邱旭泉
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Teaching day 3
Today was the third day i taught at Sri Cempaka International School as a music teacher, and i`m liking it so far! :)
Today I woke up pretty earlohsorry late.. haha.. well.. initially i planned to wake up at 6.45 and leave home together with my sister at 7.20am so we could go for breakfast at hen kee before heading to work. BUT......
*alarm rings*
*wakes up.. hits the snooze button.. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
*alarm rings again*
*hits the snoozeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
*alarm rings yet again*
*snzzzzzzzz*
*alarm rings for the last time.. it was around 7.10*
*thinks in my head.. "late ad......... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
*silence....*
*thinks in my head "hmm... somethings not right..." checks time......*
7.15am..
oh my goodness.... lol.. so much for breakfast at hen kee... haha.. in the end we left home at 7.45.. and went to mc donalds drive through and bought sausage mc muffins..
well.. i went to school as usual.. not knowing that it was actually teachers day, untill i had my first class at 10.20am where this boy kok yong comes up to me and say "teacher!!! happy teachers day!!" hehe.. so cute.. well.. i said thank you.. and the day went on.. and eventually i managed to forget that it was teachers day halfway through teaching.. haha.. seriously.. i forgot that it was teachers day even though this boy has already wished me happy teachers day. And in the end i was reminded that it was teachers day once again by this girl (which i can`t remember her name..) who came up to me while i was talking to one of the permanent teacher, wished me "happy teachers day" and in the same time saying "teacher, this one for you" *hands me a muffin/cupcake*.. :D how cute is that! haha.. boy was i surprised and happy.. :) so.. yea.. the picture you see above, is the cupcake/muffin my student gave me.. i really must remember this girl`s name.. i know she`s from the year 5 as i taught that class vocal lessons (the ones where we play musical games and all sorts), but i don`t seem to remember her name.. lol.. i`m bad at names.. well talking about names, i managed to remember a few today! :)
There was this boy Kok Yang, from year 1 Mozart. Somehow he seems to me like one boy i will remember easily.. haha.. Very outspoken boy. He was the first to come up to me and ask my name even before class started.
Then there`s this girl (also from year 1 Mozart) which in my previous post i said she kept saying "Teacher, you mark so small wan.. hehehehehe" where ever we meet and i will reply "yes yes.. now getting bigger already..." haha! Her name is Cheryl Chin, apparently she`s "twins" with this other girl in the class Rachel (but they`re not blood related). Reason why? They say the previous teachers kept mixing them up as they look quite alike. haha! But this girl, Cheryl, reminds me of my cousin Zian. Seriously!! I must take a photo of this girl and show my cousin! haha :D
Then there`s this boy Chean Ang (i think his last name is ang.. can`t really remember.. but i definitely remember the Chean, cause i had a hard time figuring it out discreetly.. haha!) from year 1 Beethoven. He`s a bit naughty. Likes to kacau this other boy behind him and i kept telling him to look infront and sit properly and stop disturbing the other boy and so on. lol! He keeps looking at me.. really don`t know why.. haha.. well.. i hope i wont be too garang with him till he`s afraid of me.. :)
Talking about 'garang', today was the first time i showed my "garang-ness" to the students. It was my second and last class for the day, year 1 Beethoven, and rumours has it that this class comparing with 1 Mozart, 1 Beethoven is the "devil class" and 1 Mozart is the "angelic class".. haha.. true enough, they were horrible! noisy bunch of kids! haha.. so things got out of hand, i had to raise my voice a bit louder to show authority (cheh wah.. haha =p ) and scolded the class. lol! my first time with them and i had to shout at them.. hmm... oh well.. hopefully they wont see me as the garang teacher or any of that sort.. i really like it when i`m close to the kids.. seriously.. it`s a feeling i can`t express.. haha :) it`s just... well.. unexplainable :)
There`s this one girl, also from year 1 Beethoven, with a very interesting name. Coco. How cool is that man! haha.. :) well, i remember her name cos of the ammount of times i see her name. She finishes her worksheet super fast man! when the other kids were still doing worksheet 1, she already finished 2 worksheets and doing the 3rd worksheet at the same time. =.='' too geng already.. haha..
Oh wells, pretty good day for me! :) Highlight of the day was receiving two "happy teachers day" wishes and a cupcake/muffin from one of the students.. :)
2 things again to learn:
1. More musical games (if any of you have or know any, please do let me know!)
2. Remembering students names (any tips?)
Cheerios ;)
posted by Mattster at 12:36 AM
3 Comments:
so cute the muffin.. and did you put it on your bed and take a picture of it? on your bed?!?! tsk tsk tsk....
yea lo/... is it on bed huh?
haha, happy teachers day~!
sounds like fun ! :D
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