LAST DAY IN ALLOCATED SECONDARY SCHOOL!


Bought this Ricola sweet as a gift for my CT because she had sore throat.
She was super surprised that I got her this.
:)


This is the place where I sat in school.
It is a room inside the library.


Met up with NIE friends after school!
Went to Marche to eat.

But the waiting time was so LONG.
Thus we took photos while waiting.



KH and me.


KH and me again. :)






Dual screen camera power!


YX, Stephanie, me and PS.








Somewhat, somehow all of us passed the cups to Steph...and she collected them.













FINALLY WE MANAGED TO GET IN!



Steph reading the newspapers with a very serious face.


FOOD!


"Let's do the teachers pose!"


:)










Why are you smiling so happily?


This one also.
Hahaha.

After eating...

Steph posing with her balloon.


Group photo, Weihao as photographer.


Balloon attack!


Everyone inside this photo now (except Zijin who left earlier).
P.S: Shenyean stepped onto Weihao's foot. :S

END OF PRACTICUM!
:D

Forth day in allocated Secondary school!

I had a similar hairstyle, similar top, similar pants and similar shoes as my CT today.
“我们很有默契哦！妳今天就作我的妹妹。”
And true enough...
“陈老师！为什么你们的衣服那么象？有讲好吗？”
“没有啊，她是我的妹妹。我叫陈惠燕，她叫陈惠敏。哈哈!快点，她叫陈老师，我也叫陈老师。早安!”
“真的吗？不要骗我们...”
“你问我妹妹咯？是吗？”
“哈哈，是啊。”
“噢。是吗...？陈老师s早安...”
This incident happened for all observation classes I went to.
=_=


The corridor I always walked to my holding room in the library.
Along this corridor are biometric machines which students will scan their thumbprints for their attendance.
COOL SIO.


A small water fountain/ feature.


Went back to Nan Hua today!
And to visit Kahhern. :)
NH changed so much within 3 years!
Saw Amanda at Clementi.
Then I saw Yihang in NH, talking to dance juniors.
Woah.
长江后浪推前浪，前浪死在沙滩上。:(
Hahaha!

My eye... :(:(:(

Third day in allocated Secondary school!

My teacher is finally here after her many days of MC.

Oh, my teacher is the second one from the left.
I had been haunting the forth teacher (许老师, same! :D), and my Chinese HOD who is on the extreme right.

In 许老师's lesson today, she introduced another trainee teacher and me.
“这个是吴老师，那个是许老师。”
“啊有两个许老师?她是老师的妹妹啊？”
“对咯，我的妹妹。哈哈哈！”

So random!

Shall show you the teachers who are in my allocated Primary school.


20 Chinese teachers!!!
That might give you an idea why I had 30 observation periods. :/

Went to eat sushi with Kahhern today.

Frog mouse.

Ate a lot of $1.99 plates of sushi.
And...

Udon. D:


Small tubs of ice cream. D:


Super full sio. D:


THURSDAY!
ONE MORE DAY TO FRIDAY!
GOGOGOGO.

Second day in allocated Secondary school!

SLACK.

My CT is absent again.
So I had no lesson for today!
I nua-ed! I slack-ed! I slept! I roamed! I walked!

Of course not!

I went to find my Chinese HOD, and he brought me to his Secondary 3 Express Chinese class.
He said that upper Secondary students are not as cute as lower Secondary ones.
And he told me about the differences between a Primary and Secondary school kid.
For E.G., if you want to punish students, you can call the parents of the Primary school kid. You cannot hold back a Primary school student after school because he has to catch the school bus. If not, you have to personally send them home. Whereas for Secondary school students, staying back is effective because they lose their freedom. Calling parents is not as effective.

He also said a lot of other things that make a lot of sense to me. :)

Afterwards, I went to a Secondary 2 Express Chinese class.
They are certainly much more responsive than upper level ones.
Haha.

And the long hours of talks brought my art of stoning to a higher level.
Super hiong!
The hours of talks are WAY more than my observation classes.
So far... I only observed 2 hours of class, as compared to 6 hours of talks.
O.o
THERE ARE STILL 150 MINUTES MORE OF TALKS ON FRIDAY.

SOBS. D: D: D:
I'M SO TIRED.


Blah blahblahhhblahhhh. Pfffft. I’m bored. BLAH. Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored, I’m bored. Nah. Tch tch tch. Rah rahrahhhrahhhhhh. Hurrr. I’m bored. Hmmm! Eyyy! Blah. BLAH! I’m bored. Blah blahblahhhblahhhh. I’m bored. Blah.. Bored! Bluuuuuhh bluhhhahrahah. I’m bored. Yeah. Nah nahhaanaanahh. I’m bored. Pffft pfftt. Urgh. I’m bored. Somebody entertain me. You can entertain me? Yeah. HI!

First day of school experience in allocated Secondary school!

SIAN.

6.55am: Reported to school and waited there like a goon.
7.10am: Received this booklet, which I totally D:. No observation of classes for today. Found out that Day 1 ends at 3pm. Day 2 ends at 4.30pm. Day 3 and 4 according to CT's timetable. Day 5 ends at 3.30pm. Lesson observations of CTs by right end at 12.40pm. But tons of talks like 'Expectations of teachers', 'Overview of ICT policies etc' are being lined up for me. BOOHOOO.
7.15am: Another NIE trainee arrived.
7.20am: Staff meeting. Principal meeting. Vice principal meeting.
10.40am: Break. :D
11.40am-2.39pm: Do pretty much nothing. Did little admin stuffs. Roam around looking for HOD. But my CT is on MC. So I roamed around again. Surfed net.
2.40pm: OUT OF SCHOOL!

