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day 4 of school...
din do much... serious stuff only being sitting in mr tan's tutorial, going for lecture and my klass S212... am very happy with my klass really... unlike me... they werent simply sitting down and copying answers i give... but were instead... questioning me... debating their point of view... best part... i din have to answer them... some other students even offered to defend my point for me... it was so great... so spontaneous... that we continued 15 mins after the lesson... until we got chased out by the next klass... i think we got carried away... also becoz i wanted to finish up the stuff i needed to finish... and guess what... after klass... i had at least 4 students waiting in line along the corridor to ask me questions... man was i surprised... coz good thing and bad... good that they want to know and learn... bad that my lesson not comprehensive enough... luckily i could answer them... and though i couldnt manage to express my idea to one of them... i think he walked away pretty satisfied as well... i like this klass... truly... and S208 too, of course... but this klass... was fantastic... i had pple helping other pple, explaining concepts to one another... discussions that involved all of them... most importantly... they werent simply copying answers... eyes fixated on their papers... but instead... they were into it... in the flow... i felt good... that i might have just sparked an interest in them in chem... am proud of some of my students... esp shaowei today... was an arts student in the first 3 mths... and is working very very hard now... finished the present tutorial already... so i'm really glad... wanyu's noisy in klass... but at least she knows how to get serious and clarify doubts with me after the lesson... if i were them i'd probably rush home the first chance i get... am starting to get more names into my head... which is good... met my other students after my lesson today... recognised joel... coz i mentioned he had the joel face... he was with another student but i couldnt reg him... felt bad... but he was worse... he din address me as "ms lim"... but called me "stephanie lim"... wu gui... i remember him now... he had better be ready for questioning next lesson... i felt this sense of satisfaction when shaowei said, "thank you, ms lim" today... how to describe.... but its like a tug near your heart... and you feel great... i guess this is how teaching is rewarding... i hope everything remains this way... dont think i will consider taking up teaching as a real profession... am too short on patience and am pretty emotional/sensitive a person... if my students decide to hate me... i'll probably be so affected i wont be able to sleep... am only enjoying this now becoz my klasses really rock... went to take my final theory test today... all the way at queenstown... went with rene... test was ok... but i din study... so alot of tikam tikam... which i think might get wrong... just praying... like raymond said.. better to pretend i am going to fail... then be happy when i do pass... than think i'm gonna pass... and get disappointed when i fail... ate with rene at the coffeeshop... at good yong tau foo.. meeting the bballers on sun... for mahjong and dinner... will be good to see them... miss them... even when i have jas and stella N working with me liaoz... serene's promoting manhattan credit cards... hehe... made 6 deals so far... happy for her.... finally i see her growing up and earning her keep... we alwaz scold her for not taking herself seriously... so people who wanna get free spa vouchers and free mp3 and watever player with charges to your credit card... tag me... i'll get her to contact you... muahhaha... but you have to earn > $30 000 per annum ya? sleepy today... worked really really hard... was in the work room most of the time... and when i wasnt in there... i was planning my lessons... only times i stepped into the pantry was to fill my water bottles... note the use of pural... even jas called me water barrel... was losing my voice by the end of the lesson... gosh... i hope i'l survive next week... am having more than twice the number of lessons this week... jas' worse off... she's relieving 2 teachers... i'm only doing one... the irony of it all... managed to escape work coz of work... reason why i din get more lessons was coz i was away on lesson... so they cant get my timetable... muahhahaha... ciaoz... wanna see who gets eliminated tonight... on American Idol! ----Stef stopped rambling at 21:54 --Link to Post |
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