Unexpected, right?
Yeah, I'm back! Don't know how long I'll be continuing this, but I suddenly thought of blogging again today after this super dreadful class in school. Perhaps this is one of the few platforms that I can rant in without flooding other people's timeline or whatsoever? And I realised my last post was less than a year ago, okay la still not too late to revive this space of mine. (:
Just a quick update, if you havent already know, I'm in Taiwan now for an semester of exchange programme. Life's pretty good in general, it's pretty chill, like we're on 5 months of holidays~
But there are just a few things that I couldn't stand at this point in time, and perhaps cos everything's happening all at once, it feels extremely annoying.
1. The annoying teacher
Pardon my limited vocab. I was trying to think of another word to describe this teacher but I couldnt. So I took this module under this teacher, who's dreadfully boring and dumb, but forces everyone to pay attention to him. Let me start off with his grading requirement (listed in the course outline).
Assignments: 30%
Attendances: 30%
Presentation: 40%
His lessons aren't interesting. He can't teach. His slides are wordy and he loves rambling on and on. Looking at his grading requirement, it implied that his lessons aren't important cos nothing will be tested. Perhaps the only reason why people attend would his class is the 30% attendances. Seriously, the teachers here emphasise too much on attendance, he's not the only one. But that aside, I hate the way he forces everyone to listen to his unimportant ramblings. Last week, he asked all of us to put our phones and laptops aside, and added that he assumes that those with their laptops on are taking down notes of his lessons and he wanted us to show him the notes we took down after class. If you really want us to pay attention, you either be more interesting or you test us on the contents of your lessons. If not, you jolly well grant us our freedom to do whatever we want. Not listening to you is our choice, even if it means that we're losing out from your teaching or whatsoever. I can't comprehend why, at a university level, the teacher is still forcing students to come for classes and listen to him.
Every lesson, he tries to interact with the class by popping questions halfway through his lesson, like "Do you know who is the in charge of this programme...", "Do you know how much the athletes are awarded in the Olympics" etc etc, and he would often direct the question to us as well, "How about the students from Singapore?". Most of the time, such questions would catch me by surprise, cos most of the time my mind is wandering off somewhere else. Sometimes, I don't understand his question. Sometimes, I don't know the answer to his question. Okay I admit my general knowledge isn't that good, but sometimes his questions are really quite hard to answer... Like asking us who is the IOC representative from Singapore...
So today, he popped another question again. I didn't quite catch what it was, but we didn't know how to reply him. Then he said something quite insulting. "我剛和一位新加坡的朋友吃午餐, 他說新加坡的大學生很厲害. 那為甚麼你們這也不懂, 新加坡到底教了你們甚麼?" Seriously? I felt like rolling my eyes at him and slapping him right at that moment. Perhaps we don't learn the things that you think we should, but at least our education system allow us to practise practical writing and presentation skills that would probably benefit us more than whatever boring unnecessarily important facts.
I shall further elaborate this point by giving an example. He gave us an assignment, asked us to do our research on "something", without giving us an actual requirement of what he expects. Everything was verbal, there weren't any written or printed requirement. He only explained more when we consulted him personally and realised that what he wanted us to do was to talk about something that we find interesting but not commonly found in Taiwan, then introduce the activity or object to the class. He made us give presentations on our topic, and we could see that some of his Taiwanese students weren't exactly sure of what they were doing. Half of the groups had their presentations rejected and were made to present again the following week. At least we Singaporeans knew what we were doing and we could express ourselves through our presentation, even in a language that we don't usually present in.
This is just one of such examples. I could've gone on an on about how I think this particular teacher is a frigging asshole who annoys the hell out of me every single lesson and I've got totally no respect for him but I need to pass this module hence I can only rant here but I'm getting lazy to do so and he's not worth so much of my time so I'm gonna stop and yeah, to the next point.
2. Mosquito bites
LOOK AT MY HEARTBREAKINGLY DISFIGURED LEGS!! Thanks to the mozzies here, my legs are full of scars and bites. I can't stop scratching, though I know it's bad but it's really, really too itchy ): So disgusted with the my legs now... 18 mosquito bites on my legs, that's frigging insane okay? Don't know if the scars are ever going away, I think they might be permanent T.T Why, why bite meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
3. Faulty Wifi
I swear there's something wrong with my house Wifi, can't wait for the landlord to get someone to fix it tomorrow. The Wifi is so unstable, it often gets disconnected. It's stopping my YouTube videos from working and my apps are loading painfully slowly sometimes... And maybe this explains why I'm back blogging? Hahahaha.
Alright actually things aren't thaaaaaat bad. I just really felt the sudden hatred and anger towards the teacher this afternoon and I really really wanted to rant it out somewhere. Dreading my Thursday afternoons thanks to him. Hoho and till the next time I update this page of mine, ciao~
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