No Person Can Choose

Have spent the past week at the cca course, the exact name of which i'd better not divulge here, just in case. Suffice to say that it's not exactly my dream cca(come to think of it, in some ways at least before entering teaching it was my nightmare cca), and that the course continues for another week-and-a-half, the 'highlight', if i may call it that, being a four day three night camp at a place aptly named 'camp r*s*l**ce', a quality that will certainly be much drawn upon by many, if not all of the campers, during the duration of the camp.

The past week was not bad, actually, though the most compelling encouragement that i could pick up from the course conductors to the many involuntary teacher i/cs among the course participants did not get any better than "well, since you kena arrow, might as well make the most of it, right?", which is not exactly the most uplifting of reasonings. Perhaps an apt paraphrase of that reasoning would be that we all should just "bite the bullet". Or in the case of us, fire the bullet, which is what we did on Friday. I was actually rather pleased with myself since i found out that i'm actually not an entirely hopeless shot after all (as i thought was the case after army), though perhaps it would have something to di with the fact that the firing distance was about one tenths as long as what it was back then.

One major minus though is that the food generally is less than less than palatable (no typo there). I'd gladly consume army fresh rations on any given day or even combat rations for that matter over another meal at that place. However, as bad as the food is, the thing about me is that unless the stuff placed on the plate in front of me is especially inedible, i usually will eat it, just so as not to waste food, and as such i've had many a mild irritation on my tongue over the past few days because potentially offensive food (usually some kind of fish by-product) was swiftly plopped onto my plate before i could utter any "auntie, zhe(4) ge(4) bu(4) yao(4)".

I guess however, that i can at least still look forward to some of the activities on the course (which are actually quite interesting). Here's to better weather than the past drab and damp week..