my assignment finally ended at friday thank god. im so tired today and it doesnt help that i have a 100% bad sore throat plus my period. hot stuff kills my sore throat. cold stuff kills my period. how to survive?! you tell me

bought the kids some titbits and some girl just says, teacher i dun wan. ok fine you dun wan done. later when i was giving out chocolates for those who did well for their spelling and when it was her turn she just tells me again: teacher i dun wan. then you line up for what??! wah lao. come to me to hao lian izzit. kids these days. so smug and full of themselves. need a good whacking on the bum. if they are so good, i dun see them getting full marks for their exams everytime.

i feel sick.
i have a sore throat.
i have a damn period.
i am sneezing so bad it hurts my throat.
i dun think i would want to take up any assignments until my throat is better. and give myself a hard earned break. -.- those poor moe teachers, sore throat or not, still have to go to sch and teach unless they cant take it and call for mc.

oh ya. and i think im starting to cough a little. i hope it wont blow up and i hope i wont develop a fever. then my poor hard earned break is spent recuperating at home=( anyway $$ is flowing into my account... now its being topped up, i feel better oso. at least i know i have enough money to survive on and dun have to borrow from others.

back to what i did today. hmm. went to school and immediately sat down to finish marking the corrections. then i had to count the number of assignments handed in. halfway through had to abandon everything and run upstairs to the hall where the children were sitted to take their attendance. after the assembly and everything got the class back to their classrooms and started to hunt down those that didnt hand in their assignments. gave out the maths tests and spelling books. congratulated those who did well and !@#$ a boy whom i gave an ostrich egg to for his spelling. apparently his previous teachers oso gave him ostrich eggs for the previous 2 spellings. very pro this boy.

went through corrections and sometimes, i could vomit blood. i write the corrections on the board and the kids can ask me "Ms Wu, i dont know how to do this one..." " Look at the board!!!! I told all of you i wrote the corrections there already!!!!" then they all scamper back. Urgh. Had to run to another class to teach Health Education. It's like ages since i revisited this topic but thank god primary 1 topics are always easy. So i got them to sing a song about their body using the tune"London Bridge is Falling Down" on the first page of the book. Then did a worksheet together labelling their body parts. " Class which part of the body is this?" *points to my hips* "HiP hIp hip HIP hIP hiP Hip" choruses the class in dis-unison. "Very good, class." *proceeds to write hip on the board*

A girl raises up her hand. "Yes?" i say. " Ms Wu i just want to let you know that im the class monitor of the class." Call me sensitive ah, but i think its more of proclaiming that you are in charge of the most important role in class than telling me for my reference. Anyway i ended up being right when she bosses her classmates. When i told them to take the books from the table, she snatches away the books from her classmates hands and proceeds to give them out, HERSELF. lol.

Later break. Marked the corrections of their english worksheets. For those of my year and older, you remember we used to do PETS worksheets right? I dont know about the rest of the schs but this one uses either a different one or its just a new syllabus. Kind of sad to know my PETS worksheet days were gone. lol. anyway the kids were horrible. tell them to do the corrections they have the cheek to hand it up to me again with none done. Later had to mop up my work i.e. check that everything is in order, write a note telling the next teacher what ive done with the class and who didnt hand in this or that so she can go and chase after that person for it and blah blah blah.. then time to take another class for PE!!!

the naughty kids of that class behaved much better today to my great surprise. and the class more responsive to those little games that i asked them to play. whew. cuz i was tired and couldnt think more than just racing games for them.

bell rings, marched them back to class, ran down to give myself a final check. Phonics book all handed in. Maths WB all handed in with 3 of them no corrections. have to bring them up and ask the 3 to do and pass up on monday. Filing to be done so i bundled the two stacks of paper. the bell rings and i go upstairs, trudging along a big bag of mamees and chocolates to the classroom and the class was like WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH when they saw them. lol.

settled the corrections for english worksheet again, gave homework. they didnt know which file colour is for which sub so i couldnt file. to end my lessons we had a drawing competition where each grp sends out a person to draw what i write on a piece of paper and the grp members have to guess the answer. anyway they took too long so i had to take over and purposely made it such that if you answer it correctly,you win the overall grp points and become the winner of the week. lol. and one smart aleck really guessed correctly!!! wow... haha... then they complain that my drawing dun look like me so not counted but i said you were supposed to guess what. LOL.

closed the lights, off the fan. bring the kids down to the porch. "those with bus can go first, and the rest stay with me." i bring the rest of the class to the sheltered walkway where all the parents littered the walkway like they were background colours of the wall all the way from the school to the nearest HDB flat. lol. the kids all went off and said bye bye one by one. had to answer an anxious parent's worries about her child being too talkative. walked back to the school and the auntie that locks the school doors locked up the staff room doors, and the ones that can still open are PIN enabled and i dun know the PIN. zzzz. so the few teachers just waited awhile and someone opened the door from inside. lol. had to rush back to the table. packed up my bag. neatened the piles of books. evacuated my big bag of ruffles that i bought but never eaten cuz of my sore throatT_T. placed the letter regarding my lesson plans on top of the maths tests and english worksheets that were supposed to be filed. signed out at GO and left school in my dad's car to go pick up my mum who's doing RT in another school. end of the day=)



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