one and a half hour, we were introduced and welcomed by the whole school during the flag-rising ceremony. I even made a small speech to the whole school, which made me really anxious but excited. After that, we were assigned to our buddies. Unfortunately, my buddy was just ill and could not come to school, therefore, our teacher-in-charge told me to join Peng Yaxin, Malan and Guo Dongshan.
Then, a vivid Junior college day kicked off!
Math, Economics, PW are all more practical subjects than what we study in China. The subjects are so specific that students could learn quite a lot of details about putting it into practice. However, the subject impressed me the most was PE class.
The PE teacher is quite interesting from his appereance to his speaking style. He told a lot of jokes that make students in his class feel delightful. Moreover, his white long beard was tied on on side of his head, which was really cute and cool!!! What's more, I have never expected that Singaporean student needed to run 1600 meters as warm-up activity. That was tired for us scholars but normal for citizens, which gave me the direct impression of the strong physical conditions of Singaporean. Our budies told us that they began to run 1600 meters as physical examination in Primary school and 2400 meters in Secondary school. However, ours along all life time was 800 meters.
During my first day visiting, what I observed as the most shocking part was not the educational difference but the difference between our budies and us. I found that though we are quite in the same age, Singaporean youngsters had a maturer mind. They know what they would like to do in the future, what they should do at this moment, what they should give up and what they should strive for. They have a clear blueprint for their future and they are even clear about what they have done wrongly. They tried their best to follow the rules and respect their teachers. And after class, they even found themselves an extra teacher for improving spending a large amount of money on education. Living in the quick and nervous society, they make themselves to grow quick.
I admire them so much and wish to learn from them.
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