135. I've talked of our annoying teacher from my previous blog entry and now I have decided to talk about another memorable teacher we've had- the religion teacher. I've often wondered how other people would react to her, perhaps as negatively as we've imagined. After all, she was too 'sarado catolico' in her beliefs that the class had usually bordered on the scary. Strangely enough, I liked her. Perhaps because I had been to a strict all-girl Catholic high school so I was already used to some Christians being all too fervent. We remembered how she practically told us that people from other religions will 'go to hell', so repent, convert or else there will be hell fire, brimstone and all. What was worse was that since she was almost at a retirement age, was that she had memory lapses every now and then and tended to repeat herself. She promised you in front of the class that she'd award you with bonus recitation points but told you to remind her the next week. When you did remind her she accused you of lying to her face not once but twice. After much argument she gave you the points but didn't bother to apologize for embarrassing you in front of the class. Soon, almost every one just fell silent and didn't bother to speak against her or comment about anything she did or said inaccurately because it just became worse. Besides, she may have just taken it out on our grades. This way, everything became smoother since she thought all of us seemingly agreed with everything she said. Her teaching- methods were rigorous and stiff and conservative and ordinary; one would never guess how she was like a dictator in her beliefs. It's amazing how close-minded some people are. I wonder if they even realize that they are putting people off with those inconsiderate words. No wonder there are extremists in this world.
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