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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Proficiency

Whooo... The first Nucleus review class made me feel sleepy all along. The proctors said we go there at 7, but they were just allowing time for students to find their sections, and knowing that we are Filipinos, they assume almost a lot would be late.

They are quite right, except for the few who went early, sleepless and panicky. I qualified for both descriptions, and found some other few people who were just too obedient.

You'd hate to follow instructions like that.

The sections were posted at the walls near the rooms. I was on Room 303 (a combination of Mascians and other students fro other schools). There few people I were familiar with, and mostly all of the people I knew concentrated on Rooms 302 and 301 (they were all Mascians).

We went on the classroom, at first strictly following the seat numbers. When a proctor came and said that for the time being we could sit anywhere... Pause.

Then scramble, like gremlins on a storm.

I sat next to Blessie Perez, a good friend of mine during the Second Year, and talked first about the room. It was a relief we had an aircon and a ceiling fan. We also have retractable walls. Imagine 1 big room, divided into three by folding dividers. From a room the other rooms wouyld look like a mental ward. The room had very thin black curtains. It was confusing whether they designed this room to be a classroom or a mental ward.

After about 10 minutes of the former conversation we jumped into anime. And the long talk went whoooooo..... Time passed us so......... slow.

It was nearly half past 8 when a tacher came. Her name was Ms. Frisco, and she was a UP Graduate, part-time teacher and a Mascian. (Go Masci!!!) She taught us General Science, and even had the time to make everyone introduce themselves.

Ms. Frisco explains well, however she was like Ms. Lazaro, who deviates from the subject and tells already topics a mile away from the subject, however in a much kinder way.

We had our modules, a binded collection of deadly questions, which were mismatched. Double pages missing pages, inversed pages... We had all kinds of pages. Nucleus should have their modules copied in a professional copier (the proctor said that UP students filed our modules).

Our next subject was general arithmetic. Our teacher, whom said we call her Miss Rose (I feel like an elementary student again!!!) was a bit like a common teacher. Quite strict and quite good. However the module blew almost all Mascians off because we hadn't gone far, like permutation and combination. One student there was a Math whiz; he knew his factorials well.

Sh*t!

[That reads sh times t factorial.]

Although the proctor (who kept appearing like a ghost in every room) told us that we were to be dismissed at 1, we got lucky. Miss Rose had a class at Diliman, so we could get a drift early.

The lunch people were Bea, Janica, CM, Aby, Anna, pH and me.

We were hungry, and we were deciding where to eat, and Philippe suggested the place named Wow! (he saw the sign while walking) with the menu of dried... hair. Wow! is a hair salon.

We went to Jollibee, and found an evacuation site on progress. We tried jaywalking twice and went to Wendy's again.

When everyone has ordered, we got one paper-lined tray filled with fries and ketchup placed on tissue paper. Everyone had their own burger, so the fries would be shared throughout.

Lunch was fun. We pictured CM in his nerdest form. He wore Aby's glasses, got two Nucleus modules and adjusted his jaw so his tooth would show. With his braces he was oh-so-nerdy. Bea went rambling about her former classmate, Frederico (don't know the spelling), who was in PBB. Bea said that Frederico teased her for a year when she was still at CSA, but since he was an Agustinian, she still had the flair for moral support.

After a good lunch, Janica went back to Nucleus for her diagnostic exam. We rode the LRT and CM went down on Pedro Gil Station because he had something to buy. The rest went to Badminton City and I checked my ATM account at SM.

I watched the four of them play (Niño didn't came, so they were exact for a doubles play) for about 20 minutes. I also left, because I was sleepy and I was going to watch Sweet Dreams at 4.

Whooo.. I'm tired. Ciao~

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