Friday, August 21, 2009

Trying to make a comeback to blogging

It's not easy because for the last few months whenever I sit in front of the computer one task or other crops up and I've had to put blogging on hold. I must really follow Covey's advice of filing and doing more tasks in the IMPORTANT BUT NOT URGENT box, rather than lumping everything in the URGENT box and have not enough time for what's important. Besides the camera acted funny and so I couldn't even get good shots to post. The few that were presentable went onto Facebook. Perhaps I should decide where I want to focus my stuff- Facebook or Blog. Mustn't be repetitious. Very tedious and 'lao-lang' 'cheong-hei' to repeat oneself. God has been good to me. These past week I had only 10 periods to cover. A GSTT (Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih) teacher came and she took over my one Form 1, one Form 2 and one Form 3 classes. I held on to my two Form 5 classes though she was to take over my whole timetable and I was told to observe her and operate on a-TST (teacher-support-team) basis. I did it a few times and then I cried off because I couldn't stomach the errors she subjected my poor ears to. What our kids have to put up with in class during English lessons! I shudder at the thought of this. I must remember to remind Jonathan again to ignore teacher-errors in his English class. So having to go to class officially for only 400 minutes a week left quite a good deal of time on my hands to pack and clear up many things in school for my departure from the world of classrooms. 30 August would be my last 'teaching' day for after that my fifth formers will be having their Trial Exams for SPM until I say good-bye to them on 17 September. They break off for the Hari Raya holidays. I break-off and that's it for the rest of the year. I DON"T HAVE TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL ANYMORE! Hooray! PTL