invigilating is both boring and fun at the same time. fun because it's pretty cool not being the one taking the exam. watching the kids squirm under your intense scrutiny. collecting papers. commanding people to STOP TALKING when you yourself know how they feel, just itching to discuss what questions they did. muahaha. but it's also freaking boring because you literally have to just sit there for the whole hour watching people doing their work 0.0 thank goodness i was smart enough to bring my book.

so spent the day invigilating and the last two periods with my coform class who PISSED ME OFF SO BAD. of all five p3 classes, they are the ones that get on my nerves the most. because, once they see me, they just think that it's time for them to play. the noise they make in that ENCLOSED classroom is just like 'WHEEEE AHHHH EHHHHHH OOOOOO AHHHHH GIGGLE GIGGLE SCREAM' it's so freaking annoying. and the harsh truth is that they are the class that needs the most instruction, YET they refuse to listen to ANY of the instructions i try to give. i seriously refuse to teach that class alone. two periods of them pissed me off more than the whole of wednesday where i had that p6 AND p5 class the whole day. when they left the classroom, i was so on the verge of just lying on the floor and screaming. in those two periods with them, one thought just kept flashing in my mind - i simply do not have the patience for this kind of students. i mean one hour and i already want to just give up on them. i have complete and utter respect for ferlynn. she is seriously an AMAZING teacher, for being able to control them, for being able to get them to do their work, for getting their grades up way way way beyond their predicted grades. they should seriously THANK their lucky stars that they got her man.

after school i participated in my first block marking. it was quite fun actually. we sit around a table according to our levels. then we benchmark a few sample essays together. and finally, we start marking! it's fun cos everyone's marking together and, it may be mean, but we get to be 'entertained' by some of the compositions. haha by the time we got to my coform class, our table was just basically laughing nonstop. some of the things they write are just so huh?? some seriously aren't even written in english. in fact, one kid's composition consisted of one word - 'the'.

the culture in this school is such that the teachers are always well-fed. haha. one hour into marking, one of the canteen vendors walks in carrying TRAYS of snacks - fries, nuggets of three varieties and chilli sauces. man, you should have seen all the teachers just perk up man. haha. once again, it was one of the teacher's treat :)

anyways, got home to my two very excited parents. because apparently a big envelope from NUS had arrived. haha. got accepted into NUS FASS. it's a relief. and school starts 7 august! hell yeah! :D :D