Tuesday, June 30, 2009

It is such a joy to see my students again!

It is always a joy to see my students again! They are all looking forward to come to school to learn and have fun. Most importantly, they are here to meet up with their friends and chit-chat.

On the first day, I thought I had sore throat after talking for many hours. However, somehow the voice managed to adapt quickly and on Wednesday everything was back to normal. 3 Dynamic and 3 Thinking are forever so lovely and energetic! My Pure Geography class is ever so obedient and quiet except for the 3 Respect boys. But I like them nonetheless because boys are meant to be noisy, isn't it? 4 Asp-Ent Geography elective class was very serious but also very tired as well. Imagine that they had to sit through numerous lessons before it ends at 4pm day after day. That is really tiring. However, everybody went through that stage in life. I went through that as well many years ago. When I cracked some jokes here and there, it happened to lighten the atmosphere and made the class laugh for 1 second. All right, that is not a total success but that is also not a total failure as well, right?

I am praying hard that H1N1 will not hit our school and if possible, I hope it will leave Singapore. It is so disruptive and there are so many interesting events that are cancelled due to this virus. Tourists have fallen by 15% after Singapore is listed as the affected country. With fewer tourists, hotel and entertainment industries will be badly hit. Coupled with the current economic crisis, it will only make matters worse. If money is not coming into the country, more people will suffer. So let's pray hard that things will improve in the near future.

Monday, June 22, 2009