I realised I don’t read a lot. I’ve always known that but it never really hit me because I didn’t really care. But yesterday after going for a seminar, I read the reading list that my students will be reading when they reach level E and then I realised that many of the books listed I’ve never even heard. There’s one that caught my eye. It’s called Bunnicula. So cute. I know it’s about a rabbit. But at first I thought maybe it could be some mystical creature who’s half a bunny and half a dracula. So cute lah… When I was my students’ age, I never read. I only watched TV. I LOVE the TV. I can remember a lot of the shows I watched since young.
Well, I think teaching is good for me. It motivates me to learn more and to start reading more. haha…. It’s better late than never right?
Yesterday I was talking to a friend. She was telling me that back in those days when she was studying, she never thought of working part time. Well, she did sell ice cream for a week and then she taught for a while at a school but she never thought of studying and working at the same time. Then I thought to myself, why am I working? It’s nice to have extra money of course. But if I were to give tuition, I would earn more than what I’m doing now. However, it’s the joy that helps me pull through.
It’s such joy to see students doing well and improving. I have two students who are from Chinese-speaking background and they are a bit slow in learning. At the beginning, it was almost impossible to teach them English. But now, they have improved so much. Although they can’t speak fluent or good English, but they understand the words and what they are learning. It’s only a matter of time before they can apply the language they have learnt. They have opened up too. Now it’s a two-way communication. It used to be just me talking and having almost no response. Now they communicate with me too. So cute lah….
Anyway, tomorrow I’m getting my pay. woohoo!
Oh they are so cute. My uncle and his wife took their kids, my sis and I to 1Utama. Initially we were gonna watch Casino Royale but I wasn’t keen on it. And my cousins are too small to watch that. So in the end I took my sis and cousins to watch Happy Feet and my uncle and his wife watched their show. The show is so nice. And I love watching this kind of movies. My cousins are so cute. Especially when they laugh. So cute….The penguins are so cute too!
I’ve been working part time for a year now and I never thought that I could pull through. Many times in the year I almost quit because of uni and etc. I always thought I couldn’t cope. Many times I wanted to give up because I thought I didn’t have enough time. Sometimes I felt quite stressed up. Looking back I realise there was one thing that helped me pull through. It was the satisfaction and joy of seeing the kids (my students) and being a part of their lives. Maybe not so much of me being a part of them but they have impacted my life some way or another. Every time I feel tired and wanting to give up, when I see them, they give me the reason to carry on. Of course it’s not smooth sailing all along. Sometimes it’s really tough being in the working world. But the kids are a joy to be with.
I feel very much satisfied with what I’m doing. Sometimes (or maybe most of the time) I sacrificed many other things just to carry on with this job. This joy and satisfaction will probably be what will carry me through teaching.
Some kids just make you feel so important. Last Thursday I went for CTR and I took leave from work. Some of them kept asking me where I went. It’s always like that. Everytime I’m absent they’ll always ask me what happened. Makes me feel so important. hehe…Of course not all students are like angels. There are some naughty ones too. And there are some who are like friends whom you can talk to and relate well with. Seeing them reminds me of my childhood. Ahh…those bittersweet memories. There’s this one girl who totally can relate to my childhood days.
Well, all in all I’m truly glad of what I’m doing now. I really hope I can invest in their lives and be a part of them. I love them so much and Jesus loves them too…..
I still can’t decide which template to use for this blog. Shows how indecisive I am. Well, we did this personality test at camp and turns out I’ve changed. I remember doing this personality test a few years back and I was a completely different person then (maybe not completely different. just had different results). The results I got back then, if I remember correctly, were kinda different. Well, I believe circumstances changes people. =)
Anyway, the test shows that I’m indecisive and I’m a procrastinator. Well, it’s true and I’ve known that all my life. You can tell by the look of my room. It’s already the 8th day in my adventure to clean my room and the mess still looks the same to me. In fact, it’s actually worst than the first day. I think another word for procrastinate is lazy. The bottom line is that I’m too lazy to clean my room. Yup, the perfect word to describe me. Lazy. I love to sleep. But the thing about growing up is that we won’t have much time to waste. There’s just so many things lining up for us to do there’s no time to waste. I don’t wanna grow up.
I’m still waiting for Peter Pan to bring me to Neverland….
hey y’all,
this will be my new blog =) xanga is giving too much problems.
that’s all for now….
