treading gingerly we walk circles around what we think may cause pain
or set up fortified strongholds to protect what was once broken


would that I be God and dive straight in

0530 reflections

i do wonder how many mirrors it takes to make enough angles to get five hundred and thirty reflections.


waking up at 530am in the morning on the other hand, has truly been amazing. yeah... it was a fantastic learning experience and all that... but seeing Daddy God work in so many things throughout the three weeks was simply awesome.


tremendous favour...

everytime i talk with another teacher... who is unhappy about this 'n' that... i realise how easy it is to step on someone's toes in the staffroom... and just how much favour i have with the teachers i'm working with. that not just my mentor but the other teachers bother to talk to me when i ask questions - there were just so many tips on teaching from them. and this 'cher that i spoke to for about 5 min after observing his class actually passed me a book as a farewell present... oh and the principal agreed to help me with my fyp questionnaire thingy - less work for me!


i think i've been blessed with a tremendous amount of practical wisdom this attachment... learning and watching the different styles of teachers. having a project with so much pedagogy that we had to get our heads around - a project that really required thinking in order to make the lesson plan and defend its purpose... it was a stimulating 3 weeks unlike the survey based projects. perhaps we didn't get to learn as much about the school structure and stuff, but that can always be picked up. the teaching tips on the other hand i think were invaulable - things like that can only be caught not taught..


comparing experiences with some other people... i can only be thankful that i didn't have anyone making me campaign for something i didn't believe in... didn't have to stick my nose into other people's business to evaluate them (esp since i'm just a small fry)... i learnt a lot more than i contributed... and had fun to boot. talk about grace and favour in the workplace. Daddy rocks.

wait until you're back for good

i woke up yesterday with stuff in my eye as usual...

what was unusual was that one eye was completely red and puffy and the surface was kind of swollen.. like if i looked to either side i could see the skin folds of the eye (eww.)

so today i went to the doc... cos it looked gross and i didn't want to teach with a red eye. and he said 'you have sensitive eyes...'

how useless.

me: eh then it's gonna be like that for the whole of summer?
doc: yeah you just have to wait until you're in singapore for a long long time so your eyes get used to it

*pekchek*

$34... for 5 min of shining a light into my eyes and steriod eyedrops. ohwell.


haha. should have just claimed healing and waited (though granted it's less uncomfortable now)
but i think i wouldn't want to take joshen's suggestion to put anointing oil on my eye (the eye. omg... not the eyelid...)

or maybe i didn't

so much for blessing someone.

Daddy blessed me instead! lol. i'm not complaining. hehe.
forgot to blog yday - fell asleep at 7pm, woke at 12am and went back to sleep till 6am (oh the luxury)

but. they tracked down the person who took the 60 bucks! and are crediting it back to my account yay =) i should say 'credited' since it happened yesterday. but WOW. that means i got blessed by a 10 buck voucher and free ice cream over and above having the money restored. hurrah for Daddy God. awsomeness.

tmr is D-day for my first lesson taught in a primary school.
pray pray pray. i = scared.

today i blessed someone

60 bucks......

and how?

i went to draw money but was thinking about other things... and then i took my card and left the money there. thank God the bank was open (on a sunday! amazing) and they're gonna trace it...

*shrug* ohwell. i got free ice-cream and a coffee bean gift card worth $10 bucks from standing there and making the poor guy's life difficult. now that's really supernatural favour man.

i should blog about the attachment... maybe if there are interesting occurrances in class starting tomorrow heh.

novice 'chers

okay i take back the slack part.

we have to come up with the lesson proposal for two levels by friday... along with the rationale behind each activity... as well as a scoring rubric... then these thingys will be implemented in the next two weeks and we'll have to revise the report accordingly.

so for now... not slack at all methinks

waking up at 6am

i thought there'd be something more 'concrete' that we'd be doing... but nope, for the next few weeks we're gonna come up with an experimental plan for outdoor learning that has to take place indoors cos of H1N1, attempt carrying it out in the second week... and finalise the proposal in the last week.

right.

i thought it would be different....
we played taboo in the lounge today while waiting for time to pass cos we didn't have computer access and it was kinda hard to do research.

then again. all things work for good i guess... aside from the waking up time... the work itself is pretty slack - just that we're on completely new ground (yeah even the mentor)

i think i'm really unmotivated cos there's no pay. hmm

windmill-love and more sunsets (9-11 june)

9 june
we woke up early just to go take photos at the windmills we saw at night before catching the ferry from mykonos back to athens. good call i say =)

love <3

back in athens we only had time for dinner... and everyone was very nua. so we had dinner and nua-ed and went to bed... and for the first time in the whole trip all of us were in the same room *woohoo*

10 june
woke up late as well then went off to brave the sun and see the acropolis. we were so nua... that every short stretch of walking (the sun was crazy...) we would see some shade and a place to sit down and would stop there fore like 10-15 min. 'take 5' was always more like 'take 20'. it was really really hot though... a 37 deg day and we were walking in ruins with no shade... i didn't have much heart to take photos lol. too busy concentrating on walking and frying in the sun. hilarious though, that after all the climbing and treking in the afternoon (missed lunch)... we came down the hill and saw a gelato shop. and the conversation went something like: 'do you see what i see?' 'i think so' 'GELATO!!!!!!!' cheap thrill man =)

fire trench @ acropolis this bit of the amphitheatre was a replica =( i bet the original is in the brit museum -.-"
junli creating a stone monument for li-en
how amazing would it be to have a concert in the restored ruins?

after the gelato... and lunch/dinner we decided to go to the park to catch the sunset (A LOT of climbing up stairs and slopes and stuff) i was kinda dying by then cos my foot hurt like crazy every time i took a step. and if i walked without putting that part of my foot on the ground my calf muscles would cramp cos the angle required me to use weird muscles -.- but i'm glad we went... awesome photos =) and gosh the trip was just so full of Daddy's goodness. cos we were kinda lost. and we asked this random lady who was watering her flowers. and Thank God she could speak English! like what's the probability of finding someone in a housing area (non-touristy) who can speak really good English?

sunset and the bell tower doggie on the tower
i love the sky
according to li-en... i live in a different planet cos i see things like these when people see normal scenes

11 june
time to go back to london... and fly back to singapore lol
we nua-ed again... then spent the day chilling and shopping for souvenirs (therefore no photos aww.) caught the flight back. thank God we checked the flight time. cos we were all thinking that the flight was 10pm but it was actually a lot earlier LOL. chilling and walking around - i was preparing myself for the next two days of non sleep so i could pack and get to sg in time for chuch camp. at that point i was regretting not flying back one day later lol. but that would compromise camp... so. no regrets now =)