Touched by a......10-year old!!

28th April 2006-Sports Day!!

Was totally touched today....its a short day today as the kids are already in their "off" mood for the long weekend for the Labour Day holiday. I had to take some boys in their Maths lesson today..as usual, there's something about boys and their ego...doesn't seem to change with AGE eh? Some kids gave me trouble again, a group of about 6-7 were writing lewd stuff on paper and passing them around giggling and laughing...and simply refused to OWN UP that they have done wrong..

The form teacher and me got down to "decipher" the code, "Who wrote this line?" "Write your name beside that line!!" But as always...no one dared to admit himself writing the vulgarities. We questioned this group of boys together with the form for a good 45 minutes!! Until one boy finally broke down and cried!!

Released them to go home to get their stuff, while i was still fuming..had to catch a plane to Sarawak that evening rushed to get my luggage and passport.

Arrived at scorching hot Hougang Stadium at 1235pm and was assigned CROWD CONTROL. Imagine with me ppl, how to you do CROWD CONTROL with a group of noisy Secondary and Primary school boys, all excited for the Sports Day? Aiyoh!!!! I met the the boy who was crying earlier on. To my surprise, he was waving his hands around," Miss Tham, Miss Tham, MISS THAM!!!" I was really surprised....just barely a few hours ago, I was there scolding you and you were crying...now you are welcoming me??

Learnt another hard lesson that day, how kids, especially boys could be so forgiving, chinese say" Bu2 Ji4 Chou2". My heart was still feeling awful from the lecture that i had given them..WOW....this is really a good lesson for me..

Was queueing up for the ice milo (rem those lil green coupons that we used to get when we were in pri sch?) this sweet little scout from the notorious class in my earlier post, came up to me,(the scouts have to first give up their Milo to teachers first) my fellow teacher standing beside me reached out to take the cup, but he went "Miss Tham only..." AWWWwwwwwwww..... i really could not stop smiling!!!!

Lord, my heart is won over by these 10 year olds!!!

:)