well, its been another long break since i last blogged. well, sch hols too bz liaoz, so no time for blogging.. hah. well, sch started 2 wks ago, and i have a disgusting timetable - weds thru' fris i have 4-hr breaks in between lessons. which is why im blogging at a time like this - 1348hr - in between my 4-hr break. disgusting.
anyhow, the sem got off to a rather gd start. my mods are rather alrite, with the exception of one. this guy cant teach, and he has nothing to teach either, alwaz trying to smoke us with some nonsense. no substance. and this is after my class and previous batches gave him bad reviews during the module-evaluation at the end of each sem. well, guess i'll juz have to bear with him for another sem..
this sem is rather short, anyway, with juz 6 wks of lessons in nie. so i felt rather sianz when the sem started. firstly, coz i had a great hols, juz playing and enjoying, and i din want it to come to an end. secondly, the short sem meant dat things were going to be really packed, and they really are - assignments, projs all squeezed within 6 wks. also, there waz the imminent practicum. this is the tricky part- tho i am quite looking fwd to actually teaching, and its finally coming, apprehension gripped me too, as i thot of how im going to plunge into this whole new world of 'a classroom' very soon. so it waz with all these things weighing on my mind dat i started the sem off feeling sianz. but so far, i think im feeling betta liaoz, meeting classmates and knowing im not alone in these fears and anxieties.
one interesting thing dat happened to me recently waz a conversation i had with a sec 4 kid on msn. this guy added me to his list, and i, being friendly as i alwaz am, added him too, not knowing dat he isnt anybody i know. he, on the other hand, thot i waz one of his teacher in sch, mr lee. and i tried, for the first part of the conversation, to convince him dat, tho im also a teacher, im not his mr lee. however, he simply refused to believe me, and thot i waz juz being lame and trying to be funny. so i gave up trying to convince him otherwise, and began talking to him instead. it waz quite an interesting chat, as i asked him who are the teachers he likes in sch, and why, and somehow, we talked abt his faith, and i waz allowed the privilege to encourage him to take dat faith step to trust and believe in Jesus, rather than wanting to see before believing. somewhere along this rather interesting turn of events, he found out fr his other friend dat im indeed not mr lee, but im glad ive since found 2 new friends coz of this 'beautiful coincidence' [they call it mei3 li4 de4 qiao3 he2 in chinese. *why dun i have such mei li de qiao hes with girls?*] - one, the guy who mistook me for mr lee, and the other, his friend, who told him dat im not mr lee.
the coincidence waz beautiful for, among others, 2 prominent reasons:
1. i managed to share Christ to the first guy, encouraging him to con't attending some cell dat he has been attending.
2. the second guy has since asked me if i can coach him on his chinese.
smile.
both of them are taking their Os this yr. their names are yirong and nic.
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