Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Shit...
Of all times to have a blackout, did it have to be when I was home alone?!Now my internet connection is all screwy.
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 23:13
Whoever said school was boring?
2nd day of school and I'm already feeling DRAINED!There's just so much to do and I'm stoked to see what the rest of the year is going to be like!
Last year I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Corinda SHS Expo that happens once every 4 years. This year, I am fortunate enough to be a part of the bi-annual Corinda musical, as the PROPS CO-ORDINATOR!! This was because at the new teachers induction, I mentioned that my passion other than teaching was art and craft (all thanks to cosplay LOL) and Amy, one of the new drama teachers told the Drama HOD about it and WAHLAH! I find myself holding the script to the Corinda SHS Musical! *squee*
Lessons have been going great so far! I'm slowly learning my students' names which is great, seeing I see them during form, Math and Science. Not to mention I have other students outside of my form class from my 2 Mandarin classes and my Year 9 Math.
Although I have yet to meet my Year 9 Math and my 2nd Mandarin class, I find myself looking forward to the new faces.
My first lesson of the week was Junior Science with my 8s and they were so cute. We were discussing how Science is used in different jobs such as a nurse, engineer, chef, police etc. According to them, a chef needs to know chemistry in order to mix food together and the police needs to know human biology so he can shoot people without killing them and physics to calculate the speed of a person running away.
Did I mention the headache they kept giving me by constantly digressing from the subject?
"Miss, what's the difference between the FBI and the police?"
"Miss, what does FBI stand for?"
"Someone told me it was Female Body Inspector."
Oh gosh, these sweet little things... NOT. They're wolves in sheeps' clothing! Haha... And I thought they were all so quiet at the beginning of the day.
My Mandarin class was even more quiet. These students have never taken Mandarin before so they had no idea what to expect. I introduced a e i o u to them and the 4 intonations that went with it. They struggled a bit but they pulled through in the end, I just had them think like they were in a music lesson. xD Now to be a good teacher you gotta be able to suss out whether your students are engaged or not. I could tell they were getting a little tired of practicing the pronounciations so I decided to start them on basic words and phrases I'd use. Which worked out really well and got the class involved with standing up, sitting down, raising their hands and everything. Lucky for them, next lesson is going to be learning about the Chinese culture! That should be fun.
At least now I know what to do when I go into my 2nd Mandarin class for the first time. :D
Anywho, wish me luck with the rest of the year! I gotta get started on reading through the script for the musical and taking note of the props to be used, planning my Year 9 Math lessons, drawing up a birthday chart and rewards chart for my form class. Oh what fun.
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 17:11
Monday, January 26, 2009
Phew. 1 down, 2 more to go.
I know I said I wasn't going to be online and stuff.. But I can't help but come on just to celebrate!I just finished planning a whole week's worth of Science lessons in just under 2 hours! WOOH.
Mental note, book Science lab for practical experiment and library for Science research.
Up next is Math and we're learning how to write 15 502 843 into words in the first lesson! LOL.
And finally, Mandarin. Yes Mum, I'm definitely going to go right back to the basics of bpmf, else how are they gonna learn how to pronounce all the pinyins? Gotta get some magnets to stick my posters up on the board.
I stupidly forgot to take out a loan from Resource Hire the Yr 9 Math textbook so I'm going to have to get it out tomorrow and rush the planning of the first lesson for Wednesday while I'm at the doctors tomorrow. Got my visa medicals to go for and I'm skipping the very first Dimensions of Learning meeting. >__< Someone remind me to ring Amy first thing in the morning to apologise! T__T
Hm, but if I keep on this track for the next few days, I'll probably have my lessons for the next few weeks all planned out then! =D And then maybe... just maybe. *prays*
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 12:42
Friday, January 23, 2009
zOMG work!!
Sorry guys, but I'll probably not be online on msn, deviantart or facebook this weekend and the coming week.So what if there's a long weekend coming up, my schedule is already packed to the rafters with having to unpack my room and luggage and plan my lessons for next week!! @_@
For the uninformed, I'm embarking on my very first career, my dream job... A teacher! A Math, Mandarin and Science teacher to be exact!
Yesterday and today was pupil free day, so I pretty much was in a bit of a rush in unpacking my work clothes for school. Everything's all jumbled up in my head right now but I think I'll be fine.
My timetable is kinda crap, seeing I have only 4 spare lessons, which are all during Period 1 on Mondays to Thursdays. Meaning no more long morning tea or lunch breaks for me. T___T
I'm quite excited to meet my classes though!!
I have a Year 8 form class whom I will be teaching Junior Math and Science to, a Year 9 Math class and 3 Year 8 Mandarin classes!! The LOTE (Language Other Than English) HOD and the principal have such high hopes of me too! I just hope I can live up to their standards.
Wish me luck everyone!! My first day of work starts on Tuesday! <3
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 16:20
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
At the airport now!
Goodbye Singapore Hello Brisbane!LOLOL. Talk about meeting someone you vaguely know online in real life. xD
Lazybug from SGCafe gave me quite a fright when he asked me "Are you from SGCafe" at the check-in counter at the airport!! :lmao:
Waiting at the airport for my flight now.
It's been delayed for an hour and as much as I want to hog the computer for that period of time, this stalkerish balding guy is walking around checking the time limit left on people's internets.
FREAK! I have 8 minutes left as I type this. BooHoo.
