the qtn was to relate a person that you hold in high regard. what have she done to make u so touched?
She is someone that I am very close to. I remember I hated her from the start. She marked me late when I was only late by one minute. The other people would not mark me late as they are more lenient. I really hated her for that time as that was the only time I was late for school. I went around telling everybody to rebel against her as they also think that she nags a lot, unreasonable, and had very high standards. During the first lesson, she guided us through very clearly and when my group presents, she asked a lot of questions and although I can answer them, she gave me a really hard time. When the grades came out, I got an “A”. I was very happy but I still don’t like her. She likes to drag her lessons by asking about every single sentence in our slides and we often end class very late. Everybody complained about that, the whole class thus dislike her. There was one of my group member; he thinks that his opinion is the best and do not like to listen to others’. This person that I hate at first gave him a “C”. He was very angry and then he confronted her. She explained to him that “if you listen to others’ views like what I did, I would be giving you an “A” instead of a “C”. From that time onwards, he said he would play the Looney tunes song whenever she comes in; as her surname is Toon. Are you wondering why I change my stereotype and views of her after some time? I will tell you the answer now! She ended class late because she clarifies every sentence in our slides. But at the same time, she “injected” knowledge into our minds subconsciously! I have a lot more knowledge now and that made me cleverer. She have high standard of us because she knows we are a strong class and she made us even stronger! She is one person that will actually listen to what we have to say; she is also not biased and grades us according to our performance. I remembered when there was a time whereby she listened to me and my two friends regarding our situation with our classmates. We told her that they purposely ask a lot of questions and made us cannot answer them. She said that she noticed that and would try to help us. She had helped us a lot by telling the class not to have personal attacks on each other. When it was meeting three, someone made personal attacks and he got an “F” straight away. We were very happy as she kept her words and helped us to learn better in the class. From this incident, I found out that she is a good listener. She really made our learning in school filled with more fun and I enjoy coming to school everyday because of her; especially on Wednesday when it was my culture module. Because I had some misunderstandings with the previous class, I did not speak up as much as per normal. She notices that I am always pro active in class and suddenly became so quiet. She asked me in the comments she gave me because I told her my situation in my reflection journal. She said: “Are you going to waste your grades away because of this?” she also said she wants to hear more from me in class. I took her words and try to improve myself. She encourages me a lot and asks me not to give up. That really motivated me a lot. She also helped me to improve my reflection journal and she is the only person who initiated the idea of teaching me. All because of her, I can write such quality reflection journal now. She also told me on how to improve my English and I heeded her word to read more newspaper. I know a lot more than I do last time! She taught us some tips on how to do well for Understanding tests. She also wrote long comments on which area specifically we can improve on. I want to thank her because I have scored very well for her module. There was also one time when my friend asked me to send her my presentation because she really do not know how to do. I was busy myself so I just sent her mine and I got caught. They shared good presentations around and mine was one of them. She spoke to me about that; she asked me to tell her the truth whether this is the first time I sent her my presentation. I did not want to lie to her and I told her this was not the first time. The next day, she gave me an “F” instead of the “A” I previously got. She explained to me that I should not blame my friend as I was at fault too. I think she knows that I am an ambitious person that cannot accept an “F” in my grades. She emailed me and gave me her hand phone number and asked me to call her. She explained to me that she would give me a “D” but I told her honestly this was not the first time. She eventually gave me an “F”. She said it was a painful choice to make but by giving me this grade would remind me for life not to do this again. She said she spoke up for me as the module chair said I may have copied my presentation from other people too. She helped me by saying she believe in us as we are the first block to have culture that day; so we cannot copy. She also said my presentation was very well done and showed it to her best friend because she was so proud of us. There was a class chalet, and she asked me whether I am going. I said I would be overseas and she said she is disappointed because she cannot see me. Then she continued to console me about the previous matter. I also listened to her and forgave my friend. If not for her, I would have lost a friend; the person whom I send my work to. I would always remember this incident and I gave her my promise not to do it again. That was the last day of school; my classmates asked her to come up to eat and take pictures. She chose her position and stood beside me and gave me a gentle pat. From that, I can feel that she is telling me “she had no choice” but to downgrade me. I was never angry at her because I know she is simply doing her job; it was for my own good. Not only the gentle pat, she also put her hands on my shoulders and took pictures with me. I can show you the pictures next time! (If you are interested!) From here, I can see that she cares a lot about me. Nobody had done that to me, she is the first person that made me feel I am present in this world. After that, the guy who hated her found out that she is very cute (she doesn’t know that there’s webcam in our laptop and asked us where the camera is when we took pictures!) and started to like her a lot. I am sure the whole class love her a lot! After we moved into this new semester, she still did not forget us and send me a message on communicator and asked me how my new class was. I told her I cannot adapt to a environment where my classmates have low standards. She asked me to adapt to it, but not be like them! It was useful to me. She asked me to work hard and I am sure I can do that. And she asked me out for lunch and we talked and laughed. I remember she said she wants to see me perform for Acappella. It really touched my heart because she is the first person that mentioned she wants to see me perform; not even my family said that. My friend from another class came and we chatted about menstrual stuffs. My friend had irregular periods and she advised her a lot even she did not really know her. She is really caring, even my friend said I was very fortunate to have her. She knows my interests too. There was one lesson which she asks us who wants to migrate. The whole class knows I loved Korea and they mentioned my name immediately. She asked me why and I just said I love everything there. One of my classmates said I have never been there before how I can even like and understand their culture? With that, I have nothing to say but I think she did help me confront that classmate. I feel very satisfied and happy because the guy kept quiet after that. Can you imagine she wrote a reflection journal back to us! This shows that she takes pride in her work! This person I am talking about is Chelsia Toon, my semester one culture facilitator. If she can see this reflection journal, I would want to tell her E36M loves her and hopes she can be my facilitator if there is a chance. I would remember her and hold her in high regard; the one who really changed my life and made me succeed like who I am today. *I hope my journal is not too long or boring!
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