Eternal torment: The Search

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Argh, crap. I so have to kll the author of Silk. How could she make Liam a slut?! No...
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Haha. I doubt ANYONE knows what I'm ranting about unless you, like me, are one of those wolves who read fictionpress. :P

Anyways, today I officially started my volunteering stint.

Seriously, i was rather worried because..well, let's put it this way. If you're a paranoid perfectionist WITH a CS/I personality, there's a HIGH possibility, you understand what I'm talking about.

I truly think that Ms Lim is rather sick of me asking her questions. lol

I was to give the dolch word test to an entire class, 1/5.

*Dolch word test: Read 11 lists of 20 words (220 words) most commonly used in the English language like he, red, five etc.*

But my class went missing so i went to help with 1/4. Come to think of it, I finished around ten or so. but it felt like a hundred.

Sure, they were cute and adorable and stuff but it somehow got rather irritating when the kids just can't pronounce MANY words!!! Hell, I admit, I was so tempted to prompt them!

And it was JUST my luck. my first interviewee was this little tyke from CHINA! And he kept speaking mandarin. And yes, I was forced to converse in mandarin. (well, rather a smattering of it. My mandarin is bloody crap. even worse than german. DO NOT GO THERE!)

He understood little english so it was akin to a chicken conversing with a duck. Or maybe even a cat talking to a lizard. And let's just say, he's doomed if a miracle doesn't occur.

What I find funny after a couple more kids, I realised a shocking pattern. They KNOW the numbers but NOT when the number is spelt out in words. I wanted to laugh at first then i wanted to scream. FIVE was one of the "toughest word" for them but strangely, NOT SIX. And yet they were counting, 1,2,3,4,5,6!!! ARGH!

So yup, it was draining but still rather fun. I actually can't wait for tomorrow. What fun to listen to 25 kids saying "cannot". HAHA! (I'm demented because I got retained by my pri sch) Oh the joy to have graduated! The new teachs suck. serious. well, just one teacher. I think if there are any minions or hellspawn there, they'll be screaming and running back to hell with their tails under their legs. she was just too damn fierce!

So yup. tmr I'm doing admin work, my fav part of ANY job. Ok, so maybe I should seriously consider getting my name on the list of eccentric people. Who knows? Maybe i'll topple Bjork aka swan dress freak.

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