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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

  • Better Together Journal Reflection #2

    Love is an act of the will.



    How can you show love to an unlovable person in your life?

    Reflection: At school. show patience, care and support for those boys who challenge me in class. Instead of getting upset easily, try calm down my 'boiling' internals and ask them and myself: how can we make this work? How can I build a relationship with them?

Monday, 19 December 2011

  • Better Together Journal Reflection #1

    Life is about learning to love.

    What does love mean?


    "Although love can create intense feelings, love is not a feeling. It is a choice, an action, a way of behaving, a commitment. Love is sacrificing for others."

    I agree with the sentence "Much of the world has no clue as to what real love is all about. Songs that say 'I need you, I want you, I must have you' are not love songs, but lust songs".

    Reflection: To love others is to think for others and take action to serve others' needs, without expecting things in return.

    Question: When it comes to people other than my family, I can be completely selfless. However, I can be very self-centered when I am around my parents and boyfriend. I am conscious of my mentality, how can I change it?

Thursday, 08 December 2011

  • My honeymoon at work is over.

    Yap, as the title says, my honeymoon at work is over. And that took me a long time. Now, I no longer am soft and lenient, instead, I am learning to be tough and not allowing any monkey business in my classes any more. I find that being a young female teacher facing groups of teenage boys can really be a hurdle. However, this is the first main thing I'm working towards in my career. I think I'm starting to develop some sort of strategies now to set the tone for each class I teach as well as supply.

    What still gets me the most, at this point into Term 1, the CFL idiv boys are still pissing me off. It's so easy for them to ruin my good mood in a whole day but just being absolute RUDE and DISRESPECTFUL in every way possible. All the afternoon hours I spent in there feels like a waste of times for me most of the time. Even though there were a few good sessions, but compared to the majority, I worry that they are getting nothing done and their grades continue to drop.

    Anyways, those problems are there to be solved. This will be a tough challenge.

    We just had our house Christmas Party, it was fun :) I got all boys and faculty to sing the song I wrote to Owen. He was blushing and I think he enjoyed it. Tomorrow will be the staff Christmas Party. It'll be fun I hope!

    Well that's it for now!.

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Monday, 05 December 2011

  • Letting off steam

    Today, I was so PISSED and letting off a lot of steam because kids ticked me off in every class. As a result of staying up late two nights in a roll in stealth mode after night duty and catching stupid kids, I was not in a jolly mood to begin with.

    First period, I got the yapping all the time and "that's where we disconnect" IB2; Period 3 I've got the given-warnings-but-still-gaming IB1; Period 4 I've got the challenging my authority kid.

    I've learned a lot since I started working here, and I have to say in terms of discipline, I have learned a lot and boys really don't get it until you are as direct and crude as you can in your language. Straight face.

Monday, 28 November 2011

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