manresa

after a decade, i went back as a 'resource speaker' to 'enlighten' this AY's batch of juniors for their career oreintation. i have no complaints about the crowd: they were pretty good listeners... but god knows how much i wondered and pondered on the word 'desensitization' while i was listening to both the students, teachers and counselors speak outside the auditorium, prior to my talk... they obviously got so used to the way people around them spoke (home or school, it really doesn't matter much), they all practiced bad grammar without any one of them calling out on each other; seriously: i would have welcomed ANY ONE who would raise a knowing eyebrow and laugh/ giggle at a grammatical error, or mispronunciation. i know the difference when people let bad grammar/ mispronunciations slide, and when people really couldn't tell the difference at all. it was really just sad to listen to them naturally shifting from the vernacular to english: it was 'carabao- english' in the divine spotlight. *yikes*shudder*scree* i'd like to believe that we 'old graduates' got all the good stuff: i guess all the good teachers eventually looked for greener pastures when our batch left...

manresa is expanding, growing and building more and more structures; they have maintained a good reputation on nurturing the catholic faith
(as it IS still run by nuns) and have even proven their traditional way of educating children effective as MOST (note that it's still not all) students who leave the boundary and walls of the school manage to do well beyond it. research (remember the pesky objectives?!) is apparently good training for what college may bring for the manresan graduate... but GOD ALMIGHTY, PLEASE: they need all the help they can get in the languages area. yeah yeah: some may beg to disagree... but seriously? everything starts with a good foundation, with the proper and consistent training. if they keep up with the bad grammar and poor communication skills, manresans might start denying they ARE manresans... and i am seriously starting to consider just that. ;p i suddenly wouldn't mind if they started speaking like the kids on the new 90210, one tree hill, or even gossip girl series... aargh!
no wonder my younger sibs speak funny. *groan*