Wednesday, April 30, 2008 @10:05 PM
i'm so glad that tmr is a holiday. i'm seriously having a big headache. this is worse than last week's. ):
three weeks ago, our class started our long term CIP at a primary school. First week was fine as we did intro and games. got to know the p4 kids better. at least we're able to tell their names. my first impression. alright. they should be an okay bunch of kids to work with. we started on math properly the week after and i was so glad my tutee was a really nice girl. she shares with me how she revise math with her dad every night. i thought that was sweet. (: then last week we had lesser people and i was taking my friend's tutee. two of them. that's it. my first headache. when all of the kids are separated, they are really alright. put two of them together and gosh. so happened the two of my tutees are quite playful and they decided that that day was opposite day. they did their work slowly but i'm glad at least they sat down at their tables. today's was just a hell out of my life. first time i shouted at kids. i've seriously never experienced this before and i doubt so when i was in p4. maybe because my class was one of the better classes. today we had house session in school so only 4 of us went. so bingxin and i took the p3 kids while shufang and crystal took the p4 kids. there's p3 kids as the teacher taught there were quite many of us to start off with.
so last week i had a slight headache handling two naughty kids and now i'm having a really big one because today the kids just ran around the room and refuse to do their work. bingxin's kid was like doing a question correctly and decided to run round the room once and bang his head on the door and pretend to be dead on the floor. he just consecutively does that. and we cant seem to stop them. maybe cos there's only the two of us facing 10 kids. to be honest and not bias, the girls are alright.
bingxin and i came to a conclusion why parents want to send their kids to good, famous schools. and i think this is really true. i guess kids there are definitely more proper and they wont resort to vulgarities and just refuse to do their work or have attitude problem. today's experience is seriously enough. i'm tired. maybe it's time we talk to the teachers about this and perhaps do some reflections on our part as well.
i've got a new name from the p4 kid whom i tutored last week. Auntie B. right. i realise since p4, i've never been given so many new names or being told that i look like some other creatures. gosh. am i living in the right period of time? i thought that only happens in primary school. -.-