That pretty much sums up my 1st day in school.
It's like last week Youth day-Monday.
Hahah.

Met up with Kahhern after school. :)
AND TADAH!







♥

Last day of Primary school experience!

Farewell my card.

My super empty desk.
It's not even mine!
I'm sharing it with Yifan, one year 2 NIE BA Chinese student.

Woah.

Eh, yeap.
Gave the chocolates to the teachers who brought me about in school.
"Good luck to you, see you next year!" they said.
:D

Me and Yifan. :)
I only interacted with her throughout the whole experience.
I didn't see the other student-teachers at all (because of my 10am timetable)!

Met up for a short dinner.

This is the best food I had in the whole week.

UH...
That's all for now.
:D
Shall slack until next week's Secondary school experience.
7am!

Third day in allocated Primary school!

Went into a class before the teacher came in.
"Are you the relief teacher? Come in! Sit sit! :D"
'Oh okay. :)'
"Can I go toilet?"
'Oh hurry up go...'
"Can we practise our song item later? We are going to have competition soon!"
'Oh. Sure, no problem. :)'
I was sitting behind the class minding my own business when the following incident happened.
P4 boy: "Teacher, nah, I give you this windmill."
Me: 'Uh, no I cannot take it...'
P4 boy: *beams. "No never mind la, just take it." *runs back to his seat.

And thus, I've the kNOw Drugs! gift.

Bought these yesterday, might give them as farewell gifts MAYBE.
They looked all so tempting.
:(
Only that tic-tac is mine.
Shall go buy more tomorrow. :D

Second day in allocated Primary School!

Attended staff meeting, it was supposedly my break time!
:(
Ended up with no break in between my lessons.
Only managed to eat after 3pm.

During a 1.5hr P2 observation class today, I sat beside this split class students (their teacher was absent)...
The spilt class students were supposed to do their own work.

Student A: Teacher! You are Miss or Mrs?
Me: Miss...
Student A: Oh! Then you don't have a baby!
Me: =_= ya...

(Random asking me on how to write Chinese characters.)

Student A: What company you working at?
Me: ...MOE?
Student A: As?
Me: Teacher, soon.
Student A: Oh. My mother also under MOE you know. She is an engineer.
Me: O_o okay...

(Random asking me on how to write Chinese characters again.)

Student A: You got travel to different countries? I got go to New York before! USA you got? Korea eh? That one I haven't go before...
Me: ...
Student B: You like what character in Disney?
Me: Huh?
Student B: I like Minnie!
Student A: I like Cinderella! You?
Me: Uhm. (THINK VERY HARD. I seriously can't think of any. So...) I like....Mickey.
Student A: You like the boy?
Me: UH, they are both mouse, same. I like them both.

(Random asking me on how to write Chinese characters again.)

Student B: 1 + 1 = ?
Me: 2?
Student B: Wrong! It's a window!
Me: =_=

After a while...
The teacher flashed a picture of a running hamster on the Powerpoint.
Student B: (turned around) You like hamsters? *point
Me: =_= yes... They are very cute.
Student B: I got 1 hamster!
Me: :)

5 minutes left...
Student A: What is your name?
Me: 许老师
Student B: 许 what what?
Me: (Must give them full name meh?) 许钏鸣
Student A & B: Oh... Where you live? Woodlands? We live at Street 12 (or something)!
Me: Street 31...
Student A & B: What block?
Me: ...why? You want to come and visit me is it?
Student A & B: *shake heads immediately.

FINALLY BELL RANG.
Student A: BYE 许老师! What class you going to teach ah?
Another friend of hers: Hurry go to next lesson la, stop talking to teacher liao.

In the Staffroom.
Teacher: Hey, wa sorry just now I couldn't rescue you from the split class students during lesson. I saw them keep pestering you, asking you questions. Haha, you can ignore them one.
Me: Haha, it's okay la. Never mind.

First day of School experience in my allocated Primary school!

I got a shock when I received my timetable for this week.
Click to enlarge.
I'm to report to school at 10am daily (yay!) and go home at 3+pm on average (boo!).

I totally envy those who can go home at 1+pm.

[Peisin, your timetable is so slack! I want! :(]

I think I've got both morning and afternoon session classes to observe.

[Why so hiong!, exclaimed Kahneng.]
I'VE JUST REALISED!

From the Practicum website, during Primary school observation, I'll be assigned approximately 20-24 periods.

I've got...30!

WAAAAA :(

And suayness ensued. I felt super unwell during my last observation class.

Broke out in cold sweat and had to ask for tissue from a cute and chubby girl sitting next to me. Can't imagine if I'm unwell since the first class.
Kahhern cabbed down immediately to send me home. :')

Really appreciated it a lot. THANKS KH. :D :D :D \o/
And I fell down while walking home. Totally in cui state. Boo.

Hmmm, I observed 3 classes today.

Not much interaction with the teacher and me during the lesson.

But of course, there were some instances.

In the first class, the teacher used me to form造句。

“许老师的笑容很亲切。”

*awkward smile.
...“我们问许老师看要不要扣你们组的分数！”

Suddenly all the students turned around and pleaded with me not to deduct.

“Erm.. 不要。”
See! I'm so nice.

In the second class, there were 2 of the NIE trainee teachers observing the same class.

The teacher asked 1 boy and 1 girl to模仿傲慢的语气。

But she asked us to decide who is the best.

To be fair, we both voted for the girl and guy respectively.
See, I'm so nice again.

I'm joking...

Can't remember anything during the third class.

Not paying attention. :/

Ah. I made an interesting observation: kids nowadays're getting bespectacled!

It's like 3 out of 5 students are wearing spectacles.

I know it's a problem, but I never knew it is that serious...

Haha, random.

Please let it be a better day tomorrow!