Teachers' Day Celebration.

09 August 2008 @ 05:31 pm

LOVE

L is for the language arts you teach
O is for the oranges you eat
V is very, very… oh so very sleepy
E is for the grade I get for mathematics this term

Love is all that we receive from you
Love is more than just a grade or two
Food, in class can’t eat it
Take my bread but please don’t chuck it
Love was made for me and you

L is for the logarithmic graphs
O is for everything overdue
V is very, very… oh so very hungry
E is for the education you have given to me

Love is what we wanna give to you
Love is more than just a gift or two
Chem, a little boring
But you helped make it interesting
Love was made for me and you

We will never forget you
Happy Teachers’ Day to you

(Sung to the tune of LOVE by Nat King Cole)

These were the lyrics I came up with, along with 2 friends and my brother for Teachers’ Day. In our school, every class has to come up with something to perform for the teachers, and our audition was the next day.

We had not done anything. What to do? Well, we weren’t really interested in performing (as is usually the case with my class), so we decided to just make up some lyrics which would show that we did put in effort, but not enough effort to be selected.

Unfortunately, while I was composing the lyrics, I began to think that we might have a chance to be selected to perform for the teachers. I started to think that I wanted the class to get in. After so long, the class was still pretty uncooperative and didn’t really care whatever happened. Maybe we could use this to promote bonding (however late it might be) and perhaps… Just perhaps, we could actually work together for one event, and show everyone that 410 isn’t just some loser class no one cares about. Of course, my class doesn’t really care about its reputation, but that isn’t the point here, is it? I want to see my classmates put in effort for a class activity. I want them to appreciate the other members of the class. Not everything is merely about the individual.

I wasn’t there for the audition, but my friends said they were so embarrassed performing it for the teachers and students there. The teachers apparently said that the lyrics “had potential” and stood a chance of getting in. The class seemed uneasy at this (as is the usual) and whined about having put in too much effort. But for me, it was a personal victory. HA!

By the way, the line “O is for the oranges you eat” was written because I had the idea of putting a teacher’s face on the Sunkist advert where a teacher had a slice of orange in her mouth. But later my class changed it to organic chemistry. Darn. No fun at all.


Current Location: At home
Current Mood: Content
Current Music: "Chapter 1: Girl of the Spirit Forest" from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of Holy War