well, this week has been nothing short of memorable

wed, i gave 114 an Attitude & Tone in-house assignment and what was meant to be a 30-min routine daily work dragged on to 50mins? one hour? as they couldn't get down to attempting the questions. some expressed that the lesson was boring. true, i grant that but hello, there's a block test on 21/8 and i'm just trying to get you to pass.

so, we were all in a foul mood. my lousy mood aggravated by the fact that i was wearing a silly sarong in an attempt to spice up the activity for the second hour, which was to extract main ideas from these INTERESTING passages on travel.

oh my god. i made myself a clown for nothing.

then, i went to 125 and forced 5 people to attend the final of the JCDC. and i was stupid enough to prolong the agony by forgetting (twice!) to include the appropriate number of smiley faces, which amounts to participation, in the plastic bag. sigh~~~

thurs, delivered my 1st lect to half the JC1 cohort on Sci & Tech. why wasn't i posted to a sec sch? why did i have to do this? super ironic because i found GP lectures to be ultra BORING and never in my wildest dreams did i imagine that one day, i would be delivering one of THEM.

basically, i stripped for no apparent reason because most people didn't see the atoms on my very INTERESTING tee

oh my god. oh my god. oh my god. these are the things that people are going to remember ten years from now lar. and they will reminisce about their JC days and when the topic comes to me, they will say:

that Mr Heng v funny leh. remember tat lect in wic he tink he like superman

my only consolation is that i'm rather thick-skinned. hahaha

fri, lect went more smoothly. better at asking guiding Qs and eliciting responses so that the hapless students i "arrowed" upon won't fumble and look silly

not that i'm being arrogant or what but i declare the lesson with 125 a success!

i managed to get them to craft an individual AQ response piece at 4pm! and people wanted to do the task well, since some chose to continue writing after the time limit was up and others wanted to submit on monday

i got people excited about doing work. how brilliant was that!

not mentioning the best part of it all--their answers. maybe the examples can be better elaborated but basically, they all understood how to structure an AQ response. Not too shabby at all.

i think this was the first lesson in which i felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

i'm helping people to improve. how many people can lay claim to that?

minna san, ganbatte yoz!