Monday, August 28, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAZZA!!!
*hugglez*
Wishing you a year filled with lotsa fun and happiness!
You have always been there for me... through the good and bad...
I am so grateful to share a friendship with you...
May we always be there for one another till many more years to come...
Love you! *muah*
my thoughts @ 5:08 PM
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Being ages since my last decent post. Sorry for the lack of updates guys. I have been super busy. I have so much on my plate atm that its stressing me out!
I have been at my kinder placement every Monday since the start of the semester. I'm not enjoying it as much as I thought I would. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to be starting my 3 week block. I'm not looking foward to it. I had such a great placement last semester in primary school that I just can't get back into the structure of kinder. The children are gorgeous, as always, but it doesn't seem enough this time. Not enough to actually WANT to go back to kinder. My teacher is nice... as a person... but as a teacher, I don't really like her style. And that's fine, obviously teachers are going to have different ways of teaching and I'm not necessarily going to like them all. But she's not going to be here for the next three weeks. She's on a committee and the head of the committee is going to be away for some reason, so they asked her to fill the role. So now she'll be off doing that while a replacement teacher will fill in for her. I hope she's nice!
Went to a 21st party last night... yes, I think that's the last of them... and it was a 1920's themed event. Everyone dressed up for it and looked so cool! I really felt like we were in the 1920's! hehe.. the gurls were so cute wrapped in their feather boas and with feathers in their hair. It was themed 1920's because it was part of a game we played. We played a murder mystery. I was so confused about what we had to do. I've heard of it before, but never actually played it. I eventually understood what we had to do but by then it was too late. The game was over. haha. Our team wasn't so good at the gmae... but hey! Our team did guess the correct muderer! =P It was quite fun. We got into 6 teams and got funny names. haha... Kelvin got the best one. haha. 'Luke Warm'... hahahaha... he's not HOT... only LUKE WARM... hahaha... alright, you had to be there to get the full effect. hehe. I was 'Ann Onymous' haha... (hence Mel's posting on my tag board). Other names included 'Drew. Ablank', 'Jim Nasium', 'Ruth Less', 'I.P. Freely', 'Travis Dee', 'Con Descending'... etc. I was so amused by them. hehe. So in our teams, we competed against each other for clues. The game started slow... but quickly turned around when everyone started stealing clues from other groups. haha. Not only did it become interesting but it became somewhat violent! haha. People were grabbing each other, poking them, seducing them (!), tickling them... haha... it was fun to watch.. until it started happening to me! (*looks at melly and chi*). Overall it was a fun night. It was different. I enjoyed it.
Anyways, gotta get back to all the one hundred and one things to do. I'll be MIA for the next three weeks. So don't bother coming to look for me. hehe. =P
i miss my dearest jess and ling already...
i'm not going to see them for another 3 weeks! so sad... =(
my thoughts @ 6:54 PM
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Good deed for today:
Helped an old lady with directions on the tram.
my thoughts @ 9:14 AM
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Friday, August 11, 2006
One step closer to fulfulling part of my dream.
I went to a VIT (Vitctorian Institute of Teaching) information thingy today. It was quite helpful. It went through how to register as a teacher and how to fill out the application forms properly. But it was also helpful in the fact that it made me realise how close I really am to becoming a teacher.
For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a teacher... or to do something with kids. During VCE I thought about becoming a child psychologist... actually I still am thinking of becoming one but not just yet. Its funny how I've thought about life up until uni but beyond that, well its never really been seriously thought out. Like I've always known that I'd go to primary school, then highschool, complete VCE, get into a teaching course (never thought about applying for any other course) and study for however many years. But I've never really thought about what happens after I graduate and becoming a teacher. Sure I've thought about the future in the past in the fact that the other part of my dream is to go overseas to teach, but I always viewed that as been so far away that I didn't have to worry about accomplishing it now. But just think, 4 years has passed so quickly. In another 4 years I could be off to the UK or Japan or Italy! It's really not that far away.
Lately I keep repeating in my head 'I'm going to become a teacher!' To be so close to making a dream come true is an amazing feeling. A teacher! migosh... it sounds so surreal everytime I think about it. Yet I really am going to become one in less than 6 months. Its a scary thought yet so exciting. And unlike most people, I can't wait to start work!!! The process of becoming a teacher is tough though. There is a lot of paperwork and research to be done before applying for a job. But once you pass all that and start teaching, I guess its worth the effort.
"Time spent teaching is never wasted"
my thoughts @ 9:57 PM
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