Sunburnt on Sunday, February 19, 2006
Yesterday was as usual a mentoring day for me. Arriving at the primary school, I realised we were short of mentors. However, I juz had to make do with it and continue to go around asking the studens to take out their homework or whatever assignments they had been tasked to do. I was pretty fed up with the boys. The gals were quietly taking out their stuff to do while the boys were goofing around, playing a fool, refusing to bulge when i ask them to do work. One of them even insisted in playing computer games. Most of the time even if they were doing something, it was of perfunctory nature. Doing for the sake of doing...
Ya in the end i did shout at them, but i simply can't bring myself to really punish, or really manifest that evil side of me. Once it's being unleashed, thats it.
One of this boys, Kai Wee, slammed the door and went out in solitude after countless rejects in his "proposal" to play the computer games. He gave me reasons like "my house don't have any computers, i haven't been playing computers for a long time". After Liang Qiao went out to talk to him, he came back, and automatically went to switch on the computer.
I can't stand it. I walked right up to him, switched off the monitor and asked him:"Who says u can play the computer? You want to test me if i can release your name to your teacher is it?"
He retored:"Oh liang qiao says i can play wat, you don't believe you go ask him!"
I went out of the classroom, verified with Liang Qiao, and then stormed right up to him again and switch off his monitor again.
I shouted at him "You don't come and lie to him you understand? Liang Qiao says no.Go back to you seat now." I grabbed him by his arms and pulled him to his seat. Irritating piece of worthles shit.(**censored**)
By the time the session was done, wanted to ask Linda for lunch since she is nearby at Emmanuel House. In the end that xiao ja bor dun wan and since i wanted to go National Library i thought angel might want to go. Coincidently , she also wanted to go there to forage for her SS research materials. We went to L7 and then 11, then back to basement. The basement ,Central Lending Library, was freaking packed with people, in comparison to that tranquility you can find in those reference levels at the top.
After that we went Bugis for some early dinner, then went to Bras Basah Popular to take a look at he P4 Sci textbook coz i am teaching one P4 guy this sunday..and few blocks from my house somemore..yeappie.
I was perusing the Sunday Times and the news feature of today is "Your child's tutor may have duped you."
Kaozzz...duped...ma chiam putting drug inside your drink to "dupe" you like that.
I guess i wasn't silly after all. Why i say that. I remember my first lesson with my p4 girl on maths, i showed my matric card and my Bp mentoring booklet to her mother. Some of my frens thought that was a bit too "extra". Considering the advices provided in the newspaper article today, parents nownot only distrust tutors, but also the agents themselves. The article mentioned that some of the tutors were encouraged by the agents to lie about their tutoring background and grades. The latter being something that is morally unethical. I agree with a parent who argues that sometimes it's not about them trusting the tutor too much that they seldom made checks on them, it's because if they are really not "there" yet, it can be quite revealing in their teaching.
Now i am in a semi-panicky mode. There are so many "what ifs and what if nots" running through my mind. What if the parent wanted to supervise my teaching? For your info, the stratis times actually encourage the parents to do that. I can't teach with people staring at me teaching. I deserve some basic respect. Not that i am unempathetic about their concern for their children. Juz weird.
Last night finally draft out my essay outline for my SS. By the time i was done it was 1am. This morning my little brother woke me up and asked me wanted to do down for breakfast or not. I was really drained of energy yet it was one miracle that he actually asked me to go down for breakfast. I thought he will be glu-ing his eyes to the monitor screen which he is doing now. So i dragged myself to go down lor.
Monday is my industrial visit to PSA and also my ISE family day...tuesday is my working day with Irene at SGX centre, wednesday visit ngee ann with linda, SHIT...where got time for position paper discussion...SHIT...sian.
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