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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
`Leen Teacher Day

wow! I'm a teacher today!

Suppose to meet wai man at tiong bahru today at 11am to discuss about the project he has that requires my help. But last night at 11pm+ he received a call from Arnold saying he need 2 person to help as relief teacher tomorrow at a special school, Grace Orchard School. First thing wai man call me, at first i don't want to take up the job but after some discuss we decided to go for it. ^^v

We meet Arnold 7am at boon lay mrt and he bring us there. Can say we are very lucky get to 'sit' his car LOLS! Reached there we are introduced to a lady and she guide us. Initially we thought only one class need a relief teacher so both of us will relief one class together. BUT that lady said we will take different classes! Which means we will take one class for the day ourself. We were like OMG la! One person take one class. We both have ZERO experience in teaching. So scary you know.. my class is girls and boys of 13yrs old+ and waiman class is all boys of 15yrs old+. Total of 10 students for me and 7 or 8 students for waiman.

Kinda enjoy when they greet me good morning. Just imagine you stand in front of the class introduce yourself to them and say good morning and whole class will greet you together. woohoo! shiok! haha xD I actually feel like i'm so OLD =.= but i'm only like 5 yrs older than them lo

First lesson is PE. WHAT THE...... Arnold ask us to wear formal but all the teachers there are all in sports attire ROAR! then PE how you expect me to play with them when i'm wearing heels huh HUH?!? somemore they are suppose to play baseball game today. BALL!! OMG i'm so worried the ball will fly to me la ROAR!! Really have no idea what to do. Have to recall what my teacher usually do and apply to them. Its really not easy.. The kids don't really listen to me and its very hard to keep their attention. In the end the girls don't want to play baseball game so the guys play soccer. Bring them back to class and i find something for them to do.

Second lesson is English. Before that i make them introduce themselves to me. Everyone have to stand up and tell me their name, birthday and hobbies. More then half of them is Malay and i was having difficulty in reading their names. This is indeed a very good way for time to past. Started the English lesson after that. Gave them each a grammar worksheet to be completed in class. Try to be a good teacher, i explain and explain and explain. Two words: "That" and "Those", Singular and Plural. Got one student just sit down there stare into space and refuse to do the worksheet. I seriously don't know how to deal with him. Then suddenly he gave me a small note with his hp number and ask me to call him. *stunned* i look at him and said "if you don't do your work i won't call you, so if you want me to call you, come and sit down do your work" So of course he guai guai do his work la! LOLS..

Next is recess time. Meet waiman and chat cause we don't want to eat anything. 30mins break so fast over! Next lesson is Computer lesson. They bring me to the computer lab. I realise they are still using window98. Teach them how to go to internet, yahoo.com, to search for information then copy and paste the information into a powerpoint slide.

Last lesson is Chinese. They have their chinese teacher and i just need to hang around and help them on their work. Making of teacher day card for their teacher. LOLs..

Finally 12.30pm! my job is done! Students are release and so am i ^^v happy happy.. Its raining very very heavy outside and we have no idea how to go back. Make our way to the nearest bus stop and a kind teacher of the school gave us some information. We know bus 240 can go back to boon lay interchange but we have to cross over the another side. but the rain so heavy and we only got 1 umbrella. If we go over we will be all wet. So in the end decided to take the 240 and go round the loop. It took us 1hr to reach boon lay interchange =.=

We went to Jurong point Pizza hut for lunch. Waiman's treat. ^^v

Had baked rice.. yummy~! He tell me more about the project that he is currently doing and I'll be helping him in the design and user interface. Many things to consider. After disucssion we walk around JP and then he accompany me to go pet shop to buy pet food and then go home.

Its really a very very wonderful day.. wonderful experience.. wonderful time together.. wanna thank Arnold for the opportunity given to us =) Its priceless!!! xD


Juz LeeN ♥ 11:16 PM