21 May Reflections
OK, so it was station games day again.
I think my this post is going to be very negative cuz i'm super tired now and i'm just using this blog post to vent my irritation.
During
station games, i found out the following things.
~The kids there are very inpolite. Many of them just snatched questions from my hand, then if they took more than 1 sheet, they just crumple and throw it back.
(An even snatch away my pen when i told him they must answer one question by one question. Then i told him if he dont return me my pen, i cannot record score and they wont get any marks. Then one of the other little boys snatched back my pen, gave it to me, and screamed at me to "Faster write down larh!".)
~The kids there don't like to coorporate with members in their group. If one of them takes a question, he/she will not show the other members the question and will just answer it alone. Meanwhile, the other members will attempt to take another question or just poise their hand above the papers so they can snatch a question once the first member finished answering.
~Some kids are ruder than others. Often, the nicer-mannered ones will be bullied.
~Okay, and most of them had no problems with the english questions, maybe except for one or two harder ones, so i guess my questions' level of difficulty is still okay.
Then, i also had a horrible time
tutoring.
I'll call her hui. Yah, i heard beryl tutor her before.
Haiz... she is so so so so so so so hard to teach man.
When i teach, she just simper at me and then doodle flowers on my book.
At first i thought that she cannot concentrate, so i tried to attract her attention back. Well i kind of succeeded, but her attention span only lives for as long as i don't go back to the question.
To illustrate my point, i'll show an example of our conversation.
Me: So now we know lawrence has 5 apples and.....
hui: *simper spastically* Hmmmm......
Me: So how many apples does Mark have in total?
hui: Hmmm...?
Me: How many apples do mark have?
hui: Dunno..?
Me: *Draws model that has 5 units* How many boxes are there?
hui: 77!! Ahhahahah!!!
Me: Hah hah...very funny hor? Be serious la, how many boxes are there?
hui: dunno.
Me: Dunno??!! Five what. There... 1, 2,3,4,5.
hui: *smile happily* Hmmm.....
Me: Hey look here look here. Don't daydream leh. Aye you very bored issit? *Chat abt something not regarding maths*
hui: *suddenly super reactive* YAH YAH!! Aye you know right....!!
Me: Oky lar, we do this maths question first can? Then later we chat. Okay?
hui: Okay!
Me: So now we know lawrence has 5 apples and.....
hui: *smile dreamily* Hmmm......
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And the cycle repeats.
Aaarrgghhhh!!!!
Can't stand it!!!
The entire afternoon we only managed to go through 2 questions.
TWO HOURS GO THRU TWO QUESTIONS!!!!
Waa i super sian-ed man. All my patience and energy deplete liao.
Then the worst thing is, when Ja beside me asked one question, i thought, since hui also dont want to listen, i might as well teach Ja first. Since he's at least willing to learn, right?
Then the moment i turn to Ja, hui suddenly super agitated and keep pulling my shirt and saying. "Hey Auntie Cat say you must teach me leh! Not him! Don't care him lar!! If not i compaint to auntie!!!"
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Despite my pissed-off-mood, i still smiled at her and bargained for 1/2 minutes.
But also not much point, cause she keep shouting and trying to disturb whatever i write on my book for Ja.
To make things even worse, at the end of the day, Auntie Catrine(dunno how to spell) called me over and (kind-of) scolded me, "She only did 2 corrections for the entire afternoon?! How come she did two only?!...blah blah..."
I very lamely told her, "Uhh... one of the questions was quite hard and we spent a lot of time going through."
So fake can. Got question hard until need one hour plus to teach meh?
Aaiiiyyyaaahhhh!!!!
Nevermind.
So to conclude, I had a very horrible day at the centre. Bleh...
Labels: 5.21.08, Tuyan
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