hmm ok i shall now sit down, and type a proper blog entry. (:
well, ok my day started at 9am.
went to a friend's condo to play tennis. played till like 10.30, then hurried home to change, and then rushed down to causeway point. msged G to tell her i'd be late. and the reply i received was that she'd be EVEN LATER. never trust girls to be on time. lol. met X at causeway point first nonetheless, drank iced peach tea at the foodcourt, then went to meet up with the late girl. went to cold storage to buy sweets, and then headed to Si Ling Pri Sch.
had lunch at the canteen, which was quite decent.(empty plate=decent food for me)
ok and then it was "fun" time.
well basically we're(me, g, x and some other guy called Mr. Lu) supposed to teach pri 2/3 kids basic gym stuff.
location is in some double decker bus which has been transformed into a miniature gym. think padded flooring, exercise mats, parallel bars, those rings from which u hang from, etc. i think its really cool. tho i cant play in it cos its only meant for lil kids.
oh and its called, "BOBBIE THE GYMBUS"
haha ok as i was saying, we had a couple of classes coming in after lunchtime, and today's programme consisted of aerial straddling + parallel bars.
aerial straddling : ok i know this sounds obscene, but i cant come up with any other names to properly describe it. so yeah. basically the kids hang on the monkey bar, and then lift their whole legs up such that their upper torso is almost perpendicular to their outstretched legs. think star jumps. of course, to ask for 90 deg from kids is a lil too far fetched, so just 140 deg or so was enough. and they've gotta maintain that position for 5 counts, before coming down.
parallel bars : dont worry those kids arent doing l337 swings to and fro or somersaulting up, and then grabbing the bars on the way down to prepare for another swing. all they are doing, is just place their palms on the bars, and push themselves up such that their feet do not touch the ground, and maintain that position for 10 or 20 counts(depending on how (X)ialan X was. lol kidding.) afterall the more they do, the more they train up. nothing to lose anyway.
haha its been quite long since i've been in a pri sch. i look at their innocent faces filled with pure, undiluted joy and i think to myself, "how long has it been since i've felt just like them?" i cant even remember if i had as much fun as them when i was as young as them. when i see them smiling, laughing, poking fun at one another, i cant help but feel warm deep down inside. its this almost symbiotic relationship that establishes itself such that when the children are happy, im happy too. i might not know their names, even tho they know mine. haha thanks to X whose tongue slipped several times. example? "hey fyshh take care of this kid. -pause- oh sorry i meant Mr Teh." and being the creative and imaginative beings u people call KIDS, they now know me by "sa-teh(satay), tehtarik, and even tehteh(which they used in the context of a pseudo swear word. "YOU STUPID TEHTEH"." well of course i didnt scold them, i was busy laughing with em.
Really amazing how they can draw strength from the littlest things. I see them hanging on the parallel bars, with their faces cringed up in complete agony and complete with grinding teeth. then slowly, they open their eyes and looked at me. i smiled at them, and urged them with silent words to hang on and peservere. and guess what? they'd be able to withstand the "pain" for 5 more seconds or so. Intriguing. (:
which brings me to the point that I've just about forgotten how its like to be a kid.
haha anyone who knows me, would probably presume that i'd be the type who goes around with a gun blowing every single kids' head off. well u're all wrong. im by nature a kid-lover, always has been, always will be.
even if the kid is really rowdy and naughty, i believe as long as u respect him, he'll return the respect too. it works both ways. and by respecting i do not mean being nice to him, or the other extreme. what i mean would be more towards the "firm but flexible" side. utmost satisfaction comes from "taming" one of those really rowdy kinda kids.
haha ok wtf i am talking about how to bring up kids.
really wonderful experience working with kids.
sometimes i feel i should just chuck the deep, complicated self within me and just adopt the kiddy mentality.
lol. but who am i kidding?
Yes, Pun Intended. (:
well, ok my day started at 9am.
went to a friend's condo to play tennis. played till like 10.30, then hurried home to change, and then rushed down to causeway point. msged G to tell her i'd be late. and the reply i received was that she'd be EVEN LATER. never trust girls to be on time. lol. met X at causeway point first nonetheless, drank iced peach tea at the foodcourt, then went to meet up with the late girl. went to cold storage to buy sweets, and then headed to Si Ling Pri Sch.
had lunch at the canteen, which was quite decent.(empty plate=decent food for me)
ok and then it was "fun" time.
well basically we're(me, g, x and some other guy called Mr. Lu) supposed to teach pri 2/3 kids basic gym stuff.
location is in some double decker bus which has been transformed into a miniature gym. think padded flooring, exercise mats, parallel bars, those rings from which u hang from, etc. i think its really cool. tho i cant play in it cos its only meant for lil kids.
oh and its called, "BOBBIE THE GYMBUS"
haha ok as i was saying, we had a couple of classes coming in after lunchtime, and today's programme consisted of aerial straddling + parallel bars.
aerial straddling : ok i know this sounds obscene, but i cant come up with any other names to properly describe it. so yeah. basically the kids hang on the monkey bar, and then lift their whole legs up such that their upper torso is almost perpendicular to their outstretched legs. think star jumps. of course, to ask for 90 deg from kids is a lil too far fetched, so just 140 deg or so was enough. and they've gotta maintain that position for 5 counts, before coming down.
parallel bars : dont worry those kids arent doing l337 swings to and fro or somersaulting up, and then grabbing the bars on the way down to prepare for another swing. all they are doing, is just place their palms on the bars, and push themselves up such that their feet do not touch the ground, and maintain that position for 10 or 20 counts(depending on how (X)ialan X was. lol kidding.) afterall the more they do, the more they train up. nothing to lose anyway.
haha its been quite long since i've been in a pri sch. i look at their innocent faces filled with pure, undiluted joy and i think to myself, "how long has it been since i've felt just like them?" i cant even remember if i had as much fun as them when i was as young as them. when i see them smiling, laughing, poking fun at one another, i cant help but feel warm deep down inside. its this almost symbiotic relationship that establishes itself such that when the children are happy, im happy too. i might not know their names, even tho they know mine. haha thanks to X whose tongue slipped several times. example? "hey fyshh take care of this kid. -pause- oh sorry i meant Mr Teh." and being the creative and imaginative beings u people call KIDS, they now know me by "sa-teh(satay), tehtarik, and even tehteh(which they used in the context of a pseudo swear word. "YOU STUPID TEHTEH"." well of course i didnt scold them, i was busy laughing with em.
Really amazing how they can draw strength from the littlest things. I see them hanging on the parallel bars, with their faces cringed up in complete agony and complete with grinding teeth. then slowly, they open their eyes and looked at me. i smiled at them, and urged them with silent words to hang on and peservere. and guess what? they'd be able to withstand the "pain" for 5 more seconds or so. Intriguing. (:
which brings me to the point that I've just about forgotten how its like to be a kid.
haha anyone who knows me, would probably presume that i'd be the type who goes around with a gun blowing every single kids' head off. well u're all wrong. im by nature a kid-lover, always has been, always will be.
even if the kid is really rowdy and naughty, i believe as long as u respect him, he'll return the respect too. it works both ways. and by respecting i do not mean being nice to him, or the other extreme. what i mean would be more towards the "firm but flexible" side. utmost satisfaction comes from "taming" one of those really rowdy kinda kids.
haha ok wtf i am talking about how to bring up kids.
really wonderful experience working with kids.
sometimes i feel i should just chuck the deep, complicated self within me and just adopt the kiddy mentality.
lol. but who am i kidding?
Yes, Pun Intended. (:
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