Friendship day pics at e sch i teach

This was practice before actual day, with Nancy.




Below is the actual costumr parade during assembly (Thai is the tallest purple guy, koreans are the shorter boy and the girl in the red hanbok, china is the red cheongsam girl, myanmar is the blue dress gal)

The only two brave boys - Thai and Korean :)
<==== So proud of the friendship boards which i didn't do alone. 3 of us.

Below is backstage last briefing before actual thing

the "time" of our lives

I hope i have the time of my life with these few more weeks or 1-2 months.
I pray decisions are made, not just any decisions but good 4 year plans.
Not just good but God-focussed ones.
Also people-loving ones. or considerate ones.
Argh......sometimes I want to abandon it all and flee........to a nice country......where there is less stress? And you'd probably only get that in 3rd world nations? maybe........lol.
I need to sleep by 11.20pm everyday to stay sane.
Also....er I have to set up boundaries for friendships....
Lesson plan a whole chunk to save me trouble for later.......

sense

suddenly i realise i can't be talking good news on internet all e time. lolz. i have to be more real or realistic. ok i mean on the blog.

There are Things that i said myself that kept reiterating back to me whole last week and this weekend in partciular as i prepared for a major today: Lesson Observation. I prayed, thought deeply, planned, "Is this going to be feasible?" "Will they cooperate?" "Does group work work better for them or pair or individual?"

Then you realise God is so big that He doesn't need our help to get things done, nor need us to push our way through each door, for us to join matchmaking agencies, or for us to fight and defend ourselves when we are wronged. Then another church sister Repeated this to me after a jog on sunday!

The quote i mentioned in previous post "No one can take your calling away from you. Cos only God can....its 1) personal and between you and God, 2) why would you give up on your own special calling? kept coming back to me as well while preparing for lesson observations. and it HAS to be God cos.....the whole thing went 1) smoothly, 2) the kids totally cooperated and even were at their smartest, most responsive, 3) helped each other solve the problems 4) worked together to solve group problems. They (Donald duck, my cutest student) let out a giggle though, when he realised the whole class was stiff and not their usual self. Incredible Hulk (a student who turns red, clenches his fists and changes facial expression when angry) was amazingly self controlled and alert and cooperative and fast in group work.

the knack for doing this

this 2 weeks have been crazily cool n mysterious. Why on earth literally am i thinking about the whole trip again? i am not que sarah sarah or however its spelt. We should always lead our own lives as to what we like and don't

i just aint going to do crazy things in my life, no not at all, not gonna travel overseas ever, cannot stand the thought of having a smart guy, a guy that communicates with me on the same wavelength, someone funny, that likes people, a guy that is sweet and nice who likes running, who is passionate about God and God's purposes. yeah right.

It has been a long, tiring, fulfilling, week of pursuit of foreign students and their cultures around school. International Friendship day it was. I shall try to put up videos and photos here soon :).

1.08am (sat) which means late fri night
You and i will never ever believe this!! we actually talked on skype video cam. i cannot believe it WAS real as in the whole identity, facebook profile, email thing was real after all.

By the way if you know kids, you will know that they are not behind the scenes warriors nor little warriors, they ARE warriors. build the rapport with them and you'll be amazed at how 1)active, 2) passionate, 3) personal, 4) artistic, 5) loud, 6) persistent, 7) energetic, 8) happy, 9) cute, 10) sensitive, 11) friendly, 12) generous, 13) forgiving after fighting with their friends, 14) worked up 15) brave, they can be.

They, whoever, can't take a desire away from you. People or humans can't take a CALLING can't take a burning passion and deep-set persevering abiding vision and mission from you. It may take a longer time for you to find what you love in life but when you do, you will realise the falls, the failure, the heartaches, the headaches earlier were all worth it. They were closed doors, training ground, places and situations whecre the wounded can learn to heal. Only those who were truly hurt and healed can help heal others.

adrenalin

These weeks I have been facing quite a bit of adrenalin. Blame it on a movie i watched by my favourite actress since Sec 2, Drew Barrymore. She just directed her debut movie Whip it! There, girls go crazy and loud and very active in their pursuit of their heart's passion: Rollerskating. It gets violent but there were serious values it, which was 1) A mother-daughter relationship, or rather parent-teen relationship, how the parent learns to let the teen choose her path. 2) The teen following her heart and not what others' said or suggested her to do. 3) the value of waiting for her time to dive into her dream. 4) an older girl told the younger girl she took many years from teenage to 31 to find what she loved.

The past week i was in that I got things i never received in my whole life, though it was nothing compared to how it would have felt as a student.....something to do with a teachers' relay race. Our guest of honour at the sports day was C. Kunalan!! who was an Olympian in the 1970s. He gave a speech and prizes to winners. 10 point something seconds for 100m sprint.

Also talking to some friends from 2004 whom i met on a trip got me thinking back into 2006, when i had this dream of going overseas to work......i forsee a road filled with obstacles, challenges yet stretching.....but i still hope to be able to try....

devaluing a problem

i just cannot devalue a problem! how can you say that a problem is not a problem or "nothing big" or "something small".........."you'll get pass this stage"............

Anyway this is what's been happening: I have been upset about some stuff at work and as much as I have bene trying to, on my part to resolve it, i don't know if it's finally reached the resolving things stage! So this is one example of another incidence or situation where I have to really get on my knees and pray hard. seek the One who knows it all, is Alpha and Omega.

And if i had the courage i would tell one of my friends, Mr X (not linked to name at all), that i was glad that he actually came to join us. but that's all....maybe it's cos i miss the past...? i duno......this is tough to figure out.