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Saturday, July 17, 2010
okie so this is the end of week 3 already. i've decided to add my students on facebook since i guess this is the best way to break the barriers between us. had some interesting convos with some of the teachers there and i felt that it was a little extreme. however, i am glad that there are like minded teachers still around. in life i realised that u always have to look at the brighter side of things and everything will be fine. friction bound to occur when u are cooped up with the same few people everyday. u'll realise their flaws and perhaps they will also find something that will irritate them from you.
as i was bitching to shermin about some of our colleagues, the next day God convicted me to be more forgiving for Him. if someone slap u on one cheek, u dun slap him back but rather offer the other side as well. it sounds ridiculous i know, as christians we are called to go the extra mile for people, by human capacity of cuz we'll fail but we have God, i have God.
after mingling with my students during class as well as in cca, i discovered alot of discrimination and weird patterns. kids these days first of all enjoy pain. they came to me and challenged me to the "hand squeezing" game. i kind of thrashed all of them but yet at the same time they keep coming to me and asking me to "cause them pain".
ytd i witnessed my first fight in school just before my first training in judo. at first it was just teasing, then it went on to pushing and finally fighting. its a good thing that the fight ceased after i pull them apart. guy A, lets call him Alan and guy B, Ben. Alan is quite zai in judo while Ben just started off and fundamentally weak in his moves evnthough he's much bigger in size. so anyway, it started off when i just came out of the staff room and a bunch of students came to me and asked if i was joining them for training. none of them knew i was a teacher there and they asked me if i was new cuz they never see me before.
student: u here for judo ah?
me: ya
student: training is on the 4th floor today. which school u from?
me: huh? this school la.
student: hmm how old are u?
me: wad do u think?
student: 17. u just graduated is it?
me: ehh im a teacher in this school le *laughing inside*
student: huh u're a teacher? u sure anot. never see u b4.
LOL hilarious convo. so im 17 again. i should wear gee more often. hahah
so during the training, alot of pple came to teach me stuff which was good. however, i realised that Alan was abit unhappy. i think he felt abit threatened by my presense cuz i suppose i bruised his ego. as a first timer, everyone expected me to be dang noob. during their warmups, we had to run 3 rounds the school plus up and down the stairs. then, we had to do front row, back row and cart wheel. of cuz i did everything perfectly since i did cheer for 3 years. Alan sparred with me but didn't managed to throw me, i mean what did he expect? im not some feather weight teacher with no muscles. i think secondary school students haven been exposed to the wonders of gym so they havent seen people who are in another league. oh well, this paragraph has no intention for self glorification. what im trying to say was that i realised he's super competitive and i think i will have trouble connecting with him in days to come.
with regards to discrimination in school, Ben suffers that fate. everyone told me that's he's lousy, useless etc. in fact, that kind of drew me to him. i felt that as a teacher i'm not there to join them but to impart them values. so even when everyone told me not to learn from him, i kept on going to him and sparred with him. i want to teach them to be gracious with their words and be more encouraging to one another. right now i see judo as a scary place cuz there are so many wolves around trying to eliminate the weak. i guess that's the difference between band and judo. most pple from band are very good natured. play around, laugh and do stupid things. as much as i want to be part of band, i guess there's more work to be done at judo. then again, im giving myself only 2 weeks cuz its tiring. the last thing i want is to burn myself up.
k time for lunch. ciao
+++11:21 AM+++
Jesus is Love
okie so this is the end of week 3 already. i've decided to add my students on facebook since i guess this is the best way to break the barriers between us. had some interesting convos with some of the teachers there and i felt that it was a little extreme. however, i am glad that there are like minded teachers still around. in life i realised that u always have to look at the brighter side of things and everything will be fine. friction bound to occur when u are cooped up with the same few people everyday. u'll realise their flaws and perhaps they will also find something that will irritate them from you.
as i was bitching to shermin about some of our colleagues, the next day God convicted me to be more forgiving for Him. if someone slap u on one cheek, u dun slap him back but rather offer the other side as well. it sounds ridiculous i know, as christians we are called to go the extra mile for people, by human capacity of cuz we'll fail but we have God, i have God.
after mingling with my students during class as well as in cca, i discovered alot of discrimination and weird patterns. kids these days first of all enjoy pain. they came to me and challenged me to the "hand squeezing" game. i kind of thrashed all of them but yet at the same time they keep coming to me and asking me to "cause them pain".
ytd i witnessed my first fight in school just before my first training in judo. at first it was just teasing, then it went on to pushing and finally fighting. its a good thing that the fight ceased after i pull them apart. guy A, lets call him Alan and guy B, Ben. Alan is quite zai in judo while Ben just started off and fundamentally weak in his moves evnthough he's much bigger in size. so anyway, it started off when i just came out of the staff room and a bunch of students came to me and asked if i was joining them for training. none of them knew i was a teacher there and they asked me if i was new cuz they never see me before.
student: u here for judo ah?
me: ya
student: training is on the 4th floor today. which school u from?
me: huh? this school la.
student: hmm how old are u?
me: wad do u think?
student: 17. u just graduated is it?
me: ehh im a teacher in this school le *laughing inside*
student: huh u're a teacher? u sure anot. never see u b4.
LOL hilarious convo. so im 17 again. i should wear gee more often. hahah
so during the training, alot of pple came to teach me stuff which was good. however, i realised that Alan was abit unhappy. i think he felt abit threatened by my presense cuz i suppose i bruised his ego. as a first timer, everyone expected me to be dang noob. during their warmups, we had to run 3 rounds the school plus up and down the stairs. then, we had to do front row, back row and cart wheel. of cuz i did everything perfectly since i did cheer for 3 years. Alan sparred with me but didn't managed to throw me, i mean what did he expect? im not some feather weight teacher with no muscles. i think secondary school students haven been exposed to the wonders of gym so they havent seen people who are in another league. oh well, this paragraph has no intention for self glorification. what im trying to say was that i realised he's super competitive and i think i will have trouble connecting with him in days to come.
with regards to discrimination in school, Ben suffers that fate. everyone told me that's he's lousy, useless etc. in fact, that kind of drew me to him. i felt that as a teacher i'm not there to join them but to impart them values. so even when everyone told me not to learn from him, i kept on going to him and sparred with him. i want to teach them to be gracious with their words and be more encouraging to one another. right now i see judo as a scary place cuz there are so many wolves around trying to eliminate the weak. i guess that's the difference between band and judo. most pple from band are very good natured. play around, laugh and do stupid things. as much as i want to be part of band, i guess there's more work to be done at judo. then again, im giving myself only 2 weeks cuz its tiring. the last thing i want is to burn myself up.
k time for lunch. ciao
Jesus is Love