Day 4

cannot follow the sec 1 chinese language lesson that i observed today in terms of the vocabulary and evaluating the questions and answers. what i know is the poems used in the lesson were very effective at stirring up the nationalistic feelings in the children. The chinese language teacher read the poems with gusto (coupled with appropriate hand gestures) and she expected the students to read it the same way. A boy was made to read it again because it didnt sound like "你爱我们的祖国”。

this is what is lacking in our EL teaching (or for that matter, in all subjects)since we have the liberty to choose our texts i.e. infusing national education into our teaching and learning. we can talk and discuss until the cows come home about infusing NE into our lesson but if the teacher does not believe in it or do not pretend to like it, the intended outcomes will not be met. haiz.

spent the afternoon cooped up in the hotel doing up the term 3 paper 2 so that i can hand it over to TC. then did the ASPIRE document so that i can arrow the others to fill in their ACTIVE and BRIGHT sections, heh heh. hopefully, they can keep to the deadlines and i will be to get the necessary stuff prepared for the back-to-school meeting on 17 June. Life when i get back is going to be so hectic - school starting, oral one-to-one, N level orals, moving my stuff back, picking up the pieces, move forward, and get healthy :P

havent ran since i reached suzhou so training for my half-marathon has come to a standstill O.o (dave is running 10km every now and then le). but i have been diligent in push-ups and crunches tho the space available in the hotel room is limited. looks like i have to up the ante when i get back.

the people here will be bringing us to visit the gardens and watch some performances tonight. hopefully, the dinner that is provided is hassle-free so that we dun have to “敬酒”repeatedly.

till then ... ...
Army of 1 (for now; physically la)