Tuesday, March 30, 2010

i am on mc

this is the 5th week of my practicum. and today is my first day on mc. hopefully it will be the last too. honestly i dun like to take mc. it gives teachers and students the impression that i am weak. i am definitely not weak, but this cough has been bugging me for weeks, and yesterday the cough became really bad that i raised both arms and surrender. i really need a day of rest.

tomorrow i am excited because the P is observing my pe lesson! i will be teaching handball to this sec 3 express class. hopefully he will like the lesson, and even like the sport, which will enhance my chance of being released for the handball yog.

my P is very on the ball, very academic oriented, and also... humorous. yesterday during morning assembly, he told the whole school that some of the students are behaving as clowns, which shows no respect for the school. so he is paying special attention to this group of students, and he will go hard on them.

and here comes the quote of the day (i am getting influenced by shumin after reading her blog), from the P himself:

IF YOU GUYS WANT TO BE THE JOKER, I WILL BE THE BATMAN

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i wonder if the students heard this, because the AVA system was down, and he was addressing the whole school using the loudhailer.

students are a funny bunch. some of them are really nice, and when you teach them, you are full of energy and very willing to impart all your knowledge. but there are some jokers who will zap away your energy, and at the end of the lesson you will be like half dead after all the scolding.

let's hope the batman put these jokers behind bars.

ok i just realised that i did not do a memory flash back. last week during assembly, the ava club did a photo slide show on the memories back in the old tampines school and bedok holding school. and wow i appeared in two of the photos, despite not being there for two years!

so here goes, my own version:

i like this pic alot. this pic appeared in the slide show during assembly. everyone is still here, except for the enormous guy, second from the left, who was my VP. he went to the states to study his masters. the chinese guy in white bermudas on my left is not here too. he was my HOD PE at that time, now teaching at anglican high.

at the old tampines sch canteen, when we were having staff bonding session. we get to decorate our own cake with whipped cream, fruits, nuts and chocolates! it was quite fun. haha. dun ask me why my partner is the chinese teacher from china.

teacher's day celebration in 2007! taught this class chemistry and pe.

cca exchange day 2007. it was supposed to be students teaching students. but my students were shy so i had to teach instead. grrrrrr...

cca day 2008, in the holding sch. all the ccas set up booths to attract (or should i say bluff) the sec 1 blurries to join.

this has to be the proudest moment of my life. i am being tasked to give the o level results to one of the graduating classes, when i am just a contract teacher. their form teacher was on maternity leave. their co-form teacher was doing reservist. since the form was my mentor, the other subject teachers have their own stuff, and i got teach that class before, i am being chosen to give the result slips. haha.

during one of the assemblies, when i am being sabohed on stage to dance. so i sabohed some of my colleagues and students. hahahaha. this was very fun, the atmosphere was good and everyone was laughing happily.

my solo wushu performance on stage during cny celebrations.

sch carnival. my class sold donuts! the handsome man beside me was my form. i was the co-form.

twinning program with surabaya. during the june holidays we went over to surabaya. in july the surabaya students came here.

my last day in sch, before i went to nie for the two years of heaven. this is my godsister who sat behind me in the office. not teaching here anymore. she is now at xin min. and she just opened a blogshop selling baby clothes!

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ok that's about it. hope that i will have a pleasant teaching experience in the new school compound.

i noticed something. i am being tagged as the pe teacher, the wushu teacher and the handsome teacher, by both students and colleagues.

i am not kidding about the handsome part! yesterday i was doing relief in a sec 1 class, and then the monitor suddenly say out loud in front of the whole class because he is sitting in front:"老师,你真的很帅."

*rolls eyeballs*

and then i dismissed the students at the end of the lesson. a boy said to me:"cher, that girl like you alot."

then i turn my head to where he is pointing, and a girl was standing there with the attendance book, blushing.

*rolls eyeballs 2nd time*

but i still signed the attendance book.

the girl said "thank you cher" meekly and ran off.