christmas eve

done:

-shopping for christmas presents

-meeting up with different groups of friends

-christmasing performances

not done:

-writing christmas cards

-wrapping presents

-paying back sleep debt

so easy to reduce christmas to a list of to-dos..

"let every heart prepare Him room"

post-recess week

accomplished:

- 2 computer lab reports!

- copied my timetable into my personal diary

- brainstormed (a little) on my lit essay

to be accomplished:

- lit essay for wed

-study for organic chem test next mon

-study for intro to bio test next tues

-jonah outline for sunday sch by thurs

-medley auditions for next sat

 

a hug is all you need at the end of a crazy day:)

Let's not get lost and cry on Sundays

We'll take it a step at a time

Hand in hand

my birthday is in 4 days

9am/FSPS drop off MLEA books

9.30am/BLC tuition w abby

12 noon/Tamp1 shoe shopping w cathy, print photos!

2pm/BLC youth beat - ICE CREAM yo!

6.30pm/NTU freshmen welcome dinner

to do:

print photos for hall!

life coaching hw

mark those WS to get teaching off my back for good!!

sleep, now

4 more days!!

THE.END.IS.NEAR.

but first i need to do a major cleanup of my workdesk, which means clearing a lot of chucked away backlog!! BOO :(

anyway the impossible happened as another potentially major thing may happen in my last week of school, to my class -.-''  my student has suspected HFMD (handfootmouth disease - who's the genius that named it i wonder) but hasn't been diagnosed officially so can't call the crackdown yet. like evacuate n sterilize the classroom... sigh and i'll be telling my students after their test this tues that i'll be gone next week, so i hope they take it well:)

today my sister said a v sweet and funnily mushy thing while we were changing into home clothes - she pulled out the same nightie which i was wearing (yes, we have matching nightgowns, thanks to my grandma who lovingly sews hideous yet incredibly comfy nightdresses for us) and she went "who's gonna wear the same nightie as me when you're gone?" AHHAHAHAH.

oh well. i'm not looking forward to the massive cleanup i'll prob need to do when i move in on sunday... 

but there's the wonderful weekend first! my only break in between schools:)

YEAA looking forward to fri's staff dinner!!!

my new leggings has a nick in the knee

feel like getting different coloured opaque stockings but i don't know if i'll ever have opportunity or guts to wear them out...

busy busy this week:

NIGHT TIME SCHEDULE

mon-marking

tue-colleagues makan

wed-dinner w taariq YAYYYYY

thur-serve babes

fri-dinner and movie w nicole and vee!!

TO DOs

testimonials for nicole and amaryllis

get leaders to call parents for rsvp

start clearing marking backlog so the new teacher won't hate me (whoever it is)

check w admin staff if i'm going for the annual staff dinner on my last day of service

24 days to farewell, 26 days to a new experience!

EXCITED MUCH

in case the sms/tweet/fb update didn't reach you, I GOT INTO NTU BIOSCIENCE YO!!!!! received the letter by post on monday:)

talk about answered prayer:) it makes the tears from the past few months so irrelevant suddenly. i'm really pretty ecstatic! oh and taariq got into UNSW medicine! it's like double celebration:) even tho it means he'll be leaving for years and years:/

now i'll be settling lots of admin stuff for uni, and buying stuff too! need to use up my LDS money from MOE before i send in my resignation. hoping i can get a PDA phone or at least an iTouch (cuz my iPod's busted, but so is my phone). yupp. will do some serious shopping over the weekend! hehe:D

night time scrabble

feel like such a board game geek! we hung out at edwin's place playing card version of monopoly, and later scrabble. taariq kept winning the monopoly and we didn't play points for scrabble so we kinda gave up after awhile. oh and this woman called up midway thru monopoly (it was a very slow 2nd round)

she should be so grateful i uploaded such a nice picture of her (courtesy of facebook of course). ok mel, next time we will rmb to call you for our impromptu and meaningless gatherings. 

calendar for next 2 weeks:

7-10 June (mon-thurs) LTC@JBAC (lim chu kang area)

11-13 June (fri-sun) SnP leaders retreat@JB

14-17 June (mon-thurs) BLC retreat!! @Batam

cool right. 3 camps in 2 weeks. leaving me ONE week of hols to unwind and prep for my last month in sch. hope i get the uni letter soon, hopefully before i leave for Batam. so i can send in my appeal letter if i'm rejected.

PACKING DAYS

LTC- 5 June/6 June evening

Leaders retreat- 11 June afternoon

BLC retreat- 13 June evening

running on wet sand

went running w taariq - from tamp to bedok res! yea not that far but it felt good to stretch my legs and de-stress from another long day in school. it's a crappy feeling to dread going to school, yet you know you have to cuz there's just so much to do.

taariq came up with this awesome plan to help me with my marking! we're gonna stay out and mark like mad tmr, so i can clear my crazy piles of WS by this weekend and get them to do filing on monday heh... YES i'm so inspired! FINISH MARKING WOOOOOH!

hope i can practice my headstand tmr:/

8 more days to hols

2 days to physical proficiency test

finally, the weekend!

everyone's getting a Tumblr! ok i admit, it does look kinda cool and the templates i've seen on my friends' blogs are pretty seamless n hip and less sec sch kiddy than my own blog.. but i'm v proud of how maany posts i've chalked up here already!! so nope i'm not gonna burden my brain with figuring out new blog stuff (and blogspot heaves a sigh of relief).

ok this post is gonna be kinda crappy cuz i havent showered and i feel sticky and gross and its the 3rd night in a row i'm staying up. let me just VENT out my weekend to-do list to make myself feel better (or motivate me to do what i have to rather than watch Grey's Anatomy Season 5 which my sis rented)

i refuse to upload a picture of everyone in scrubs (although that's what they're usually in) cuz seriously no one looks good in scrubs! and only the docs in the shows look cool in those labcoats, not nerdy.

ok, to-do list!

1. STRESS lesson for Youthbeat (i know, appropriate right)
2. mark Math WB 20 pages x 30 books (YES, backlog)
3. send in my weekly lesson plan (the first of many attempts to be more professional)

hmmm. ok i'll get to work now. after my shower:) toodles!

and i wanna wish you well

1. prep lesson on stress for YouthBeat
2. mark compo book so they can do another one
3. mark math WB so they can do corrections before i start the new topic on Length
4. think about what to wear to animal farm the play
5. pray very hard about the people that have been bothering me
6. pray very very hard for myself
7. sleep (early)

just an ordinary day

to do:

1. mark math WS
2. mark math WB
3. mark english compo
4. drench all the books i haven't marked from Term 1 with red pen ink
5. letter informing parents about classroom syllabus for T2
6. comments for students for report book
7. subject allocation thingy (some form teacher admin)
8. prepare for psalm appreciation night!
9. clear my room floor of clothes
10. shower
11. pray
12. sleep

i think i'll start somewhere from the bottom:P

oh today my student asked me "miss lee what is 'bored'?" and for once i found that i couldnt explain it in simpler english, i actually resorted to using chinese. dunno whether to be annoyed at my lousy walking dictionary skills or be proud of the fact that i used my mother tongue and was understood. or in my students' words dunno whether to be "happy or sad" - cuz that's the only 2 human emotions in their vocabulary. "how do you think she felt when the boy played a trick on her?" "sad" "why do you think the boy decided to trick her?" "he felt happy". i must admit to rolling my eyes at my students. i'm sure you empathise.