an eventful day
post no 398. haha. should have posted 2 more posts before this so that my 400th post can be something more exciting.
today was one of my most interesting days since i ORD-ed. its back to waking up in the early hours again for me, because it is my first day on my relief teaching job. thankfully i walked in to school at the exact same time as
cheekie, so i managed to use the staff lift to get to the staff room, and to enter the staff room without having to wait outside for someone to open the door for me.
got to see the teachers' materials for maths, and then drew my own set of GC. wow the school is really nice to the teachers. they got the silver edition GC haha. ok. i admit i dont really care much about the extra RAM which the silver edition offers, so the only perk which the silver edition GC has to offer me is the sleeker design.
after that,
ms wang brought me around to introduce the various math department teachers to me. said hi to a few chem tutors too, since the chem department is situated so close to the math department. had flag raising after that and i realised the announcement podium changed, to a proper one now. after flag raising was breakfast HAHA. got to meet more math teachers there, before going back to the staff room with
ms wang.
she brought me around to more places, and helped me get various materials and resources like whiteboard marker, and temp pass and laptop. however, the temp pass and laptop were not ready. hopefully i can draw those items out on thurs.
cheekie said that once i got the laptop i will be MSN-ing the whole day in the staff room haha...
sat in the math lecture after that, conducted by
ms wang. she was setting the ground rules, which included having to attend every lesson and to be attentive. she then quoted me as an example, saying that i was a councillor and so i missed some of her lessons, but i was still attentive haha. doubt many of them knew she was referring to me though. she still cracks occasional lame jokes along the way, and will still say something funny without realising it haha.
after the lecture, i met the math hod, then stayed in the staff room to read the bookshelves of math reference books. wow it is a really extensive library. after a while though, i noticed that there was a large collection of i-weeklys, and sort of deviated from there. went to have lunch at noon, and couldnt get back to the staff room because none of the teachers were using the lift at that point in time. had to take a lift from the canteen side to fourth floor, walk to the library staircase, and then walk down the staircase to the staff room.
hung around the staff room till i clocked my hours, then went home to freshen up before i went to hotel royal for my APCC meeting.
there werent many people, but it was still a very engaging and fruitful session. i was the oldest there, from the '99 batch. come to think of it, its been 10 years since i went to japan as a junior ambassador. how time flies haha... anw, i met the BRIDGE club president, and one of the coordinators, and learnt how i could actually continue to contribute to promoting world peace. if possible, i would really hope to go to fukuoka again one day, not as a junior ambassador this time, but as a peace ambassador.
the president also expressed his dream of setting a BRIDGE club in singapore, and i hope that this will be realised soon. he is also a very inspiring man. in the short insightful chat he had with us, i can already feel the passion to spread the "omoiyari" (thinking about others) spirit, which is the vision of the BRIDGE club.
on a side note, there was this small incident where this RG girl couldnt express her thoughts to the president as he couldnt understand her question in english. i tried, using my rusty jap, to rephrase the question in japanese and i cant believe i actually managed to get across the message. the president and the coordinator were quite surprised that i knew japanese haha, and invited me to go to japan to study japanese at this language centre. all these sound like really exciting plans. i really wish that ill have an opportunity next time to contribute in one way or another to this meaningful organisation.
consilio et animis
2/10/2009 08:22:00 PM
