The end of the school holidays.

As the holidays drew to a close, I found myself more and more eager to attend school. Staying at home to read and watch TV has suddenly become a bore and I no longer found any enjoyment from playing games. It has been as if, as the days went by, small parts of my soul was being pulled away from me until all that was left was an empty shell. It left me feeling brain dead; as if I knew everything in the world and there was nothing left to learn or would of no significance even if I did learn it. There was no school at the time; so what was the point of studying? 

As soon as school started again, I felt myself becoming more alert, as if a cloud has lifted from my eyes and I am able to see again. I could feel my mind beginning to work again, as if my mind was a machine that needed rejuvenating after a long period of disuse. I felt myself becoming more alert and begun questioning everything I came and saw, as I did before.

However, the beginning of school also has its bad aspects. As promised by my teacher, he has arranged for us to have a test on physics and chemistry on Wednesday. Because of my position in the "top set" for science, the expectation to do well is very high. I myself expect no less that an A. Even as I am typing now I am revising everything I have learnt in my head, all the lessons we have gone through on the topic and all the small details that I would have usually missed if not thought about.

I do hope that I do very well in this test and I am very happy that taking a break to write this blog has given me time to think about what I have just learned. I am very happy for the education that I have at the moment as I know that many people do not have the privilege to receive the education that I have now, a very obvious fact that I tend to think about when stepping outside my house, into the poverty ridden city. However, I cannot compare the standard of education here than in Singapore, which caters for a bigger number of students and a bigger range of topics. It also has the tendency to go into more depth into certain topics of more significance. I just hope that my level of education will be sufficient to go into a good school when I return to Singapore.