Friday, September 21, 2007

I survived!!!!

School term started this week. After few weeks of easy life, it was really tough to get my engine started again. I am assigned three classes of year 1 to teach. My teaching days are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Sianz man...i rather siong siong three days consecutively and then relac for the next two days. Sigh...wat to do?

Started my first class on a very jittery note. i came well prepared with notes on how to mark attendance, how to publish problem, worksheets and resources. My notes were so structured. After this step, what must i do etc. I had a first day buddy too (sounds like some primary one student hor? except that I am actually the teacher). He said i was too focused on completing my task that i became too mechanical and cautious during the first meeting (Oh, the class is structured in such a way that we have 3 meetings, 2 breakout sessions). So for the second meeting, I threw away my prepared notes and just go with the flow. It was much better.

Second class started off on a good note. Students were responsive and we had a good session. Third class was almost mechanical already. But asking questions to facilitate their understanding was tough.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

My office retreat

Day 1
Last Monday, we had a 2D retreat for my centre. The first day was at Pulau Ubin. Check out those pics. It was a wet but fun day.

The kampung house where we spend our morning at

Pretty pinkies

Dunno what berries these are but they look so cute!

The female spider that gobbles up its mate...black widow

Rambutan tree...pity we did not get to see the durian trees

Gathering the herbs that we need for our cooking later


Cooking demo

Our very powderful sambal...so sedap!

Nasi Kerabu and our chicken wings

It's ice kachang time

The end product *Burp

Day 2

Our director cooking up a storm. Treated us to breakfast.


Banana crepes...courtesy of our director. I forgot to take a pic of the burger that was done by him too.


Tucking in to my burger...egg, cheese, beetroot, pineapple...yummy

Meow Meow



Pretty pink guitars


Blue kitty car which I spotted on my way to work on Monday morning