Thursday, January 18, 2007
More blabber
Finally a breather... and here's some love for my poor, neglected blog. -muack- Especially to all of you who still check in here now and then... Cos it means that you are thinking of me! (Even though you're bored and just happen to click on my link... it still shows that I appeared in your mind!) And if you don't remember who I am... well, at least you'll be thinking of me! Hahah!
So how has life been for me?
It's been a rush... mostly school. I feel like my home is akin to a hotel room, where I return to shower, laze on the bed to read, and snuggle under the covers (yeah, the last few nights have been rather cooling...). Then when the alarm rings, I shower, gulp down a glass of water, and I'm out of the house, ready to face the day. (Well, even if I'm not ready, I'll still have to face it!)
But I've been coping well. Getting to know my kids more and bonding with them, adapting to my workload, training my ODAC kids, familarising myself with Canoeing as a CCA, trying to contribute to the committee that I'm in, opening my appetite for more work to be shove down my throat and all. Heh.
Yeah, as Kel told me not too long ago... I should get used to the fact that I have a FULL-TIME job, and not a HALF-DAY job! (But I start at 725am everyday!!) I miss those times when I could go swimming everyday, have good lunches ot tea and meet friends in the evenings! Now I end around 6pm each day, and 7-8pm on CCA days, and my Saturdays are burnt too! Where to find time to play badminton with church kakis and pure fren on Sundays when that's my only day for recuperation?
But despite all my whining, I am actually still alive, and like these buzz of things going around me which I have to do. Yeah, sadistic hor? But I guess this is what teaching really is? There's a whole amalgation of things waiting for us to do, and you can't say you don't wanna do any of it! Heh.
I've been toying with the idea of putting an advertisement up for an assistant! Hahaha! The renumeration will be some feeding from time to time! Hahaha! But I've decided against it cos I can't decide what work to distribute to her! Not teaching definitely, not CCA, not the preparation for class, not the thought processes put into the planning, to some extent not the admin either cos I want to know my students (and sometimes redundant, mundane admin can be a therapy), and not the marking cos I want to know how my students are developing. So... I guess the offer is off.
Yeah. Ok, byebye...
So how has life been for me?
It's been a rush... mostly school. I feel like my home is akin to a hotel room, where I return to shower, laze on the bed to read, and snuggle under the covers (yeah, the last few nights have been rather cooling...). Then when the alarm rings, I shower, gulp down a glass of water, and I'm out of the house, ready to face the day. (Well, even if I'm not ready, I'll still have to face it!)
But I've been coping well. Getting to know my kids more and bonding with them, adapting to my workload, training my ODAC kids, familarising myself with Canoeing as a CCA, trying to contribute to the committee that I'm in, opening my appetite for more work to be shove down my throat and all. Heh.
Yeah, as Kel told me not too long ago... I should get used to the fact that I have a FULL-TIME job, and not a HALF-DAY job! (But I start at 725am everyday!!) I miss those times when I could go swimming everyday, have good lunches ot tea and meet friends in the evenings! Now I end around 6pm each day, and 7-8pm on CCA days, and my Saturdays are burnt too! Where to find time to play badminton with church kakis and pure fren on Sundays when that's my only day for recuperation?
But despite all my whining, I am actually still alive, and like these buzz of things going around me which I have to do. Yeah, sadistic hor? But I guess this is what teaching really is? There's a whole amalgation of things waiting for us to do, and you can't say you don't wanna do any of it! Heh.
I've been toying with the idea of putting an advertisement up for an assistant! Hahaha! The renumeration will be some feeding from time to time! Hahaha! But I've decided against it cos I can't decide what work to distribute to her! Not teaching definitely, not CCA, not the preparation for class, not the thought processes put into the planning, to some extent not the admin either cos I want to know my students (and sometimes redundant, mundane admin can be a therapy), and not the marking cos I want to know how my students are developing. So... I guess the offer is off.
Yeah. Ok, byebye...
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 1:00 PM 
