After morning registration, I will go to my first period. I have a total of nine different classes; however I have only four periods per day. Five classes I take are compulsory: English, math, science, IPSE and PE. The elective classes I chose are: geography, resistance materials, business and French. On Mondays, I have English for my first period, PE for my second, business for my third, science for the last. On Tuesdays I, in order, i have IPSE, English, resistance materials then French last. On Wednesdays I have, in order, Geography, Science, Math and technology. On Thursdays I have, in order, French, science, math and English. On Fridays I have, in order, geography, math, science then business. My favorite day of the week would be Fridays and Thursdays because it's the last 2 days of the school weeks.
After my first and second periods I will go to tutor time which is when my form tutor announces school events, signs our diaries or we will just chat or read. These sessions are held by house groups; there are 5 different houses in our school: Tasman, Hilary, Kinsley, Scott and Armstrong. They are all named after famous explorers. Afterwards, we have our morning break. Some students play basketball, while others remain in the form room and either do homework or sit around and relax. But I, like a lot of other student, will go down to the cafeteria and get something to eat along with two of my close friends, Katherine and Stacy. We talk about random things while when eating, so we take forever to eat! But we only have around twenty minutes to eat. After break, I to third period, that usually seems to past away the fastest, because it is followed by lunch time where I can have fun and relax with my friends yet again. We have a fifty minute lunch break, but I normally eat my lunch at morning break. So at lunch time I will hang out with my friends and walk around the school or just stay in the form room and chat about all sorts of different things, such as Korean pop, music, homework etc.
I have my last period after lunch. The 4th period is also one of the most enjoyable lessons because after 4th period I am able to go home, except on Thursdays and Mondays when I have to go to my out of school tutor lessons. I ride the school bus back home, except this time the bus journey is more entertaining (compared to the morning one,) because everyone is awake, excited and hyper. When I return home the very first thing, I do is turn on my computer. Then I change my clothes and maybe make a snack. My parents are still at work so I call my mum to inform about my day at school ad simply that I have returned home safely, otherwise she would be worried. I used to always forget to make the call, but now, it’s like a daily routine. Similar to how I got use to eating alone in the mornings.
I like to surf the Internet a lot when I arrive home because I get to know how my friends are doing through MSN. Sometimes, I also take a little nap after school if I am sleepy but I like to read before doing so. After I’ve taken my nap I will go on the computer and start doing some studying. Although I won’t be very concentrated on my work because my friends chat to me online , I try to mullet-task and if I am doing an important essay I appear offline and concentrate on my essay . I have a habit of listening to music while working; I think it makes me concentrate more. I do get distracted by the song sometimes but I noticed if I don’t listen to homework, I end up going off topic and start surfing the internet again. At around 7 or 8 my parents will have arrived home from work and our helper by that time will have prepared dinner and we will have a family dinner together. The dishes for dinner, seems to be very similar. There is always rice for dinner, around 4 dishes and a soup. We always have a Chinese style dinner, because my family’s Chinese.
After dinner I will do some surfing on the internet on sites like: Facebook, Hotmail and YouTube. When I get bored of the internet I will finish off the rest of my homework. I am normally “online” at night and my friends will talk to me and we will ask each other question about essays and stuff. But even though I am not very concentrated in the evening, I am able to finish my homework before 10: 30 and I will take a shower and pack my bag for the next day, so that I won’t forget anything. Then I go to bed and have a lovely sleep. This is a day in my life. My day is quite simple, but very enjoyable.
