Monday, January 03, 2005 , 7:22 PM
><))o> First day in school
#Went to css today to report and found out a few shocking things today....
Shock number 1 : The previous principal of CSS, Miss Dorothy Tay has resigned and a new principal ( i dont know what's her name yet) previously from Pasir Ris Crest Secondary has taken over her. This new principal (i heard) is pretty strict about attire....the sandal which i wore today (i have about 3 of such casual sandals and they take up 3/4 of my shoe collection) cannot be worn! I was like...what the hell!! So...i have to take out my choir court shoes and start to make sure i get use to them again....getting used to the shoes is not simply just putting it on and walk around....its more like getting through the "blister phase" (u know...how certain shoes esp court shoes can cause horrible blisters at the back of the ankle? *ouch!)
Shock number 2 : All along, i tot i was supposed to take over some sec3 classes (i was thinking, "bless me!" at that time) but today i found out that for the first two weeks, i'm supposed to teach not one but TWO sec5 classes! I nearly fainted when i heard this appalling news. And i also got to learnt that some of them actually knew me....ooo....how nice....i can forsee that it will take me quite a great deal of effort to draw the line between teacher and students.
Shock number 3 : Well...as i was saying, i thought i was supposed to teach a sec3 class so i was expecting to teach the topic "simultaneous questions" (quite an easy topic) but because now i gotta teach sec5, i am told to teach "probability" instead. Hmm....honestly, i gotta admit that probability was never my forte. Infact, its my worse and most hated topic for math c statistics...now that i have to take over the role as the one teaching, i can predict that tonight i have to come up with some lesson plan, making sure that tomorrow when i teach probability, the students would not be confused and most importantly, i dont get confuse myself!
#Shocks asides, i have learnt afew lessons today....
Lesson 1 : Always have a book or newspapers or some magazines (times or FHM or whatever lah) with you....because i realised it is terrible borring to kill time by staring away (in the process you look like some idiot)....i had to wait for nearly 2 hours before i finally met up with the teacher i'm supposed to relief...boy! THat was the most boring 2 hours of my life!
Lesson 2 : Always keep your foundation solid (as in for basics in maths or eng or watever you have learnt)....i hate to admit this...but when i was in sec1, i was always dazing during maths lessons and practically all that i was taught, was returned back to the teacher. Today, i found myself staring at familiar terms with unfamiliar definitions when i was looking through the sec1 textbook (i'm supposed to relief a sec1 class)...things like natural numbers, prime numbers seemed like such a "long-time-ago" affair....hmm...now why didnt i pay attention to my teacher in the past?
Lesson 3 : Always remember faces together with the names. Today, i went back and saw many familiar faces but i couldnt find the name to tag to those faces. I was painly embarrased by my memory that always seem to short-circuit. As those familiar faces greeted me, i could only hear myself saying, "Hello Mrs/mdm/mr....*mumbles*", hoping that they wouldnt realised that i have longed shoved their names out of my brain to make way for those bombastic info that my jc tutors feed into me.
#Thats all for now i can say of my experience today....i certainly pray that tomorrow, everything will go smooth for me! After settling my stuff at CSS, i went to JP to watch Phathom of the Opera with my bf. THe show was fantastic...with a proper script and setting in place, the broadway musical magically transformed into a movie that makes the story more comprehandable by normal people like me. The songs were also skillfully aligned with the plot so there's never a dull moment in the movie...its always some conversation, and lots of singing! Its really a great show not to be missed!
