The rains have started and the sky is really dark these days. Flooding in some places created massive jams all over. Thankfully I wasnt caught in one. I hate traffic jams - especially since I can't read ( I get a headache) and its such a waste of time. My husband had to go pick up someone at the airport yesterday. He left home at 5pm and reached the airport at 730pm. On a normal day the journey is about 45 min only.
Students generally were not in the mood to study and frankly teachers werent in the mood to teach. But of coz you can't tell the kids that. My Geog classes had to do a project on flooding near their homes. The day before I got a call from one of students who claimed the whole class hadn't finished their project and he wanted an extension - I didn't know what to say so I just told him any person who doesn't hand in will just face the consequences. (What he didn't know was that I hadnt thought of what were those consequences. Later I decided to give zero if they didn't finish. But I guess the threat worked. Only 1 group hadn't finished. Their excuse ? they can't work together. They didnt even try. The boy just said " I asked you to change group but you refused saying nobody would want to work with me". What I meant was he wouldn't be able to work with anyone so might as remain in this group. I didnt waste time in giving him a zero. You see the kids here have a very loose sense of deadlines. They just try their luck anyway to see if they can extend.
My form class was moved to another floor to prepare for coming open house. What I forgot to tell them was the room was freezing cold. The poor things were squirming in their seats. I had to give them a test first. So after that to warm up I came up with a modified version of musical chairs - meaning there is no music. Just the changing. They had loads of fun and warmed up a bit. Later after doing some more work they wanted to play somemore of this game. Strange I thought coz to me it really was a really childish game. I don't know what they found interesting about it.