"Will a new class mean, no friends?"
Ever since Crystal didn't make the cut for her desired stream, she is forced to "live with whatever she has". Being alienated by her old classmates, she hesitantly accepts her fate being with NONE of her fire-fo...
Playing a song on my phone, I slipped my phone under the table and got to work on my Chinese revision. Flipping open my assessment book, I started on a brand new test paper and read the passage before me. What is the passage about? Where can my answers be? For the first time in my life, I felt a drive I never did before and did everything I could not to touch my phone while completing my comprehension practices. I kept reminding myself to copy from the passage because the answers would always be there and to think of a realistic personal example I could explain for the world question.
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"I'm done!" I declared as I looked at the new flash cards I made on Quizlet. The flash cards for the Chinese test were all ready. I then accessed the flash cards and started to match the cards with one another, redoing it until I had a 100% accuracy. I repeated that for all six passages with the phrases that'll be covered in the test. After all, the last two times I tripped up, it was because of the phrases...
Flashback
2 years prior
"Xu Yin*," the Chinese teacher told me as she passed me my paper.
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21/35.
By a Singapore student's standard, this would be beyond expectations. Not for me, I'm a different species. After all, I always did well for Chinese until that moment.
It hit me like a ton of bricks, enough for shut people up when they showed even a bit of concern for me. Luckily, someone managed to reach out to me. Yes, it did bring me some comfort but sucking at something you're supposed to be good at isn't a good feeling at all. And if 21/35 won't get me out of the toxic environment that'll be a lose-lose academically and socially, I should avoid this entirely. Present day A few weeks later "The time is 9.30. You may begin. All the best!" My Chinese teacher announced. We flipped the papers all at once.
The paper didn't feel as hard as it should be. I was acing the paper, slowing down to think when I had to. But when the answer was obvious, I just wrote it. No more daydreaming because I mentally gave up, I fought on until the end.
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