it's really not much of an achievement because when you enroll, you're guaranteed graduation. whether you did well or not. needless to say, the class was extremely helpful. you do get to see results. i read faster already. but like everything else, you need to practice if you plan to make the most of your new skills.

they were telling us that the class works like a seesaw - only one side gets to be on top and the other has to suffer a little bit. eventually, it balances out. unfortunately, i think the seesaw is still a bit lopsided. there's speed, yes. but comprehension. not so much. they explained to us that since there is limited time in class (3 hours), the technique to better comprehension cannot be readily applied. the technique to better comprehension by the way, is MRP. or multiple reading principle. it only means that you read it lots of times so you can retain more information. it's all in the workbook.

they highly encourage us to take the advanced speed reading classes. it looks intersting. maybe next summer?

for the last day of the class, we talked about flexibility, we made more recalls, and we had more team activities. during break, we had pansit and zest-o. haha. extra special, i suppose? we had another facilitator this time. because you see, it went like this:

• Module 1 - Ms. Tami
• Module 2 - Ms. Tracy (the real facilitator)
• Module 3 - Ms. Trisha
• Module 4 - Ms. Tracy
• Module 5 - Ms. Katz

apparently, ms. tracy came down with food poisoning and was feeling "dehydrated" a lot. it doesn't make much of a difference. they all seem to have the syllabus down pat. on the other hand, we had to introduce ourselves 4 times throughout the whole program. so by now, i pretty much know all of my classmate's names. we're 25, all in all.

have i mentioned that we were split into teams?

• Team 1 - Cute Dogs
  
• Team 2 - Wild Cats (my team)
• Team 3 - Gogo! Tigers
• Team 4 - Vicious Lions

we had lots of group activities and we were given points. the team with the most points by the end of the week will win a prize. the cute dogs bagged first place. they got pens. grreat. we came in third. not so bad. at least we weren't in the last place. :D

they didn't give us our PRF's (progress report...something) back. i kinda wanted it back because i wanna see if i can improve. oh, well.

i really enjoyed myself. i definitely recommend it. :D