Yan Yixuan1

  It is really a rare experience for me to wake up so early and take bus to school, but I still experienced a pleasant journey. I enjoy the feeling lying on the seat, without thinking anything, and just enjoy myself and sometimes reflected something or thought about the future. And I also enjoy the beautiful morning glow, a blob of red coincident with the slightly dark blue. When I first time saw it, I almost jumped up and screamed to my friend. When it comes to the raise of flag, together with the beautiful song of <Majulah Singapura>, one or two black birds flash across the light blue sky, leaving no trace. After school, I always take double-bus 198 back to RVR; double bus is such an amazing thing that no matter how many times I take it, I feel nothing but excited and interested. Especially when I seated on the first line of the second floor, observing pedestrians walking fast with an anxious face, or the tall trees passing by me, or the fancy things I saw during the journey such as “see real snow in Singapore”. In fact, the scenario I saw during the JC journey really brought me a pleasant mood. 

Huang Chao 3

After these few days living most of the day with Singaporeans, I find myself more immersed with them. It is really an interesting experience to get close to them and see what Singaporean peers do.
First of all, they are very humorous In class, they can telling jokes with teachers; therefore, their classes are much more interesting.
Also, they are friendly to each other and become a warm and harmony family. In every class the number of students is good enough for them to get acquainted to each other as much as possible. I can see their deep friendship between boys and boys, girls and girls and also boys and girls.
Last but not least, thank you for my buddy's care very much!

Huang Chao 2

    Looking backward to my JC experience, now I want to share some opinions about Singapore education system.

    The biggest difference with China's education system is that Singapore pays a lot of attention to help students become a completely good person. The reasons for me to draw this conclusion are simply that they should watch their national flag rise five days a week; also they need to choose a compulsory CCA. 

    However, China's education is not really so bad that every time we think about it we should criticize it. In fact, China has a good result of cultivating talented students. Though a great percentage of them are not good at creativity, they can still seek for chance to become creativity! It is not such a case that if their basic knowledge is concrete so that they will never become creative. 

    Instead, I also find a shortness which I think maybe Singapore education system has. It is about the study. I have never imagined JC classes sometimes can be so fun. However rather than laughter, which help students to get a good result and become intelligent is teaching and learning that knowledge. However in my eyes, lectures seem to be too broad and simple for students to master all the knowledge used in the tutorial classes. Does that mean Singapore students prefer to learn by themselves at home referring to lecture notes? Does Singapore education system want to cultivate their independent learning skills somewhat on purpose?

    This is a big question in my mind now. I hope some day I can find out Singapore students are really good at their study as well. But at least one point I must learn from them, that is their personal integrated qualities.

JC Immersion & my uncompleted school life(Sun Zeyu)

One pleasant thing with a little shallow sadness is that JC immersion successfully reminded me of my life in my primary school, secondary school and middle high school. It brought me back to that stage of my life, which is never coming back; which I shall never experience; which has become a permanent past tense in my whole life. It abruptly occurs to me that the reason why so many people want to live their life for a second time is not because of the things they regret; it is because of things they treasure. The past pleasant times, which were not enjoyed fully by them, always passed too fast for them to get them back. They passed so fast, so quietly, so mercilessly, leaving only the memory. In my mind, in-school education can be taken as a part of one’s whole in all dimensions. Primary school, secondary school and middle high school is one part of one’s educational life stage, while university is another stage. In university you can never have a close bunch of classmates with whom, closely, you share your smile, your tears, your flag-raising site, your horrible exam marks, your head-teacher assembly as well as nearly one sixth of your life.

The moment when I notice the hyper-active atmosphere in physics class, I felt like I suddenly fell back into the best time of my school life-last year in secondary school. It is amazing how much fun these JC guys can have with each other in physics class. They hide their desk-mate’s stationary, pass it one by one; just wait the poor guy to shout and all of them laugh together. It sounds childish; however, everyone who has attended a basic education can form this picture in mind since it is so popular internationally among our energetic, active and hyperactive students.

So, send my sincere gratitude to this JC immersion. No doubt that man can never walk back into his history, just like arrow never turns its head. However, I had an illusion of re-experiencing my first stage educational life-the part always standing for purity, immaturity but naively happiness.

Past happiness can only be re-tasted in memory, which is the fated sadness of all human beings. JC has assisted me to comprehend it in a deeper way as well as a wiser way.

Forever Memory In RVHS (Qin Kun)

Yesterday, we finished our one-week JC immersion. I felt both sad and happy. I was happy because I made many friends in RVHS. I was sad because I would not go to RVHS for class and I could not play with my new friends every day.

Although I got up at 5:20 am every day last week, although I complained that I felt tired every day, I still love  this immersion which gave me a unforgettable experience. Students here were very friendly and kind. Teachers always care for us very much.I love here.

The school motto of RVHS's is still in my mind: 立德立功，化愚化頑. This motto will also remind me all the time to study hard and do better.

Bye Bye! RVHS-- my good River Valley High School!

Chemistry Lab (Qin Kun)

On Wednesday, we had a chemistry lab. Before I came in Lab, I had already been thrilled. I imaged what did lab look like all the time. When I got into lab, I was shocked by its advanced apparatuses which made me more excited.

Then, my buddy Wenxuan and I began our lab together. We washed all the apparatus first, weighed some  sample, and took back some solution. Wenxuan did first and I looked at him. He did it very well and everything went well. He successfully made an accurate solution.

 Next, I tried again in different condition. However, I found it was difficult for me to do it.  Maybe I did not do a experiment for a very long time. My hands was shaking and I could not get accurate solution. Finally, I finished my experiment with Wenxuan's help.

 In China, we have few chances to go to lab. Because we spend most time on "paper". But Wenxuan told me that they would have chemistry and physical labs every week. Thus they did not feel so excited like us.Maybe this is different education system. I enjoyed this lab very much.

Huang Chao

    Instead of showing off my shallow understanding of Singapore's education system, I prefer to share some interesting findings in the past few days.
    One of the most important findings is that some SM1 students in my buddy's class have almost behaved like a Singaporean totally including the accent and appearance. I hardly believe that 3 years can even shape a guy into another kind. Maybe many changes have taken place in my minds, behavior and beliefs as well, as I can feel now. But all in all, I hope every change in my body and mind can help me proceed in the right direction.
    Also, I feel very comfortable staying with my juniors. Year 5 is Senior Middle 2 so that it is the first time most of my classmates are younger than me. My buddy is a good and handsome boy who speaks Chinese very frequently with me. I also know about some of his classmates like the class monitors. The following photo of me and my buddy was taken when we were conducting an experiment. And some other photos were his classmates.

   I am looking forward to the coming 2 last days of my valuable JC immersion. I hope to build up tighter and more harmonious friendship with them, my dear juniors.