moving classes

Classes have been suspended a week, rightfully if I may add. As for me, I have been absent since last Thursday. I have been sick since I arrived from the peace retreat. Then, there was this typhoon named Ondoy, which left Metro Manila literally underwater. Even if the classes were not suspended, I would still be absent for the whole week this week for personal matters.

I’ve been thinking how this semester had been disturbed by so many uncontrollable forces since it started. In fact, the start of classes had been postponed for a week because of the A(H1N1) scare. Then, there were numerous typhoons that warranted the suspension of classes. Because of the delays, the professors have been forcing students to catch up, sometimes more than they can handle. Some have resorted to listening to audio codals (i.e., Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution, etc.) in their Mp3 players just to memorize.

The typhoons, including the ferocious ones, enter during the first semester. I am thinking if it would be better to move it to some other months, say, summer, when students would be least affected. The rainy season, and the flood, has become a constant problem to students.