Literature from the past.
I remember once, only once, I've gotten a 21/2five for my literature essay. And I was SUPER SUPER shocked. It was the highest I'd ever gotten and previously I'd only been scoring like 14 and fifteen's.After the teacher went through the paper, I realized that I didn't cover all the 'model answer' stuff and also there was one part that was badly elaborated (in my essay). I quietly walked up to her and said,
"Uhm.. Mrs Low, uhm.."
"Congratulations Claire!"
"Thank you.. but uhhh. I.. don't really understand why I got a 21? Considering I didn't *blahblah*"
"Claire, we felt that your script was well written and even though you didn't cover all the points, you covered the major points. Plus, are you saying that we should give you a lower grade? Because the papers are all moderated, so if we give you a lower grade then everyone else will get their marks moderated down too."
With that, I was shocked and thanked her again and walked back to my seat.
And that was when I started having hope for lit, and hoping that I had some sort of flair in it.
The purpose of this blog entry is to tell everyone that, you might think you're not doing your best in something, or that your expectations of yourself are too high, but you're actually doing really well comparatively, so don't give yourself unnecessary stress.
Look at the people around you and be grateful (:
(This entry is not meant for me to bhb ok, I have failed chinese many many many times and failed lit many many many times too. But just random k?)
