Yippee!
It's finally the March holidays!
A few things I'm quite happy about.
Would like to thank a few students for being very helpful.
(1) Ranjit for clearing the mess at the newspapers and stacking all the newspapers up very neatly. Thank you. The area is now very much cleaner and neater.
(2) Amy for putting all the files into the boxes and taping and labelling all the boxes. However, I'm not sure if you were using your Chinese remedial time to do all these work. It's not appropriate to find excuses to skip your academic work which is way far more important than these tasks, which should be done outside of curriculum time. You are only putting yourself at a disadvantage when you do not allow yourself to do your academic work properly.
(3) The boys in my class who helped to take down all the papers and posters extremely quickly. I just made a short trip 2 doors away to the staff room and viola! All the paper decorations were taken down!
(4) Chellam for being a very responsible and dutiful Mathematics rep for her class. Papers are always collected and kept in her own plastic file before handing up to me, she's always so apologetic when a few of her classmates failed to submit their work on time. And I give so much work to this class I'm quite sorry for her at times to have to collect everything. But it does make my work so much easier and I have such a great time teaching this class.
(5) Leonard Dunn and his 2 classmates for helping me carry all the laptops up to the Art Room yesterday evening. I had to carry 3 laptops, several hard-disks, a bulky tripod stand and other pheripherals up to the Art Room yesterday evening and I was just wondering how I can carry everything up in a single trip when the boys turned up to see Ms Tan. Unluckily for them, I roped them in to help me carry the stuff up. Luckily for me, they helped me willingly.
(6) My faithful 4N1 students - Jialing and Judith - who come every Sat for their Mathematics remedial lessons. Despite the rain and cold last week, they still turned up. No worries, you should get your distinctions in Mathematics in the coming 'N'-levels. Now, I'm more worried about your other subjects. No use scoring well in Mathematics when you're not going to do well in other subjects, say English.
(7) The few students who would smile when they see me and give me a cheerful greeting "Hi, Ms Low!". It's really nice to be fondly thought of instead of being sneered at and given disdainful looks, which is what we teachers get on a regular basis. It's nice to be appreciated for our work in making sure your work gets done, you learn what's required to pass, if not to do well, in your national exams, to care that you pass, if not to do well, in your national exams, to know that you are learning to be a better person, to care that you grow to be a better person... When our efforts are rebuffed or even disregarded as rubbish, I hope you realise that we are only humans too and we also get hurt by your words and actions.
Back to a more cheerful note, I am looking forward to the March holidays! Even though I still have to go back to school on Monday (Number Properties Workshop and work review), Wednesday (Mathematics remedial) and Thursday (CCA excursion). Trying very hard not to go back to school on Tuesday and Friday but I may go back after all. Need to transfer all my stuff from the temporary staff room into the newly done-up one. Looks like it's got plenty of space for me to put all my books and papers. Just need to throw all the other rubbish stuff away... And I've still got LOTS of rubbish stuff at my table, below my table, on my table...
Oh yes, I do hope for more helpful students who will willingly help us transfer our stuff to the new staff room next week. So if you turn out to be one of those students, thank you in advance! *grin*