I guess I'll catch up with my NDS. I pray it doesn't run out of battery on the plane or whilst I'm waiting. T___T
Side note. My deviantart is no longer safe. Mum stalks it now. At least she doesn't have LiveJournal! xD
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 23:09
Monday, January 12, 2009
QIAN HU FISH FARM > SUSHI
Today's full of shit and gigglesFirst off, Soul Eater photoshoot at the zoo yesterday! So much fun.
Teaser photo until :iconsongster69: finishes pp-ing the photos!
*HINT HINT ADRIAN* XD
We went on an adventure today! *excited*
Brenda, Emily, Sabina and I drove to Qian Hu fish farm to have a fish spa! Oh my god, how exciting it was.
It was the furthest I've driven since I got my driving license, without any adult supervision, and with only a directory to help us find our way. How exciting! Haha...
But before that..
Church in the morning, and :icon13-zer0: came along! xD Sabina's Jewish so I thought maybe she might like to see what Catholic church is like. I'm never complaining about church being long again. Apparently Jewish masses(?) last for THREE hours!!! Phew.
After which we went to the Botanic Gardens to feed the fishes. (stopping at SPC for 2 loaves of bread first DUH!)
You shoulda seen them swimming around like mad to get to the bread! xD
Check out this gif I made out of some photos that were taken. 8D
Had lunch at the Gardens before driving to Qian Hu fish farm for a fish spa! We had such an experience there! The fishes were so ticklish! We first tried the small fishes and we kept laughing and squealing so much that the other people around us were staring and laughing at us! xD
And then we moved on to another spa that contained bigger fish. Apparently, bigger fish = bigger sensation. LOL! That's for sure!!! Now our legs are all smooth and dead-skin free! *sparkles*
Moving on, we decided that since it was only about 2pm-ish we'd go to the frog farm. We thought it was nearby but apparently it was at Kranji! Gah. But damn, it was definitely worth going to!!
We bought $2 worth of food to feed the frogs and fishes but guess what. We ended up getting probably about $10 worth? xD Because we spotted what we thought was a dustbin which really turned out to be a bin full of food!! :iconohohoplz:
And we paid $8 there to get a net, fish tank, fish food and the permission to fish for 4 fishes... We used them to catch tadpoles, transfer them in our empty food container and then reuse the tank to store our 17 fishes! 8D
So we got tired and decided to go home but OHMYGOD our journey home took 3 TIMES AS LONG!! Mainly because we got lost on the way back. >A<
Well, Mum always told me to keep left on the highway because it was the slow lane. But dammit! My exit was actually on the right!! So I kinda missed it and we got lost on the highway. LMAO. Oh wells. xD
Dinner at Nihon Mura!!! :heart: WEEEEH.
Source of amusement. 8D
Meet Sabina the Walrus. xD
Ok, enough talk, check out the photos!
It's the fish farm!!
Fishie!!!!!
OMG FISH SPA!
Oh shit it feels funny!!!
OMFGGG!
Getting used to it now. xD
Moving on to the bigger fish!
Check out Brenda's feet! xD
Sabina can't take it anymoar!
Playing koi
OMNOMNOM FEED USSSS!!
Kissing fish! :smooch:
Angel fish!
Sucker fish.
Wow. Check out the huge expanse of road!
Frog farrrrmmmm~!
Frog sex. 8D
Um.. Frog leg anyone? xD
Tadpole!
SALMON SASHIMIIII
Lemon. Ew.
How gay.
Seeing red
Chickys.
I like my new Grell lookalike glasses. xD
Cherry!
Posted by chibified kitsunes at 02:43
Sunday, January 04, 2009
I'd rather die from embarrassment than...
Let my body get hurtW00tz0rs! First post of 2009 from me! xD
I bet you lot are wondering what my title is about huh!
Haha...
Went to the Botanic Gardens with the family today. Awesome fun it was. Got a new tan, bonded with the cousins, ate junk food and ran into two cosplayers from Odin's Sphere doing a photoshoot there. LMAO.
And then if all the games we played today didn't make me feel sporty enough..
Namely, "What's the time Mr Wolf?", "Captain's Ball", "Monkey in the Middle", "Frisbee", "老鷹捉小雞, "Volleyball" and "Soccer"...
We went to CCAB to play basketball in the evening too!
Which brings us to my title. 8D
Stupid Bosco hit me down and sent me skidding across our court into the other half of the court.
Apparently the skidding sound was SO LOUD the players on the other side of our court actually stopped and looked to see what had happened! OAO
But I guess they figured that if I was able to yell at Bosco for pushing me down I was A-OK so they turned back to their game.
Brenda was saying she was so embarrassed for me because everyone was looking at me sprawled on the ground! Bwahaha!!!
Here's a gif I made to give you a better idea. T_T
First thought that went through my head when I realised my knees were fine, "Oh thank god. I can go through my next two photoshoots. PHEW!!"
LMAO.
I had purposely lifted my knees and legs up just so I could save them from being scraped on the ground!! xDDD
That and because my skin there is very sensitive and tender seeing I had scraped my knees open 3 times before, and is now scarred with keloids.
The things I do for cosplay.
Sacrifice my dignity to keep my body in perfect condition. *cackles*
Almost perfect though. I kinda scraped my elbow but it should be fine by Saturday for the Bleach and SE shoot. x3