January 2nd, 2008 (05:18 pm)
current location:
Home
current mood: tired
current song: Happy Working Song - Amy Adams
That basically sums up my day.
Woke up really early today, intending to go to Henry Park Primary School to apply for Relief Teaching there. After entering the office for 6 minutes and saying hi to Ming Yan, i stated my intention, and was immediately handed a timetable saying that i had to relief teach today for 6 periods. I was totally stunned, unprepared with no form of writing materials and armed only with my wallet, handphone, bankbook and O level equivalent. So i trooped down to the staff room to get an english textbook, said hi to a few of my primary school teachers. And then proceeded to the hall, in which i got stunned again.
As i entered the hall, i was greeted by the principal saying "and i will not hesitate to use caning..." OMGWTFBBQ! Seems like i had just got out of a prison after the As, only to enter another one. So i took a seat behind my relief class and proceeded to watch March Of The Penguins, which was pretty lame, considering that the principal was using it to teach the students about the growth of the chick and comparing it to the journey of studying. Everytime he stopped talking, he would do a Darth Vader, deep-breathing into the microphone, really loudly! lol! So after assembly, i had only 5 minutes with the form class, before following the following timetable:
07:25 - English (4H)
07:55 - English (4H)
08:25 - Phys Ed (6C)
08:55 - Science (5C)
09:25 - break
09:55 - English (4H)
10:25 - English (4H)
10:55 - English (4G)
11:25 - English (4G)
Ok, the break shouldn't be there, cause 5C's teacher didn't come at 9:25, so i had to continue relieving the class even after the lesson was over... Oh, and a student made an appointment with me on bootes tonight! Haha, he kept asking me throughout the lesson wad level, job, where i train and stuff like that. And the PE class was really crappy, cause the teacher before me (aka. the discipline mistress) took half of my period, so i only had 15 minutes to do PE, in which i decided to discuss with the students about nutrition and games they like to play. Then they were damn quiet lar! Possibly still in shock after being taught by the DM first thing in the morning. Haha!
So after that, i had 4 back to back lessons of English, something which i'm unprepared for. So after a quick discussion on their New Year Resolutions, i assigned a homework, asking the students to write a journal entry about their New Year Resolutions. I mean, how long could that take? A one-hour lesson dedicated to talking about New Year Resolutions... How boring... So in the end, i played a few rounds of hangman with the students and FINALLY, i was saved by the bell.
Had lunch with Mingyan and Mrs Idil, then went home.
But then i decided to sign up for Relief Teaching at Zhenghua Sec too, since it's right next to my house anyway. So here i am, now with practically 3 jobs... I'm so dead...