Dear Mrs Yeo, how are you? I'm fine and so is the class and we all miss you so dearly. Most of us have made it to Sec 4E6 and things have changed quite dramatically for us. Because this year is our final year and with the O-levels around the corner all the secondary four are starting to feel the pressure. We have to stay back for remedials almost everyday of the week and it is very stressful. Hopefully all our hard work will pay off at the end of the year.

Anyway, i just want to share with you some changes that have occured since the start of 2008. For one, the school has been repainted with different colours. I don't personally fancy them but, it's not my choice to make. But enough about that, recently we;ve had our annual sec one orientation camp and it was a success. The intake of seconday one students was good and we had eight classess this year. Although this is a rather large number to handle, the secondary one orientation camp "Stamp KR" went smoothly. There were some minor setbacks such as heavy rain during the games session which forced everyone to have to use the back-up plans of indoor games but in the end everything went well including the mass dance and this year the class i was in-charge of 1N3,even won second place for the cherring section which made this camp very significant to me as it is the last orientation camp i would be attending of my four years in Kent Ridge.

Another recent event that has taken place in Kent Ridge was having students from Shanghai come over. After some of our Kent Ridgeans had gone over to experience life in Shanghai last year, the Shanghai students now had a turn to do the same in SIngapore. These students were all about 14 years of age which made the seconday four including me, their seniors. Three of the shanghai students had to stay with their buddies in our class for two weeks to learn with us. Unfortunately, they didn't learn much as all our lessons were conducted in English except for mandarin. So they spent most of their time in our class sleeping. I personally found it exciting to have foreign students in our class and yet, it was excruciatingly difficult for me to communicate with them. My mandarin was of a horrible standard and yet it was the only way i could communicate with the shanghai students. Eventually it trained me to speak more mandarin and at the same time, alot of sign language was also practiced! When we played basketball after school sign language was often used between us. but it didn't really matter as long as we won. The Shanghai students left on the 31st of January, a Friday, amd there was a band performance and council mass dance by the school to say goodbye to them. They too gave a short performance and then there was a barbeque which unfortunately for me was only for the students from Shanghai and their buddies.

Well, those were just two of the many events that have happened at Kent Ridge since the start of 2008 and have so much more to say. But i'm a very very lazy person so, maybe next time I'll write more. Happy Chinese New Year in advance Mrs Yeo