Working Life..

My life for the past week and the next 2.5 months would be as follows: Wake up at 6am and be in bed by 10.30pm on weekdays. I shan't be going into the details of what I do in between those times as I don't wish to indulge in the favourite hobby of the people in my profession: Complaining. All I want to say is that getting a bunch of 13-14 year old kids to shut up and listen to you is no easy task. My perception of a certain group of people has been reinforced through this 1.5 weeks. Shouting doesn't work. So does staring. Maybe I should start taking drastic measures once I officially take over the classes. Whatever it is, I hate discipling kids. At times, I wish they could stop being so talkative and disruptive. Ok, I shall quit whinning.

At least the week ended on a positive note. Managed to build rapport with some of my sec 1 students through my first CCA meeting. While testing out the grand piano with my current favourite song (Guang Liang's tong hua), the kids who were surrounding the piano actually sang along. I was really pleasantly surprised. It's quite a satisying feeling when there are people who appreciate my music and request for repeated playings. There was even one student who asked me to teach her how to play! It got me to realise that not all of them are so disobedient after all. Anyway, the ironic thing is that their current music teacher knows nothing about pop music. When the students approached him to play a song, he told them he only knew how to play Classical music. Immediately, the kids weren't interested already. I don't blame them. What would a neighbourhood school student know about Beethoven's music?

Exhausted. Bedtime.