[Stella's daily confessions. I dare to confess, i love to express & i live to impress]

Friday, July 29, 2005

School has been fun and relaxing for the whole week. Yesterday i had a 'Teambonding' orientation and managed to meet new friends or should i call them my fellow collegues as well. It's great having to know so many new trainee teachers teaching various subjects ranging from English, Chinese and PE. However, i'm the only one who is gonna teach in a Secondary school while majority of them in a Primary sch. Phew i prefer Secondary school. I adore my students like my friends. They all go 'Wow,you so small size go secondary school..sure get bullied easily' (which i have heard this 1001 times)

I used to have this dead thinking that all teachers are old, sulky and boring. BUT, entering into NIE changed my perception immediately. I realized that the new generation of teachers has evolved. No more old hags or nerdy maths teacher. There were tremendously loads of young trainee teachers, majority in the age group of early to mid-twenties. They are fun & just like any other young adults! There were ample pretty ladies & man(emphasize the word 'man' as most of them were mature & spoke with confidence)Childish guys definetly are not qualified to be teachers. Laughs.

We even had to play waterbombs during the teambonding orientation & imagined few hundreds teachers trying to bomb one another. It would be hilarious if our students get to see sucha scene. The teachers were trying to allie with one another but once the bombing starts, they betrayed one another. Haha. I was chosen to be the 'mascot' cos i'm sorta the smallest size in my group & i was wearing a white polo tee so they wanted to protect me from getting bombed & wet. The girls were hugging me and the guys were standing in a circle(they were tall & fit enough to act as a wall barrier)It was really funny. Through many of the interesting games yesterday, we instantly became from acquaintances to friends. Our group was saying 'touch here or touch there' when we were blind-folded & the instructors shouted 'Guys, don't anyhow touch & don't touch the wrong places!' & when we came up with a plan to cheat, the instructors said 'Teachers don't cheat' and all the teachers rebuked 'Teachers also humans what!' New Generation Teachers! HAHAHA. HIP!

Oh by the way, girls don't be surprised that a guy in my group is called Clement. Yes...'Cle'...'ment' Okie? Not 'Cla'...'rence' I was pretty surprised when he introduced himself & i was like 'Okay...why this name & in my group?' Haha.

I do feel the atmosphere in NIE. The passion of being an inspiring teacher. That's what i wanna be for that five years. We hear this everyday in NIE 'You teachers make a difference in their lives' which i totally agree that we educate students & nuture them to become useful & mature adults. Now as a trainee, i really realized that teachers play a very meaningful role in everyone. And the good ones leave a deep impact. Thus i aspire to be one with no doubts though i do not intend to stay in the education line for long. I know i have the passion for my students when i was teaching in TSS. I would love to teach in ZHSS next year! Gimme a mixed school!

*you could never believe that a student in NTU actually drives an AE-86 to school! YES! The exact same car with the japanese wordings in the Initial-D movie. Its sooooooo cute. I saw it once at night when i was going back to my hostel & i was so amazed & excited. Today, me & my friends saw it again, parked nicely enough for them to take pictures of it! Once they upload the pics, i'm gonna post them in my bloggie. Stay tuned to AE-86! Life in NTU is rather cool! HAHA

Well wishes..HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY Mr Bang!

i cried my heart out at 4:30 AM