What a busy week..

~ SUNDAY ~

On Sunday, I had to attend a TLI workshop. Basically its a leadership training workshop for the exco members of a toastmasters club and since I'm the secretary, I had to participate in it. The workshop was from 1-6pm. I thought it would be a boring one and I would be spending 5 hours there dying from boredom. However I was extremely wrong. The whole workshop was pretty interesting and they had excellent speakers. One speaker that really caught my attention is Dennis Wee. Wonderful and amazing slides as well as a great delivery of his speech. You could really tell that he is a really good speaker and that you will never fall asleep listening to him. Through him, I had learnt how to evaluate which turn out to be my topic for my third assignment: Get To The Point. Of course the choice of that topic as my next assignment wasn't my idea..instead its my mentor's who as usual is telling and not asking.

~ MONDAY ~

It was another normal day at work but after lunch time, the teacher I'm under told me that she won't be able to come to work for the whole week! And so I had to take over the classes. She told me what exercises to give the students and all that. With that, I started handling the classes on my own. On that day, I only had 2 classes which I had to handle alone..which is the Std 4 and 5. The standard 4s were very hyper and I feel like I'm more of a friend than a teacher to them. However things can get out of hand with them as they can end up being extremely noisy @@. The standard 5s..overall was okay. They weren't as noisy as the std 4s BUT there were 2 students who definitely is giving me a headache as they always refuse to do their work until near the end of the class =.= .

~ TUESDAY~

On that day I had to officially take over the classes from std 1-6 on my own! I was pretty nervous to start with..handling kids on my own. I started off with the std 2s..they were okay and extremely enthusiastic on that day until they are unwilling to go for their tea break @@. The std 3 was in my opinion the worst class to handle..although they were quiet BUT once they finished their work..the girls started putting dictionaries on their head and walking around the classroom and the boys were reading comics *sigh* I guess I weren't stern enough. Next is the std 1s..and omg they were extremely noisy @@. They keep complaining to me bout each other and all of them were talking to me at the same time that my head feels like its about to explode! Yet another group that treats me more of a friend than a teacher LOL..however they were too cute to get mad on xD. Later in the afternoon were the std 4 and 5 again which is about the same as it was in the first day.

~ WEDNESDAY ~

The third day was approximately the same as the second. All went quite smoothly and I finally got the 2 std 5s to do their work. At first as usual both of them were day dreaming instead of doing and so I set a time limit and it did get a reaction out of them BUT the boy is still day dreaming..and when I actually collect the books when the time is up only then he scramble to finish off his work. I even made him stay back to copy the notes which he didn't copy as he was dreaming away. He even talked back to me =.= .

~ THURSDAY ~

I was back in college! Indeed studying life is still better. Yet another BUT I had toastmasters that night and I had alot of roles to play for that night. I was the table topic master and also will be doing my speech that night. I haven't prepare the questions for the table topics and I end up preparing them in my performance management and law class which explains the sort of tough questions xD. *I apologise to those that had to answer my table topics questions..do excuse my sanity of my mind at that time when I'm preparing the questions xD.* I was also memorising my speech in the middle of tax class and I had only prepared my speech the night before @@. Everything was really rushed on that day. I had also experienced nervousness that whole night. First I was nervous for the table topics session and soon it was time. I was nervous throughout the whole table topics but I'm glad it ended well. Even after that I weren't able to calm down as I had my speech coming up soon and I was the first speaker@@. As my name was called out, I walk out to the front and gave my speech. I was so nervous that my hands were shaking when I'm holding the papers that I've prepared and even when I walked back to my sit..I was thinking what had I said in my speech? Did I miss out any points? and seriously none of those answers came to mind as my mind was totally blank and all I feel was a sense of relief. All in all everything ended well on that night and I received a good evaluation for my speech and I was happy =D.

Evaluation as a table topic master =)

My speech

Evaluation for my speech =D

~ FRIDAY ~
It was yet another normal day at class..which bores the hell out of me. I actually fell asleep during tax @@. I feel so bad to my lecturer. He is actually someone who is really nice and even if the student is sleeping he wouldn't scold! Which made me even more guilty..this is seriously the first time i actually dozed off in class. *sigh* Shall try to stay awake next time..

~ SATURDAY ~
I had to wake up at 7am to go to yet another workshop at seberang jaya. This workshop is called How To Craft A Speech by Dennis Wee. The reason I agreed to go was due to the persuading of my mentor as well as Dennis being the speaker. Indeed the workshop was interesting and I didn't regret attending. During the workshop, a video of him during the District competition and also a video of a World Champion was shown and it blew me away. The speech given by those two were absolutely amazing and once you've seen it, you could definitely know why they had won.

It was indeed a busy week and I'm somehow surprised at how I actually cope with all that. Tomorrow I'll be back to work and soon I will be having my short tests which all happens to fall on the same week @@..gotta start revising soon but I doubt I will anytime soon as I tend to procrastinate xD *someone please make me study!*