4 hours with 24 pre-schoolers and here I am saluting to all the pre-school teachers.It's a noble(and damn hard) job.What would all the parents do without you people to take the kids off their hands(and mind,i bet) for a short while?Kudos for handling.managing and surviving all the kids.Phew!
Yes it was a tough job..I mean kids everywhere..Everyone wants your attention and you can't possibly split yourself 24 to accomodate all the kids right..Let me give you the run-down the bad and good part of today.
Bad:
-I was thrown(haha exxageration there) into the class without any briefing but just a file on the lesson plan.
-had a bunch of pesky kids who won't listen to you and all they want is for you to succumb to their demands.Especially this one kid whom I always call Randall when his name is actually Darrell but he rather me call him Harry Porker(he's pelat if you are wondering why Harry Porker)
-the kids went to toilet like umpteens times..There must be something interesting in tt darn toilet that make them come for more.In the end I locked the door to the toilet so they can't go in anymore except if they ask me to.
-this one(very cute) kid wet his shirt while of course,washing hand in the toilet.He got so wet that we have to give him a new change of shirt
-A kid shit...yes she shitted in her panties without telling me..and I end up having to worry and call the maid attendant to attend to her.Oh my god...the smell...but the mom apologise to me later on...Boy and I thought the mum would be angry at me for not looking after her daughter well enough.
-the kids ask you the simplest question of all...so menial and insignificant...and they keep asking you over and over again.
-get to see some future ah bengs and ah lians and of course the future minah and mats...Oh man...so young and I can predict how they would turn out.
But you know what..I don't mind though it's not bad...they are kids after all...and they are so cute...serious...extremely cute...which brings me to the next point
Good:
-to be called teacher teacher or Miss Siti
-the very cute and adorable kids...Oh man you should have seen them so cute...especially the malay boys...so cute...they were playing the lego bits and they made this pedang(swords) and call themselves Ultraman Tiga..(and I thought they were palying hang tuah)..There's also this one japanese chinese girl called Yuki..her eyes are so big..
-the drawings they gave me to keep...so cute...and I get to teach them how to draw themselves..
-play number games with them although we keep repeating counting 1 to 5 the whole math lesson...I bet they will nightmares about 1 to 5 tonight...if not I would.
-looking at them play(and fight).
-ordering them(haha) to clean up the place
-listening to them singing the goodbye song and looking at them so happy to tell their parents about the new teacher they have for today.
Ask me if I would do it again.I don't mind.But to make a career out of it...give me 30 days and 30 nights to think it through which I will eventually say No...Haha...But yah as a once in a while thing I don't mind.I get paid..not much but at least I get the experience and have fun at the same time.
I'm tired.
Hanim