The door!!

This happened not too long ago while I was in the class with my 4 year old students.. One morning after our ritual of good morning greetings to each other, morning prayer, singing nursery rhymes and attendance, I decided to sit the children down to have a talk.. about one of the most annoying and important things to me. Its none other than ... the new-found hobby of playing with the classroom door. As one was trying to open, the other would be trying to close and not to mention the crying and screaming as they get hit in the face by the door or the scare by the loud banging of the door. You can imagine the frustrations I had caused by the door.

So... as I sat them all down.. I told them that I was very upset the past few days because I have to yell all day long to keep them away from the door. I told them I had sore throat because of all the yelling and I also get the headaches from the door banging. One sweet thing was, my students are afraid if I'm sick coz that means I'm not going to teach them. Me not being in the school means they are not coming too. So.. I kinda made my point about the effect of door banging they are creating to ME and so I need to make another point of the danger of the door-banging to THEM..

After explaning that.. I continued by telling them how dangerous it can be.. I told them 'I know you're trying to be helpful and close the door for me but you might not see your friend coming in and accidentally hit them.. and you know, if you are not careful.. it might caught your hand and that will be very painful' .. at this point.. I can see that they were all imagining what it would be like and I know because each of them made their little 'thinking' face.. and so I add a little drama to it.. I said 'Ga mau kan kalo tangannya kejepit.. ntar kalo kejepit tangannya ilang trus nanti ga bisa play lagi.. ga bisa writing and colouring lagi loh..'

After about 3 seconds.. my students who are the number one door-banger in the class replied.. 'Miss, kalo tanganku ilang... miss mau bantuin cari ga?'

I cracked up laughing... for the whole day!!

An Update..

Gosh.. its been a loooong time since I paid any attention to my blog.. Sorry sorry sorryy... So, in an attempt to make everything less painful, here's what's been happening to my dear little life..

Starting from the new year.. I was at Bali for the new year.. me and my whole family flew off to Bali on the 31st, and I met up with some friends in the afternoon and spent new year with them and came back at around 3ish to the hotel (after getting calls from my dad telling me that female walking in alone to a hotel at 3am was unsightly). We didn't get the hotel we wanted because it was fully booked, so we stayed in the same hotel we stayed in last October holiday. Since it was famous for its spa, we went ahead and have ourselves pampered in the spa retreat. It was heaven!!

After the Bali trip, I was busy organizing my cousin's wedding along with my other cousins. This wedding was a bit of a surprise for our family. The story was, the couple was together for a few years before they broke up. They stayed friends for 3 years and then things happened and they decided to get married (and no, there's no bun in the oven). So they went from single straight to engaged. haha. Later on, I found out that it happens a lot lately, apparently its the trend now. The wedding was a blast, everything ended up better than we expected. We had compliments from guests saying that the reception was well organized and the guests felt very welcome. F.y.i, me and the other 7 cousins were the ushers that night. Will post up pictures once we got it from the photographers.

And after the wedding, I was elected the Event Co-ordinator for my school's Chinese New Year Celebration. So I get myself busy assigning team members and their duty as well as making sure they did their job.. and hopefully everything goes well too this time..

As for now, staying home resting coz I was sick and apparently I was too tired from everything that has been going on. Can't stay sick for too long though, coz there's a lot of things waiting to be done.