I wanted to blog about people.
People whom have made an impression on me.

But i,m gonna limit this group to people in my class.
First impressions. I am a person who believes in first impressions but , it seems that this time round , i was misleaded by them.

I would probably talk about 3 people today.

First person would be Ms.M
Ms.M is a girl in my class.
My first impression of her was that she was a flirty girl , rather loud one.
By fate , i happened to be seated next to Ms.M in class.
I started to realize that theres more than meets the eye.
I thought that Ms.M was someone who played a lot , made commotions , wanted attention. I didnt think she would be serious about anything but i was proven wrong.
I was walking to the bustop with Ms.M a few days ago and the talk started to lean towards our lessons. The thing is , if you actually stop and listen , i can really agree with her point of view.
Ms.M and i are similar in the issue that we both have the same academic goals and are serious about work in general.
However , what really made want to blog about Ms.M was her morals.
After about a week of having lessons and sitting next to her , i start to realize that Ms.M was actually a very very compassionate person.
Let me cite some examples.
She doesnt leave anyone behind. I mean she makes a concious effort to talk to people.
She is really nice.
Yesterday , i found out that she was a volunteer at a care centre which helped mentally disabled children.
Because of this particular point , i started being able to understand her actions better.
What she does is she talks to children , teenagers whom have been discharged from the institute of mental health. They are normal children but are very introverted.
They find it hard to make conversation and refuse to open up to people.
She talks to them , befriends them and gets them to open up.
I admire her devotion because while i may be a volunteer and a Racial Harmony Youth Ambassador , i,m a pretty horrible one and havent been active for the past year.
I think its because of what she does that contributes to her bubbly personality. Always laughing , smiling and generally lifting up the mood of the whole group.

There was also this particular excercise where we were split into groups.
I was in the same group as Ms.M
This was what we had to do.

There has been a nuclear war and there are only 11 people left on earth.
There is a shelter which can protect them from the harmful effects.
However , only 6 people can fit into the shelter.

These are the survivors
1. A pregnant teenage girl
2. A catholic priest
3. A doctor in his 40's that miraculously recovered from luekemia
4. A mother who has lost all 3 of her children in the war
5. Jamie Oliver , the naked chef
6. A fraud who was able to escape from jail because of the war
7. A homosexual
8. A 78 year old grandmother
9. A young politician who has had a good clean record
10. A mentally disabled person
11. er. i forgot. but its irrelavant.

We came to the conclusion that
we should save the

choices
1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 9 and 10.

I took this question rather pragmatically.
The teenage girl for sure. Shes pregnant , she can help add to the population rate.
The doctor , he has medical skills which are essential.
Jamie oliver. everyone loves him = )

But Ms.M
Her first choice was actually the mentally disabled person.
Yes i realize that its not the smartest choice. But after listening to her explanation i started to think that she was a pretty thoughtful person.

" Society has to learn to care for the unfortunate. Right now , many youths have no compassion and are self centered. By saving a mentally disabled person , The forefathers of the future human race , these survivors will have to take care of the mentally disabled person. Thus , they will instill these positive values to the next generation and so on. This could lead to a more caring society. "

I felt my respect for her go up tremendously after hearing this much.
I mean , sure she might feel that way because she works with this sort of people but its something rare which you dont see in many youths nowadays.
I feel that i have lots more to learn from Ms.M

I am suffering from influenza and i have a sore throat.
This is common amongst 3 people in my class.
Today when i went to school , Ms.M asked me if i was feeling better.
I told her that i was better but my throat was still sore.
She reached into her bag and fished out a bottle of herbal medicine which was meant to soothe the throat. She gave the 3 of us a bottle of that herbal medicine each.
I was really touched by that action.

So yea. This is for Ms.M
Thankyou

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Ok. i realized i took up too much time writing about Ms.M
Anyway , the next persons is Mr.L

My first impression of Mr.L was some jock who was full of himself and liked to step on people.

Yes... i sit next to Mr.L too.
Ms.M is on my left and Mr.L is on my right.

Mr.L was elected Home Tutorial Councillor.
But gradually , i came to see that while he may have a little bit of stuck up attitude , hes a reliable person.

Sure. He grumbled a lot when he was " SABO'd " into becoming the HTC.
But hes really resposible. He collects the lecture notes on time , he locks the door whenever we leave class , opens up the classroom in the morning , locks the classroom after school.

I know these might seem like menial tasks but it says a lot.
Imagine yourself in his shoes. It sucks to have to do all these.

I can also tell that hes pretty serious about his studies and he actually listens.
I am rather glad that hes my friend because yea ... i think hes someone you can count on.

Also , my first impression of him was that he was one of those guys who would wanna be cool , i thought that he would always wanna be part of the crowd.
But today , the crowd did something wrong.
I think , times like these really test what a person is made of. I mean he could have just followed them and have fun but i guess what they were doing went against his moral values and stuff. So , he decided not to follow the crowd and stick with me.

I,m not trying demean my classmates btw. Theyre pretty cool people. Its just that i feel they shouldnt have skipped the 2 hour chinese class. Its just not right.

So yup . I,m pretty impressed by Mr.L
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Lastly , theres Ms.N
Yea.
Ok. When it comes to Ms.N , its not really about first impressions.
Its more like , i think shes pretty cool.
I had a good first impression of her and its gotten better.
Ms.N is just an intelligent person.
She asks the right questions , her answers make sense and she is just pretty well informed about things.
Shes a little like your Ms-know-it-all except she doesnt know it all although she knows quite a bit.
Another thing is that shes rather humble about stuff.
Shes the kind of person whom i would wanna do groupwork with.
Yea. Shes cool.

and i,m tired.

Goodnight