Big Bee's school celebrated their 1XXth anniversary this year, and published a large beautiful book with specially-commissioned exquisite photos of the students, teachers and staff in all sorts of activities around the school, as well as a charming collection of creative essays by the students. The photos reinforce the strong bonds and culture that permeate their school, and the essays highlight the students' dreams, aims and perspectives about different aspects of school life.
I was elated to find out that one essay that Big Bee wrote earlier this year was selected to be featured in this memorable keepsake. Her essay took up a whole double-page spread with 2 handsome photographs, and I delight in revelling in that spread every once in a while.
Here is Big Bee's featured essay - I hope she will grow to love writing as much as she loves reading now.
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FUTURE SCHOOL
It is 27 March 2062 in the morning at 7.30. The school badges worn by all the students are vibrating and flashing with lights.
Going to the different levels of the school in 2062 is not tiring at all as there are escalators to transport the students up to their classrooms. At the square where the students assemble every morning is an automatic, moveable shelter that can be opened or closed according to the weather. If it rains, the students need not run for shelter during assembly. A prefect can just go to the general office and press a big, red button located there, and the shelter will cover the square.
After assembly, our badges vibrate again. Time for lessons! The lessons are held in special, high-tech classrooms that are air-conditioned. We also have comfortable sofas and white marble tables for doing our work instead of chairs and desks. The whiteboards are now really special! Fifty years ago, the teachers had to use marker pens to write on the whiteboard. Now the teachers only need to type whatever they want on the computer in their desks, and the words that they have typed will be projected on the whiteboard. All the students now have our very own iPads that are used for learning.
The music rooms are in a guitar-shaped building. One of the many rooms inside is for learning piano, another for learning violin, and yet another room is used for singing lessons. The art and craft rooms are in a big building shaped like paint brushes. That is where we learn to paint, and there is currently an art exhibition to showcase the art pieces that the students have created through the decades.
The toilets are all very clean and do not smell as there are toilet robots that keep them very clean. We do not need to worry about people not flushing the toilets or dirtying the floors.
The canteen is the best place in school! There are now no stalls or hawkers selling food, but there are vending machines. All we need to do is to press a button indicating what food we want, pay the money to a canteen robot, and the food will be served to us by a conveyer belt so that there are no queues at all.
"Buzz....!" The badges of the students start vibrating again. How time flies! It is now time for school dismissal! Some students take their school buses home, and others stroll home with their parents. There are also some who stay back for after-school activities. This is yet another busy but fun day in my school in 2062.
2 comments:
The future campus sounds so comfortable that I wish I'm a student in 2062. But it probably will produce lazy students haha!! No need to queue for food, no need to flush toilets. You don't even need to run for shelter!!! Life is TOO good!!
the future robotic years has come..2062,oh no!!! couldn't imagine what the student life could be if this things happened...how about a robotic ways to understand lessons easily?? I know this is the hardest things could students struggle of.
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