Ok.. back from a long absence. Blogging less nowadays, been busy..

Science Olympiad regionals today. Seriously, I'm a lousy teacher. A booming voice really helps if you're a elementary/ middle school teacher.. The place felt like Singapore orientation today. Stations everywhere, kids move to different stations to do their tests, get briefed at the station, then try to win their test against the other schools. Just that they've been preparing this for 4 months. It was quite a coordinating mess, since the whole thing is run by parents in a school that is not familiar to anyone. So you see 2 kinds of parents, one kind that are just hanging around everywhere gossiping and the other kind who are running around crazily to coordinate everything, like what the orientation leaders do.

I was watching the "storm the castle" event. The participants had to build a catapult (before hand) to fire balls at a box and you win if you hit the box in 3 tries. Quite hard. Not many people can do it, but there were some fantastic catapults though, shooting very very far. Reminds me of the ice-cream stick catapult that we made in RJ. None of these catapults fell apart after shooting. They're good. =)

It's just crazy that everything is organised by parents. How good a school is is determined by the power of parents. If the parents are lousy, too bad, your school won't even have a Science Olympiad team.