UPdates

It's beginning to be such a hassle having to journal my daily events at school ~ it is supposed to be a self development, self growing, self assessing tool that enables us to learn from our mistakes or ways to improve our teaching skills.

Anyhow, before I start journalling my Day 20 (Friday, 9 Nov 2007), I've decided to update a little about my personal life. Well, not that there is much is update anyhow! hehe

I will having my 2 wisdom teeth extracted next Friday (16 Nov 2007), hence i won't be able to go out with anyone the week after that. As you can imagine, my face would either be puff swollen both sides or i am bedridden with inevitable pain. I will be going under full anaesthetic during the day surgery, as they are removing 2 wisdom teeth; they need to cut the teeth to smaller pieces (as they are not growing properly upwards because my jaw is too small), so they need to cut as well a little bit of the gums as well as a little bit of the jaw bone. This is not a procedure I would want to be on local anaesthetic, as i don't want to hear all the drilling and noises. So yes, if you want to talk to me after next Friday, please come visit me on msn :)

I will be here in Decemeber, so people who are still here few weeks after exams, call me out hey.. we'll go for a coffee.

On another note, now I sort of understand why relationships don't work if it is long distance. Some might be together before one goes to another state or overseas for studies or work. Sometimes, it is probably the situation that change for both parties, not the feelings. However, then why isn't love strong enough to conquer anything? Sometimes humans are just humans. One reason I came up with is probably either party must be feeling vulnerable without the other one by his/her side and might resort to the company of another man/woman. So rather than cheating or tieing someone down, they break up. Situations change. So the underlying reason is not because they grow out of love, but because their situations changed. Then why do we even "love" someone when it doesn't matter at all? If it is our career that we want to chase after and maybe to some it is our no.1 priority in life, then maybe having a love is not what you really want but just a company for u & that is unfair for him/her. Anyways, I am sidetracking heaps here.... Maybe I don't understand the full extent of it, but I just feel if you truly love/like the person (this is someone whom you think you will spend the rest of your life with), then isn't it worth fighting for? I DO understand CAREER is a big part of life. However, have you ever considered what would you choose if you HAD to choose: CAREER or LOVE? I also wouldn't know which one to choose. There's lots to weigh up.


Day 20 - Friday 9 November 2007

Last day of Week 4 of teaching prac. First lesson of the day are the Year 8s. Surprisingly, the lesson went well. I had prepared the lesson materials the night before, as I don't know what we should do in class. They are studying Ancient China, which in this lesson, we looked at the religion and did an activity on the Confucius sayings. I made them choose a saying which they can relate to, or understand. Most of them said "Do not do unto others as you would not do unto you". This was one among 6 sayings in their textbooks.

We had a relief teacher, as my mentor had to supervise the Year 12 exams ~ the class was on task and it was quieter than the last lesson we had for Year 8s. This lesson i separated 4 boys, as they were constantly disrupting the class the last 2 weeks. i gave the same 4 boys detention on my Week 1 here as they couldn't stop mucking around. They were very reluctant to move seats but i was going to have no arguments with them. I told them a few tiems to move and they were like "do i have to?" I said "yes". They keep asking me that and finally i said "yes. This is my last time telling you to move". Because if he doesn't, i will give him a detention (for disobeying my instruction). Haha, I never thought to go to the detention thing but i really had to make it clear that i expect him to move (my mentor wrote down on the relief paper that they shud be separated for that lesson). They worked well, except for the fact that they were daydreaming most of the lesson. And when it was time for the activity, they were asking me individually, "so what do we have to??" =.=

The Year 9s - double lesson after recess. Oh my, this is the record day for having 2 girls in the class crying in the same lessson for different reasons. We watched a video this double lesson - on "NED KELLY"; part of the Australian 19th century history and i was starting the topic on Bushrangers and Goldrush. Funny how I mention in class that we will be studying Bushranges and Golddiggers. LOL. Anyhows, Girl 1 was crying already when i saw her at the end of recess/start of lesson. I was walking to the lecture theatre in which we will be watching the video & half of them are still loitering on the pathways, slowly threading to class. But i saw a student and then he motioned my eyes towards his left, where the girl was. I was like oooo, she's crying. I asked her what's wrong. She said nothing. But her tears are like flowing down her face. I asked her if she was alright; she nodded. I was either to tend to her (which i have no clue on what to do with her; eg take her to the front office or take her to sick bay or take her to class?) OR i was to go to the lecture theatre and set up the dvd player for the rest of the class. I had two choices. One girl or set up the dvd player for the rest of the class. So i motioned the student (whom she was with), to take care of her while I go to class first and set up. I had to look after the interests of all the students versus one girl crying. Later that boy arrived in class, telling me she is outside or something. My mentor arrived to class also. He had to make a phone call to one of the students' parents asking permission for her to watch the video as she forgot to get it signed. I made a few phone calls before to parents in my spare lesson to those who forgot to get their permission note signed. Halfway through the movie, i realised another girl (sitting at the back row) was crying? I wasn't sure but her fren was patting her back and she had her head on her bag, as if she was sleeping. Now, i assumed she is crying, as I heard from my student teacher the day before, that her friend died in a car accident, so it's normal for her to grieve for her friend. The video had scenes of killing, so maybe it triggered her emotional buttons again. I went over to her and her friend asked if they could go outside. I said "ok". So the girl who was crying and a friend of hers went outside. Man, my mentor had to walk in and out of the theatre like countless times to check on this person and then that person and then someone needed to pick up a phoencall from mobile. Oh, i didn't mention what was the Girl 1's problem was. I also don't know but to my observations, she has been moody for the past 2 days during homegroup and S&E lesson. It is very unlike her to not speak to me nicely or hand in her assignment on time. She is still late in handing up her assignment to me. I think it might have something to do with her home and family or friends at school.

So, my day has been very interesting, in terms of I never though I would have girls crying in my class.