yoz everyone i am back!
i was telling everyone that i dread going for the camp, but the moment i step into the sch, i totally lost that dreaded feeling. its been about 3 weeks since i last went to sch, and i do feel a sense of belonging... i also dunno how to explain, but it is just purely happiness in my heart that i am back.
and then when i see my kids, and their sian faces, a great sense of responsibility came into me, telling me that i as a teacher, its my duty to make this camp fun for them and to make them feel more at home, so they wun feel that sian.
actually this camp is for the obese kids in my sch. throughout this 3 days 2 nights camp, we plan a strict exercise regime for them, together with a well-planned diet, hoping that they will shed a few kilos. at the end of the camp, if they are at their ideal weight, we will happily kick them out of the obese club, and they are definitely more happy than us to be kicked out.
during the first day of the camp, i was out for the whole afternoon, because i went to n_i_e for registration. saw quite alot of familiar faces. i saw pple from my chem major batch, i saw a few of my jc friends, and i even saw someone from reservist.
i also get to see my future course mates. alot of them look really sporty, and fit. and the way they talk, they walk, or the way they carry themselves, got an air of aura. they give pple the impression that they are very zai, or they are outstanding sports players, or some of them may even be from the national team. well, i shall see for myself wat kind of true calibre they have. you can play sports very well, doesnt mean you can teach well. even if you can teach well, you must control the class well. imagine at the start of the pe lesson, half of the class nv bring pe attire, and come out with silly excuses, wat will you do? imagine when you are leading the class for warm up, then suddenly, the group of boys behind start playing with one another, and then start fighting, wat will you do?
thanks to my one year of experience doing contract teaching, i had seen alot of worst-case scenarios, and i thankfully had survived through most of them.
when i went back to sch, its already dinner time. and there were a few casualty rates already. one of them was sick, and has to go home. another one got rashes all over his arms and legs. the last one, is a bit hard to handle. he is scared of staying overnight because he saw a ghost previously, which was in january. and he was crying like mad when he was describing to me wat happened and wat he saw. i myself had heard ghost stories about the sch. if you ask me whether do i believe in ghosts, my ans will be 宁可信其有，不可信其无. even after so much pacifying, he still refused to stay overnight, so bo bian lor, he will go back home to sleep. haiz.
seeing his behaviour also make me a bit scared of staying overnight. haha. but i still stayed anyway. me and another two colleagues went for supper at blk 85. its been dunno how many months since i went there to eat. we ordered chicken wings, carrot cake and bbq stingray. damn shiok. it was already one am when we finished our supper, and we slept at the office. nothing extraordinary happened. =p
ok lah, nothing much for me to talk about the camp. just that i think the kids are damn shag, because they have nv worked out so much in one whole day. but i think they enjoyed themselves. especially for the Amazing Race which is held at east coast park on the second day of the camp. i cycled alot and nearly got leg cramps. =p
btw east coast park got a damn nice place called bougainvilla park! its like a flower garden, with flowers of different nice colours! i will bring darling there one day!
