yvonne's

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Cant believe the last time i blogged was in Jan.. It is now the March hols, one term of school has passed. Time flies very quickly when you are loaded with never ending amount of things to do! And this March hols hasnt been much of a break either. Everyday there are things to do - camp, course, setting of papers and preparing for lessons when school reopens!

And it is 3 weeks to my wedding banquet! Finally. Cant wait for it to come... been preparing for it, thinking about it till I just want it to faster come and be over. It's exciting as it is going to be once in a lifetime :) hee.

Took out my wisdom tooth.. it was really quite an operation. I couldnt get to bed the whole night after the operation cause there was so much blood and it didnt seem to stop. After it stopped, it came back again as I was dozing off! it was really quite a nightmare and my face was swollen.. :(

And I have done something really bad. Hais.. all because of my blurness, I forgot about my best friend's wedding. I really hate myself for being so blur. I think my mind was preoccupied with school stuff that when my family asked if I could go on a holiday with them in June, I immediately said yes to the much needed holidays without thinking too much. My best friend's wedding is during the time that I will be in Korea for holiday... sighs. im a total failure!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

busy life!!!

A month of 2010 has passed. So quickly! Time really flies when it comes to work. I m now slowly getting used to stepping into class and doing all the scolding n nagging. And I have also come to realise that I really do HATE marking. Before I was a teacher, I always thought marking is the most fun part in a teacher's job. And now it is the most sickening part. Marking copied homework, untidy work to the point that you have to squint and search for corrections, little minus signs that are missing, is REALLY REALLY frustrating. Marking test papers is even worse, because the truth of whether the students have been doing and understanding their hw properly comes to light. The disgusting and scary truth.

Overall, I cant say that I like my job. I dislike the nature of the job, I have tons and endless of things to do everytime. And as teacher, we have to be involved and active in many different comittees etc. And unmotivated students are really a challenge that I have not been able to deal with properly yet. :( But I cant say that I hate my job too.. there are students that I really enjoy teaching and seeing in class. Those who are willing to learn, responsive and look happy to be in my class.. my sec 2 Topaz, i love them so much.

SIGH. It is really tiring to work! HAHA... i wish i can just slack throughout my life!! Wahaha. But then again, life will be quite meaningless, and I will have NO MONEY! :P

My wedding is drawing near. Weekends are just too short, need to buy new year clothes, prepare for wedding, do some work related stuff such as preparing for lessons ETC. TIRED!!!

Thursday, January 07, 2010

It has been 4 days of work! Wah. I am so overwhelmed by the many many events happening in school. The ongoing ones, upcoming ones, etc!! There are just so many events happening in school. omg. for the first 3 days, we had department meetings, sec 1 camp which i wasnt involved, and stuff. and i was quite stressed at the amount of work teachers have to do. Set test, exams, organise events, cca, attend courses, work appraisals, notice boards, enrichments, remedials etc.. the list is non exhaustive. After wednesday's meeting, I was so "filled to the brim" that tears just kept flowing while i was waiting for daryl to pick me up from his busy day at work too. lol. I dunno why i so stressed for what!!

Classroom management is still ok for me! i think partly cause i m taking all the express classes. But i guess i pissed my math class students when i decided to use part of cme's time for math.. and i forced them to buy the cme file which i dont know if i will ever ask them to use.. they kept groaning and moaning about buying n not using them at all in class and complained that i did math during cme.. haha... it was only the first lesson ma, and there was nothing much i could do also.. :P

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Brand new 2010

Cant believe it. My dec holidays has come to an end. Tomr I will be officially stepping into school as a permanent teacher! Of course it will be an exciting day, but I am worried and anxious more than excited.

I don't aspire to do very well in my career given my introverted personality and I dont want to really aim high. But I want to see myself progress well in the school. I want the students to enjoy my lessons and want to be a better teacher each day. I want to have really good classroom management skills too. Well.. just have to see how it goes! Good luck to all my nie batch teachers!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

New Zealand Holiday

Day 1 - on the plane to NZ

Day 2 - Christchurch

We didnt do much for day 2 as we were all tired from the overnight plane.

International Antartica Centre

We took the Hagglund ride and it was really bumpy and FUN!!

We saw some penguins and also experienced a snow storm! It was super chilling and scary, probably similar to the temp i experienced in finland but with strong winds.

cold~~

Day 3 - Hokitika

Hokitika

Lunch was whitebait, a popular fish in this town. We were really looking forward to eating it and were disappointed that it was just some small tiny fish fried with omelette.. diao...