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You can call me Noi! This blog consists of my thoughts. I am just a simple person with BIG dreams! Like the charcoal, hot pressure and extreme heat must be present in order to create a Diamond. I am in the exact same process.
All you need is........... / Explosive growth in 2009! / First day of school madness / From Your humble servant / My special thanks to YOU for 2008 / Pictures worth a thousand words / How do I TELL you? / Modifying and adjusting / Beautiful patience / Wordless Tuesday...kinda. /
I am supposed to have 3 sets of uploaded pictures for you but somehow blogger is throwing a tantrum at me so I cannot seem to upload properly.
It has been a crazy, mad and hectic week! And classes have not even started yet! Collecting forms, sending forms, schedules, timetabling has robbed me of a big chunk of my time and energy. I also have 5 new cases, all from P2 all the way to P6 and there are so many things to do with regards to administration matters.
The most 'exciting' of all was the project of doing up the notice board and the classroom, since we are having a very very big visitor tomorrow! Yes, my principal kept asking me EVERYDAY 'how is it'. This is the first week of school and there is so much to do with regards to lesson planning and resource building but I did not even get a chance to touch my lesson planning at all. At all. Thank God for my PVs who willingly came and assist me in a lot of cutting! There must have been hundreds of cards! Hmm, I must buy my PV a gift, really.
I am also deeply touched by the pouring offers from parents of my students who are willing to volunteer themselves in assisting me. I do need help so I decided to leverage myself and share strategies so others can teach at the same time I am teaching. I was so relieved I found this a solution to my 'no break' thursdays where my classes will start at 7.30 am all the way to 1.30 pm with no break. This way, the boys benefit and I can at least have a decent meal time.
So today was the last day SP and me die die have to finish cleaning and doing the classroom. We have become masters of faking and seriously I thought our fake 'grafitti board' was the best! Wahaha..hey you should have taken a picture of that! I think Cat is even more stress than us considering she JUST move her classroom and it must be so exhausting for her too!
Anyway, as of yesterday this was the state of my classroom. I was almost panicking.
Almost. Thank God I caught some boys who decided to drop by and help me sweep the floor, throw rubbish, hang up stuff, arrange books and wipe the shelves for me. It is so cute that they prefered cleaning my class rather than staying in the MT class. Haha. The most annoying is when Mel kept saying aloud "I am a housewife.' while sweeping the floor!
Today I had to chase boys back to class when the come looking for me wondering why they do not have classes with me! I said we start classes next week at least 5 times!
Boys sometimes just do not listen :p
Last night's open meeting was simply awesome. I was so exhausted from the climbing / cleaning the whole day so I was desperately trying not to fall asleep. I was inspired to write '5 things I value most' and after thinking I jotted this down.
5 things I value most: (in this order)
1. love / friendship
2. time
3. honesty
4. recognition
5. reward
I put love and friendship together because I do not believe in love without friendship. Time is precious to me, I get upset when people waste my time by making me wait. Which brings me to my next value, honesty. I appreciate honesty in people. I am thankful for being in the britt system for allowing me to know when someone is honest or not. Of course I am not right all the time, I am only human.
Recognition for me is not people clapping for me. Recognition for me is when the thanks I get is from the people I have impacted. Their thanks is straight from their heart and not some mere words they feel obligated to say to be polite.
Reward. I do not do things for the fun of it. I expect a reward or at least a good consequence from it.
Of course everyone is different. These are my values, I am sure you have different values from me ;) If you do not know what your values are, you need to look inside yourself deeper.
I am thankful because God has given me:
Brain - to think good and positive thoughts
Eyes- to see the good in people
Mouth- to speak things into existence
Tongue- to taste success
Hand- to take actions
Legs- to go where I want to be
Heart- to feel for others
What wonderful blessings that Allah swt has granted me with!
Counting down to PASE and weekend when I can have more than 20-mins meals!
