Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Cokey?

Meiren, i was about to ask you what you meant by cokey... but then i realised i was the one who declared it...
Can i eat my coke?
Because... I'm being tortured by my class!!! Boo Hoo...
I have 8 kiddies this year... 7 year-olds.
3 Downs- 1 ok, 1 playful, 1... (i'm so wanting to bite his head off)
1 ADHD (he's quite good actually)...
1 with gross motor problems... meaning, he topples easily. Meaning his mommy would feel like biting my head off if he falls down. Hooray...
1 Kabuki (who always whines about going home and gets violent and cries when she cannot go home...)
1 Angel (who is pining for her bf, who's in another class this year)
1 EPILEPSY. Last straw.
Initially, i was supposed to take the class alone when my partner goes on maternity leave. Crazy.
I told the school auntie that if i have no relief teacher coming today, i'll lock myself in class with all my kids. Not because i wanna get up close and personal with them. I'll juz slap diapers on all of them, ask them to help themselves to their own food and water, and lock myself in a cupboard.
haha!
i had 2 helpers for the past 3 days. And i still can't cope.
I'm already so crap at classroom management... i'm crap at classroom management... i repeat. im absolutely totally hopelessly crap at classroom management
Its always so hard to decide which course of action to take...
Do i want to be like my colleague... she's stern and fierce.. so her class is ANGELIC.
But... i don't want them to hold me in awe... i want them to enjoy school and class...
BUT while they are having the time of their lives... their teacher is contemplating taking her own life.

Strike a balance, you'd say. OK. Tell me how.
I realised that once you are nice to them... and you turn fierce on them, do they get scared? For 3 seconds maybe.
But after that they forget and start hating you for scolding them. haha

bloody hell.

OK.
I'm still gonna be positive about it.
I'm gonna read up on classroom management. And other strategies...
You 7 year-olds think you can drive me up the wall?
Dream on! I have huge metal cupboards. I'll lock myself in one of the cupboards.
Together with ALL THE TOYS. So you can spend your time playing with NOTHING. Na~nananana

WAHHHAH!

Luckily they are cute. Else i'd really have ran out of school, screaming my head off then get run over by an Isuzu truck.

This is coming from someone who wakes up by 5 am every morning.

And someone who fell asleep on train from YCK to JE for the past 2 days. And no one bothered to wake me up though its the terminal stop. BOTH TIMES.
I had to wake up myself and realised that everyone has alighted.
Idiot singaporeans.
If you see someone asleep at terminal stop (except marina bay), pls wake the person up, even though the person may wanna go round and round Singapore for sight-seeing (in her dreams, that is) CHECK la.
YOu know how frustrating it is to wake up at some stop and realise you've missed ur stop, and you're already so freaking tired you wanna drop dead there and there on the floor and you can't take cab back coz of the fare hike and you HAVE TO stop, cross over to the other side, and take the train AGAIN!
You wouldn't have fallen so soundly asleep in the first place if you're not really truly tired right?!
So pls... do someone a favour, don't be so shy CAN?!

ANYWAYZ
just wanna complain abit. you know.. abit. abit only la.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Meiren,

it was already tiring enough at yck with one kid and two volunteers for only 3h. YOu have alot on your plate!
So it's not you really... Special kids do need special teachers like you, and you're trying your best! =D

*hugs*

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