Stop. Take a Look. Think.

I let you guess. Is this sunrise or sunset?

Pretty right? Ok.. Actually, it's much more beautiful in real life than the picture. And it is sunrise... What I am trying to say here is that "Stop. Take a look. Think". We move too fast and rush over things in life.

Sometimes, we think that what we are doing is right or wrong. Is this my road or just a road I'm walking on? Is this road leading me to a good life? I guess most of us worry too much about "me" and missed out on the beauty of nature itself. Its effects are just breath taking.

God created nature for us to enjoy, for us to appreciate. Take a stroll on the beach and let His magnificent work sweeps you away. While you're doing that, think not of yourself but of how beautiful life can be. Frustration, stress.. all will just puffed away!

I spent the last day of my vacation to the beach sitting down on a swing under a tree, looking at the sunrise. I guess that moment is the time that I stopped thinking of myself and of all that I am worried about and just relax, have my breakfast under the tree with such magnificent view.

Spend a day or two away from all your work, your city life and away from all the things you should be worrying about. There's more to life than our career, our study life.

STOP... TAKE A LOOK... and THINK...

Mom enjoying the swing under the cottage..

Movie nights in the cottage, cinema style...

Memoirs of May

Since I got a 3 weeks holiday now, thought I better update my blog. ^^

Here's the activities that we had after the Practicum month and along the month of May:

Batch of 2007 Mini Olympic: We got 1st! :)

Celebrating the end of Practicum month as well as getting first in Mini Olympic

Before eating! All hyped up to eat the 44 pieces of KFC! XP

It was a pretty hectic month. Never the less, we still enjoyed it very much!...

before

END of the month = EXAM!! XD

Upcoming D-Day!

Since it's been a long time since my last update here, guess I'll need to write a thing or two.

Hm.. I'm just feeling doomed right now. =.=

D-day.. D-day.. Who the hell introduced the exam system?! xP

My semester exam starts next Wednesday and ends on the following Wednesday.

Aiyaya.. I am so lazy to devour all the thick notes into my brain.

I need to update my memory gig. xD

Positive thought: After exam, it's holiday!

After holiday, it's practicum week! Ok.. back to negative thought... +_+

Hahaha.. I'm talking crap now. =_=

Back to the notes then..

*Imagine me as a big pacman chomping five 10cm notes*

Sick

I've been sick for a week now...

I hate this feeling of being uncomfortable!!

Heal me soon!

=.="

Final Day of Practicum I

Yestarday was my last day of the four-weeks practicum. My 45 Year 5 students had touched my heart deeply. I went for the last hour of Mathematics class with them around 11:00am yesterday. As I opened the door, the room was dark and all I could see was empty tables and three lines of students at the back and a conductor. As I entered the class, they started to sing Auld Lang Syne in Bahasa version. My eyes were filling with tears but I managed not to drop one. I gave them a big applause after they had finished singing and joked about them trying to make me cry.

I continued teaching them Mathematics and on the last ten minutes, I gave them presents that I had prepared and managed to take photos with them. And by the time my lesson was up, my table was filled with presents. All of them approached me, asking for signature and phone number. I was thinking, I'm not a celebrity. I'm just a teacher. Yet, they're acting like I am one.

It was really difficult to leave that day. This devilish yet cute bunch of munchies had really put an impact on me in just a short period of time. I'm really gonna miss them. :(

The boys of my class

The girls of my class

And All Hell Broke Loose...

Earlier this morning, I had an hour session with my Year 5 students. Mathematics class.

I guess the one thing I did wrong.. very wrong is to teach-in their class the previous hour before my class.

It was a bit of a relaxation Mathematics session with some quizzes. When I start my lesson, all hell broke loose. My students seemed to be really hyped up and restless.

Time slowly passes by and they are getting more noisy. Slowly, I start to lose grip of controlling them.

And to make matter worse, my lecturer came in to observe unexpectedly!!

"Die! Die! Die!" are the only thing that goes through my mind at that moment.

The class noise level was getting worse every single minutes and at its peak when it was group work activity.

When my lecturer decided to leave early, I know my observation result would be disasterous!

And it did...

His note to me was:

I left early because I cannot stand the noise by your students. You lost grip of class control today and worse, some students are screaming when doing group activity. You better find a alternative way to control your student before my nect observation this Wednesday...

And I lost my voice.. Oh, man. I feel like jumping from Taipei 101 right now.. =_=

Practical Week 2

This is my second week of practical but it's also my first official week to teach some classes. Well, two classes to be exact.

On the first week, I was given a schedule of my classes. Seven periods of Mathematics classes with Year 5A and three periods of Physical Education with Year 2D. Before that, a brief explanation on the class grouping system in this school; there are five classes in each Year, ranging from A to D for Bahasa medium and one class for Chinese Medium. Class A being the best to Class D that consists of remedial students.

My first day with 45 of my Year 5 students was like "teaching to the walls". I guess this is because I'm still new to them and well.. let just say their devilish side have not unveil themselves. After few more days, I have accidentally found the key and unlocked heir devilish side. They were pretty naughty but n a good way. At least they listen to me when I'm teaching and I am impressed by how good they are and how fast they can catch up with my lesson.

My first day with my Year 2 students on the other hand was a disaster! Controlling 35 students was a pain in the neck for me. Throughout the hour, I was shouting non-stop and nearly broke my voice box. And to top it up, my lecturer was supposed to observe me during my Mathematics class the hour right after. My mentor had to help me to control them to avoid any casualites. =.="

When I went to the staff room, most of the teachers was laughing at me as my shouting was so loud, some of them heard me all the way from the staff room. Gosh~ I should have taken it more seriously when they said that class is hard to control.

Now that the week had ended, I look forward to a day of relaxation before starting the new week. I need to get a hold of how to control my Year 2 students before they break my voice box permanently. xP