Saturday, November 24, 2007

YAY!!! It's over for now!! On PAID LEAVE!!!!!

YAY!!! It's over for now!!! On PAID LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes! One semester's over at last, n it passed super super fast actually!! Such tat I had no time to blog until now...sadz...Anyway, life in NIE is like, u dun need to complain bout monday blues on sunday, cuz friday will come again in no time..hahahaha!!!! so is tat gd or bad??? hehe....Thank God for strength through the semester! :)

So, de last week of school juz ended, and as usual, de last week is one of de busiest week before can go on paid leave..haha...firstly, i had quite a major chem assignment to hand in, and i actually only started working at it (includes detailed lesson plan, slides, student copy WS and ans too..haiz..) one day b4 de submission day. So tat costed me a nite wif only an hour of sleep, and de best thing is tat de next day, i had an oral test (on de spot make a 3min speech wif 10min preparation time given), and after de oral test hav to go to a primary sch to conduct a day camp for em...quite a busy day!! And de reason y i din start doin tat assignment earlier was bcuz on de daybefore, I had to bring kids to sentosa for an excursion...haha fun but tiring....

Anyway, de sentosa excursion thing n de day camp at a sch were part of my GESL proj, a proj where we hav to do community service as a group. So at Sentosa, we went to underwater world n dolphin lagoon, which I've not been there for a long time liao!! (and fortunately we din go to the insect and butterfly park...cuz i'm quite terrified of having insects flying around me..haha i'll use an umbrella if i hav to go to tat kind of place) Then we had this walking trail where we had to bring our group of kids around sentosa like hiking in a quest to answer some questions in their booklet...abit like a mini form of Amazing Race. And I had 3 kids in my group together wif another leader, 2 boys, 1 girl. 1 boy is de typical kind of pri sch kid who dun like to get close to girls, another boy is the kuai and cooperative but kinda nerdy one, and de girl turned out to be quite accident-prone cuz she fell down twice throughout de whole hike.

But de whole hike was quite interesting lah, cuz i had de chance to go places in sentosa where i seldom go, and it seems like sentosa's been renovated quite alot! Haha..n i realized tat de kids r actually quite smart too! Like there was a question in their booklet that goes, "I can grant you your wish. I appear in many stories and help the kind characters. I live among the flowers. COme find me! (Hint: I can fly)" Can guess de ans?? haha de ans is a fairy, and de kids cld guess it quite easily! But when i was tinking bout it, i was tinking along de line of sth tat is a living thing that flies n lives among flowers haha...seems like my child-like imagination is not working too well anymore... And they also had to ans questions like give examples of 5 different insects/mammals/fishes, and they cld actually rem their science quite well!! Thankfully de other leader wif me is a bio tcher, so he noes those stuff...haha if it were me, i tink if de kids juz whack any uncommon insects wif funny names (like leafy dragonfish, madagascian hissing cockroach...), i might not know if that is an insect anot...haha.. worst still, i might not even noe tat such an insect or mammal exist...lol...so they can bluff thru quite easily if i were de one testing em...haha but tat wasn't de case..hee...

Anyway, here r some pics taken during de project... :) enjoy!