Singhala Lesson

My brother was sick so I was the only one who took the lesson today. I didn't work on the writing part, because I had to keep the pace with my brother. So today I read the previous book. My tutor is quite pleased with my speed of reading. I think it's still slow, but hopefully I can improve it and get better at reading. I still get confused with some of the letters, but it will be fine soon.
Hopefully I can work on the writing for next week.

Library Service

I worked on finishing the poster from last week. While I was working on it, my friend came and helped me out. Thanks to her, I managed to finish it on time. Phew...
I haven't touched the books for two weeks now in Library Service, and hopefully i can start working on something new from next week.

30th November ~ 5th December ---> Book week!
"The more you read, the more you know!"

Singhala Lesson

I started working on the new book, which is the writing part. It's about grade 2 level. Just like Japanese and English, writing in Singhala is quite different from speaking. I find it quite difficult, but the only good thing is that I can write. However, there are some letters that has got similar sound with the others, so I usually get confused which one to use... Sometimes if I use the different letter for writing, even though it has got similar pronounciation, a word becomes tortally different meaning, so I have to be carefull with writing. It's a lot harder than speaking and reading. First I need to be able to know what is the sound of the letter when I'm writing. One D sound has got something like "Dah", but then other D sound pronouce it as "Duh". So I have to listen carefully if I were to copy down what people are saying...

Library Service

Today we were making the posters for the coming up "Book Week" on the 30th November to 5th of December.
We were making our own individual + original posters. I decided to write the OSC-book-slogan, which is "The more you read, the more you know". I decided to use the magazine pictures to make some collage. Others were drawing the manga or using the computer to create them. Mine was not finished, so I have to work on it again next week. It's about 70% finished and all I need to do is to paste the pictures and then do some degining then I'll be done.

Elective

Finally the elective! We haven't been seen each other for almost 2~3 weeks!?
Our aim for today was to finish making the elephants. Most of the class has went half way through, so they were able to finish them. The climax of the elephant was quite difficult, but then I could hear the excitement in their voice as the object started to look like an elephant.
I made 4 elephants before the elective, and showed them how it's going to look like. They were quite excited when they saw them.
Three people were doing did not start on making the elephants last time, so they were quite behind from others. Since they had to start from the beginning, I let them watch the video and start making the elephants. Although the video was easier than the written instruction, it was still difficult for them to make it, so I had to go to both sides, so it was quite difficult for me to do the elective today.
Anyway, at the end, eveyone finished making their own elephant, except for one girl. She wasn's happy with making elephant and she found it very boring, so I gave her my elephant. Because these elephants are going to be on the front page of the Yearbook for this year, they all have to have their own elephants.
Some of them said that they want to make the geckoes, but they are way too difficult and complicated. Although I can do the Origami, when tried to make one by watching the video, it was too complicated and I had to give up after feeling so dizzy...
We have to come up with another plan for the next time. There's only few electives left, so I hope I can find something fun, because most of them find this elective very boring. I have to decide whether I will do beads or Origami.