Escapades of 1A
Last week I went into my class to pass some marked work. They were having Maths and when I looked in I found something was not right . As always, I scold first and then find out the reason later ( or the students come to explain later), some of them had changed place and I was cross they didnt ask the teacher first. So I told them off and ended off that they should have asked for the Maths teacher's permission and I left. Apparently as soon as I left my"angels" turned to the Maths teacher and said" Why didn't you tell Mrs VJ that you gave permission to change places? Then we wouldn't have got scolded - of coz the the teacher didn't give them permission to change - she didnt know so they were asking her to lie to me! Monkeys!
Then two days ago some of the students come outside the staffroom and call me. Once I go out they tell me that the class door is broken. They were trying to shut out a boy from the next class and he pushed the door open. Before coming to see me they took every piece of scotch tape they could find and and fixed the broken pieces back and then came to tell me. I t was very amusing to me but had to take teacher stand and had to ask them to write a report and in the process found out who was at fault. Their actions though I found very cute.
Today I told them I was not staying in the school and that I was going back to Singapore . First reaction? You're coming back right? and when I told them not - then the comments started flying - why must go back? why can't husband go and you stay here? (Can u imagine?)- "oh you stay here - we'll buy you a house". And then the more inventive - " I'll tie you with a chain to the class and lock the door" or " I'll be a pilot of the plane and keep flying in jkt for one hour and then land bk in jkt" or " "l'll hijack the plane until you come bk to jkt" - they are kids at heart and it was touching but at least they didnt react too badly as I has chosen a day when they all were in the right mood to tell them.
Actually I m leaving coz i need a break as I will be coming bk to Singapore early next year but I need a break coz once I start teaching in Singapore no such a long break for me. But difficult to explain to these kids - so easiest thing to say is that I m going back to Singapore.