Reflection on Thursday by Wang Haina

After so many days in VJC I feel that I really love to be a Victorian~~ The school is excellent in academic performance and full of energy. Though I am older than my buddy and her friends, I think I have a lot to learn from their classes.
In the morning we had a class meeting. It was a sweet surprise to see that my buddy is such an active figure that she and a friend from SM1 briefed the class on a volunteer project called Sunlove, and organised a brainstorming to discuss how they could help make the elderly happy. Their briefing procedure highly resembled talks held by MOE!!!
Next they had economy lecture on elasticity of demand! The teacher was very logic in her development of ideas and I understood it well.
Then, in the economy tutorial, the class sadly had to take a test. A first glimpse of the paper was enough to shock me. The first question was: Describe why is scarcity a problem for Bill Gates. I did not even know what scarcity mean in the context of economy! Does it refer to resources? Or capital? Or manpower? Or all of them? Anyway, I didn't think Bill Gates is short of any of them. I decided not to look at the paper and get trouble making sense of the questions. So I continued my chemistry book translation...
Then the physics lecture was about distance and displacement. I had listened to the similar content for at least 3 times. So I did not really pay attention to what the lecturer was saying... However, the physics tutorial that followed was great fun. The teacher, Ms Ng, spent 10 minutes to explain why 'resultant velocity' and 'the change in velocity' are different things. Before that I had never thought about this question since the two concepts could hardly appear in the same situation. (Hey, if the two velocities occur simultaneously you use the resultant velocity, and if they appear one after another then the change in velocity makes sense...) Therefore, Ms Ng was very helpful in giving me better understanding of basic concepts in physics. I enjoyed her enthusiastic teaching, and her favourite line once 3 minutes, 'Any questions? Any questions? There's no questions, we...'
Lastly we had a tutorial on projects. The beginner was a discussion on 'how might we motivate Reuben so that he can be better at sports?' Reuben is a boy in our class. As expected, the best suggestion coming from his friends is, obviously, to find him a girlfriend!
Later in class, my buddy Elizabeth and I drew little pictures on a piece of paper to show off our cuteness :). Her Chinese handwriting is amazingly beautiful!
I find the atmosphere in VJC open, friendly and playful. Their love for fun and freedom is much stronger than we in SM2. I think if I were given a chance to choose my JC in Singapore, I would definitely choose VJC. But good things are even better if they come in the form of unexpected surprise, and this is exactly the case of my JC visit!