Standing and Class
I guess our daughter really does stand out among her classmates. For the second time in less than a year she has been selected as student of the month. She overheard some of the teachers talking about it on Friday and gave me the news as we drove home. She wasn't bragging the way I do; she just mentioned it casually.
She also told me that her algebra class is an honors class, which I didn't realize, so I recomputed her grade point average for the semester. Only the semester grades are posted on the permanent record, so the semester works out with 7 A's and a single high B. With A's in her two honors classes, though, her g.p.a. still works out to be exactly 4.0.
So I am beginning to wonder about Cici's class standing now. She struggled last year at the beginning (if you can call earning all A's and B's struggling) but came on strong throughout the school year, finishing the year ranked 7th in her class. So with an almost perfect performance this past semester, I am curious about whether she climbed higher in the rankings. Did the six students who were ranked ahead of her also perform as well as as she performed? Somehow I doubt it. I think that Cici's selection of Student of the Month gives us a pretty good clue of how she performed vis a vis her classmates.
We are proud of all of her grades, but the English grade is the most surprising. Part of the final exam consisted of 150 objective questions that focused on vocabulary and grammar. We know that not all of the students did well on the test. Cici saw that one of her classmates had answered only 35 of the 150 questions correctly. Cici answered 135 of the questions correctly, which I suspect is about the best that anyone did on that part of the test. Maybe that is why her English teacher told us that Cici is amazing.
The girls were talking and laughing at the preparations they need to make in anticipation of going to China this summer. They counted the days they will be gone and said they need to buy and wash that many apples for me so I will have a clean apple to eat every day. They said they need to buy that many cups for my tea so that I won't have to wash anything while they are gone. They don't want me to use the disposable cups. But they can't cook that many beans and make that much rice for me and expect them to last while they are gone, so their backup plan is for me to stop and eat Vietnamese noodle soup every day.
But it is the clients who will suffer most. Ping won't be here to greet them and serve hot Chinese tea. The same is true of the group of business owners who meet here every two weeks as part of our marketing program. They have also grown accustomed to being spoiled by Ping. Even total strangers are delighted by Ping's presence. Sometimes, like yesterday, they come into our reception area just to ask questions and admire the decor. Yesterday the people who came in wanted to ask about the gu zheng, and wanted to take photos of it. Ping handles everyone with diplomacy and grace.
She also told me that her algebra class is an honors class, which I didn't realize, so I recomputed her grade point average for the semester. Only the semester grades are posted on the permanent record, so the semester works out with 7 A's and a single high B. With A's in her two honors classes, though, her g.p.a. still works out to be exactly 4.0.
So I am beginning to wonder about Cici's class standing now. She struggled last year at the beginning (if you can call earning all A's and B's struggling) but came on strong throughout the school year, finishing the year ranked 7th in her class. So with an almost perfect performance this past semester, I am curious about whether she climbed higher in the rankings. Did the six students who were ranked ahead of her also perform as well as as she performed? Somehow I doubt it. I think that Cici's selection of Student of the Month gives us a pretty good clue of how she performed vis a vis her classmates.
We are proud of all of her grades, but the English grade is the most surprising. Part of the final exam consisted of 150 objective questions that focused on vocabulary and grammar. We know that not all of the students did well on the test. Cici saw that one of her classmates had answered only 35 of the 150 questions correctly. Cici answered 135 of the questions correctly, which I suspect is about the best that anyone did on that part of the test. Maybe that is why her English teacher told us that Cici is amazing.
The girls were talking and laughing at the preparations they need to make in anticipation of going to China this summer. They counted the days they will be gone and said they need to buy and wash that many apples for me so I will have a clean apple to eat every day. They said they need to buy that many cups for my tea so that I won't have to wash anything while they are gone. They don't want me to use the disposable cups. But they can't cook that many beans and make that much rice for me and expect them to last while they are gone, so their backup plan is for me to stop and eat Vietnamese noodle soup every day.
But it is the clients who will suffer most. Ping won't be here to greet them and serve hot Chinese tea. The same is true of the group of business owners who meet here every two weeks as part of our marketing program. They have also grown accustomed to being spoiled by Ping. Even total strangers are delighted by Ping's presence. Sometimes, like yesterday, they come into our reception area just to ask questions and admire the decor. Yesterday the people who came in wanted to ask about the gu zheng, and wanted to take photos of it. Ping handles everyone with diplomacy and grace.
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