eating ants???

we had a short meeting today and there were green peas+banana porridge for everyone..me being the usual me, the one who drolls over green peas porridge quickly got myself a bowl of that delicious looking porridge..half way eating and listening to the principal talking at the same time, the teacher next to me told me that she found many ants in her porridge..i quickly looked closely into my porridge and found a few..God knows how many of them had gone into my nice tummy..oh please don't let any..i wouldn't mind if there were just small ants..but they were huge red ants..me n arab quickly stopped eating..i couldn't even stand looking at some of the ants that i managed to find..gosh it was such a terrible experience..

the same with the 4 sc class..we were still discussing bout the 'he had such quiet eyes poem'. and it so happened that most of them didn't have much to talk about and kept waiting for me to pour info at them..lucky lately i like to crap much..so today they got all sort of crappy info and advice from me..lucky for them and me i supposed..gosh i really like to relate my teaching to real life that i think they would think that i crapped too much..sometimes the examples i gave in class sound so ridiculous..even i couldn't help myself from smirking..but of course i said it with much confidence that the students fell for it all the time..i remembered telling the form 2 students last year during geography that Merotai (a rural area in tawau) will be a town in 10 years time..some of them even told the other teacher about it that i had to explain to those teachers that i was just joking..anyway that is my way of having fun in class..

lack d creativity

just got out from the 4sc class..i was teaching them the same thing that i taught form 4a just now..we were brainstorming about playboy for the poem he had such quiet eyes..then after hearing their responses, i realised they lack the creativity as compared to 4a..i don't know why..could it be that they were just too serious to give playful answers (but some of them were quite crazy, really) or maybe they were just too little of them..there were only 14 students in that class, which was quite small number if to be compared with the 30 students in 4a..so i couldn't really blame them..

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Busy day..

STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!

i just heard from the other teachers that the new principal is very strict..i'm just going to die at this instance..a strict person just going to put a lot of pressure to me..meaning STRESS..hopefully not cos i'm quite comfortable right now..
But still i need to finish a few things just in case he wants to check stuff especially the panel file..i'm still in the process of writing the strategic plan..i haven't even finished writing the minute..oh man..i haven't even finished writing my lesson plan for this week..now i just have to finish everything tonight or maybe this weekend..hopefully i can finish it all..

another thing is the Form 5 problem..gosh i think there's a curse with that name 'form 5'..this year students are slowing turning like the form 5 students last year..so hard to deal with..today i asked them to present the component from THE PEARL..the end product was rather a disappointment as they couldn't explain properly..but at least they tried..hopefully they will survive..i just don't know how to make them use the English frequently..i thought by asking them to make presentation they will be ok..but then it was the opposite..some were just not into presentation that they refuse to talk or talk as less as possible..I need more ideas..i really want to help them..

am i supposed to stay??

this is weird..i'm staying back at school cos i thought i'm supposed to attend the PPIM meeting..though i'm only the 3rd advisor, yet the other day they said that they need all the advisors to stay at school since there are many members..

But today suddenly at around 3..the 1st advisor asked me do i want to stay..and of course i said yes to her since i already stayed at school..but then was she saying that i actually have a choice whether to stay or not?

i'm really confused.cos to be honest i don't wanna stayback today.i rather be at home and sleeping than staring at this laptop..

gosh i really wanna go back..but it's raining so heavily that i don't think i can even step out of the school building..i don't even bring my red umbrella..shoot!

the brain specialist

Teaching science in form 4 just now..i was supposed to teach brain complexity and the endocrine system but due to time constraint, i only managed to finish the brain complexity..

there were lots of explaining and questions just now..suddenly i became like a brain specialist..typical of them..when i thought them bout reproductive system last year, they were treating me like a gynecologist..they always think that i have the answer to everything.

But then since i'm so used to them, i just gave them answers that could shut them up..but then there were questions that i really couldn't answer like "teacher, cane kepala bley benjol? cane benjol bley jadi?" now that's just beyond me. i never study that. so i just told them i dunno..somehow that shut them up too..

Anyway, i kept trying to contextualise the lesson like bringing in stephen hawking, that old superman actor, is it christopher reese? i'm not sure..but they seemed to enjoy it..though i spent the whole 40 minutes just talking and crapping..and most importantly nobody sleep..should be consider successful rite..but i need more time for science, really..1 period a week is just not enough!!

Teaching or Just Sharing Experience?

I was teaching the new poem this week 'He Had Such Quiet Eyes'. Such a straight forward poem I must say. And it shocked me a bit when the students couldn't understand it though they had read it and find the meaning of certain words that they didn't understand. So in the end I had to explain it to them in a much simpler terms. By using them as example..

Basically we spent 80 mins talking about "casanova". Listing on how they work their charms and why girls still fall for them..So weird..But they seemed to enjoy it so much especially the girls. Some boys defended themselves saying that they were once cheated by girls "playgirl"..So in the end, we concluded that Girls are often cheated by casanova who makes the girl feels needed and sweet talker. and Boys are cheated by seductive playgirl..

After the class ended, I wasn't sure whether I was teaching them or we were just talking crap the whole time..While we were discussing, one of the students did say "Teacher I think we are heading to the wrong direction" but I went ahead and told him that we were at the right track..though I was a bit unsure..But at least I think they understand the poem better now..

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truly,

Hannah..