Bumping with excitement, I headed towards the Science Lab. It was my first practical lesson for Secondary 2 and I was eager to experience things that I have not experienced before. Well, before the lesson itself, I had already predicted the lesson to revolve around chemistry and I was right.
We started off with Acids and Bases, or should I say, studied about it for the entire term. Actually, during the school holidays, I have briefly read this topic already. With my hopes down, I begin to lose interest in the lessons as I thought that I had already known enough. However, there is something special in practical lessons; to experience the experiments yourself and be amazed by the results yourself.
This was something that could never be achieved no matter how vividly and excitingly the textbook describes the experiment. Handling the apparatus and feeling the vibration caused by the reaction during one of the practical lesson, I suppose 1P07, was extremely amazing. This was probably the first time I get to have first hand experience on handling acids and bases.
Basically, practical lessons thought me not to look at things from only one angle and be narrow-minded. It is fine to learn the same thing again, especially if we can learn it from a different point, rather than just reading and memorising the textbook.
Hope all of you reading this can bear my reflections in mind and enjoy our practical lessons for they may be the only time we get to handle such chemicals!
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