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SILENCE! Or maybe not...
Had my first ever go at MAJOR invigilation. Not some minor twenty minute MCQ test but a major 1 hour 45 minute paper for the mid year exams (which is a major examination btw for those who have forgotten). At least I tried it and managed to get a taste of what collecting scripts is like. It looked so easy as a student but as a teacher who is actually collecting the scripts, it's harder than it looks.1. You have to give out additional string and hope that there's enough to go around because your students don't read instructions and separate their answer sheets when they're supposed to tie them together. Since they tie idk dead knots, an extra piece of string is thus required and I almost ran out. GOODNESS.
2. Weird students do weird things. Like there was this girl who was too free during the last half an hour of the paper and instead of proofreading her work she took her string and tied ribbons in her hair. When I went to collect her paper she was like 'Wait ah, Ms Siok' and proceeded to try and get the string out of her hair. Obviously she failed and this called for more string. Cue operation Ration String.
3. Meanwhile, the rest of the class caught wind of this situation and while the girl was half tying her scripts and half burying her face in her hands, the class erupted into a cacophony of hoots, cackles and wails. All the noise could give a wet market a run for its money. IT WAS SO BAD AND NOISY. Especially since they knew that there was nothing much I could do being an 'inexperienced' teacher. GAHHHH.
Told the vp that I would be leaving this Friday. I like the vp, especially this one. I like his office. There's a mobile hanging from the ceiling with pictures drawn by his ex-students and his desk is one big messy mess. Yet somehow it shows that he's human, and not some pedantic robot without a heart (not that I am alluding to anyone else let me make this clear.) I will miss this place, and all the laughter and joy it has brought me.
MOST OF ALL, I WANT TO LEAVE THIS PLACE WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE.
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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