"Who is a ZPD?" (Blog diary #6 - 28/9/2025)

I'll be honest with you, throughout summer I DREADED for autumn to come. And don't you dare get me wrong! I love autumn! The romantic feeling it gives, the coziness and cooling of the season, celebrations of harvests, halloween and then the so called velu time, perhaps one week per year view of orange trees, and else whatnot! The reason I dreaded it is because well, I was uncertain of which school I'd end up it, so far it's the good ending. And that's cool. So now I can tell you how my first month went.

In a way, autumn can be categorised in terms maiden, mother and crone. It's a time of transformation of something full of life to absence of it. But not just that, it's not quite a lifetime per se, it's rather to show change from period of a circle, not a line. From first twinges of leaves rusting to first cold winds would be the maiden, falling of leaves is mother, and the crone is grey trees and first frosts. It's just that I find this fascinating how big of a spectrum is autumn. September to me was quite... well, first month back was a small reintroduction that is only continuing on for a while... perhaps forever.

I've actually been quite focused on studying and doing work that needs to be done, suspiciously maayybe a bit more effectively than few others. It's OKAY, hypothetically I can finish secondary school and flee to university. The THING however is that I don't have this thing called SUPER-RESEARCH-PROJECT-THAT-EVERY-SECONDARY-SCHOOLER-SHOULD-DO™Which, in my old school, we would have started, IN 11TH GRADE. This school starts doing it in 10TH GRADE? So you could imagine my near heart-attack feeling when during a break some classmate walks in class and the teacher asks "Wait, didn't you need [this research] for you SRPTESSSD topic, right?" and during like, the randomest instances someone mentions their topic. WHEN DID YOU DO THIS? And don't worry, our class's teacher also had come to me and asked what am I doing for it. I said, honestly, that nothing like that had been EVER disclosed in the den of snakes I was at. But she seemed relaxed about it and said "But you can draw and [insert something about extra courses in 12th grade]" Aye, ok. What

I'll see how I manage things. Really, I wanna tell about more but I'm REALLY hyped for halloween season and deem my academics/social life much different from my cultural life. So I may as well write some fun things I could plan for october.