Monday, May 10, 2010

On turning 8


Hi everyone!

I have just turned 8 and I feel like I am growing up a little more. =) I can turn on the dining table light switch and I am also tall enough to just about touch Mummy's air con remote control! I can't wait to grow taller so that I can take Mummy's air con remote controller off the holder so I can help her turn the air con on.

I celebrated my birthday on Saturday in Rio Vista's function room. Mummy made a Spiderman Pinata and cake. Lao Gou baked the cake and mummy drew on it. Mummy took 3 days to make the Pinata- a lot of it was gluing and drying. I helped her to tear some of the paper for her to use. There were a lot of the people on my birthday and it was fun trying to break open the Pinata. Mummy also bought huge balloons that many people helped us to blow up. The children and I had a blast kicking and punching and playing with the BIG balloons. Thanks to everyone for the presents. I loved them!

I think that being in Primary 2 is even better than being in Primary 1 because it is harder to do some of the work and I enjoy having a challenge once in a while. Chinese is getting quite challenging now but I think I can make it in the exam. I am getting better at maths and I enjoy doing sums involving multiplication, subtraction and addition. Division is quite hard because you have to take the number behind and then use multiplication to make it into the number in front.

We have a new classmate and his name is William. He comes from China and he is 10 years old. He is currently sitting next to me and I am also sandwiched between him and Benedict. William plays with Anthony and Tristan, but sometimes Tristan doesn't allow Anthony to play with William. This is because Mrs. Teo has orders that we are to speak to William in English, and she has also told Anthony to keep away from him. Mrs Teo knows that Anthony is very playful and can sometimes hurt people because he is very strong. I think that Anthony doesn't know his own strength. William is quite tall. He is taller than Anthony but actually it's because he is older. He is very friendly and when the teacher tells us not to copy each other's work, he does not allow anybody to copy his. Since he is from China, his Chinese is really good although he is not so good in English. Mrs. Teo lets him read the big books that we've studied and lets him do the school work and homework that we did earlier this year. He is improving quite a bit but there are still some words he does not understand. I try to help him by speaking to him in simple English and speaking to him in good mandarin during Chinese lessons.

I hope that I can get an A minus or A plus or A star for all of my 3 subjects. I think that I need to study a bit harder and listen more to my teachers during class.

That's all the updates for now. Write again soon!

'Til the next blog,
Kae