Bring back the fun

This is the start of the third week of school.  I enjoyed school last year before the break.  My class was great with helpful, friendly and fun-loving friends.  And we learnt a lot in class.  The teacher would introduce new topics and we learnt new vocabulary and construct sentences with these words.  Some times, she would hand out worksheets and we learn even more words through reading the passages contained in them.

When I got transferred to this new class, I thought we would be doing the same, only at a faster pace.  However, it has been many days and sadly, I have not learnt much in class.  Instead of being taught new words and phrases, we had to write about what we have done during our short break, what we have done during the weekend, what we were going to do the next weekend.  To me, it hasn't helped me to acquire new words.  It's purely repetition of words and sentences.  Repetition is good but this is too much. 

I would get bored since I would finish my writing quite quickly since I would just use the sentences I have already used and just replace a few words here and there.  At other times, we would be given newspapers to read.  We were to select an article and then tell the others in our group what we have read.  This is the hard one.  Too tough for beginners like me.  I had to use the translator of almost all the words in a short article.  Harder still to summarise it before I can tell it to my group mates.

So for the last two weeks, I have been quite miserable in class.  Every morning, I would tell Pete that I dread going to school.  This is very different from last year.  I was always eager to go to class because I simply can't wait to tackle the worksheets and reading passages.  Now, it's boring yet stressful in class since the rest of my classmates have learnt much more than me and they are better at speaking. 

I thought I was the only one feeling like I'm wasting time in class.  Last Friday, I talked to a classmate who lives near me.  I learnt from her that the rest of the class also feels quite frustrated about the little progress that's made.  She said that their previous teacher was much better.  He insisted on everyone speaking Swedish only in class and would teach them a lot of new words every day.  They had to make him slow down since he was teaching too much. 

And then yesterday, somehow, someone brought up this issue in class and I found that everybody felt the same.  Our regular teachers were not there yesterday so we talked about it with the teacher assistant.  We shared our feelings about the lessons and she promised to discuss our issue with the teachers and to let them know how we feel.  Let's see how it goes from now.  I really hope the lessons would be like how they used to be.  I want school to be fun again.