잔소리하는선생님

...or the nagging teacher.

Deep down inside, I do realize my potential as a serial nagger. Yes I nag in the morning, in the evening and at night. i especially nag when i see a sales assistant without a smile on her face, i nag about how youngster do not use formality when speaking to an elder, i nag when i see men not budging from their seat upon arrival of a heavily pregnant lady in the LRT. i basically nag.

...but don't i hate it when people nag at me. Seriously benci when i hear the same point being repeated 15 times for 15 minutes. I even vowed not to nag to my students when they make mistakes.

I nagged at my students. sort of.

Just now my Form 1 class had just returned from a library course in the Main Hall. The people from the National Library had came and taught them god knows what because I wasn't there. To start off, there are teachers who told us that the course is going to be on this morning and might take the whole day. I was supposed to be observed at my 105 class. I called my supervisor late and he was already on his way and he sounded a bit marah la because i informed him late, but i couldn't do anything pun. baru tahu myself. so yeah.

Tapi anyways. The form one students. They were back in time for English but boy am I GLAD Sir Razak a.k.a the supervisor is not here today. They were acting super lemau and super sayur today. I understand they
had a longggg day at the hall. they kept dozing off and i didn't really know what to do cuz i've had my lesson planned and i wasn't expecting them to be THAT lemau. sayur gila everyone.

and you know how sayur is infectious. oh btw for those who might be confused. sayur is the term i use for people yang lemau lembik xaktif and penat mcm xcukup vitamin.

so sayur is infectious. and i did reading today. which is boring factor number one. note to self- avoid reading at all costs in evening. if i have to do reading pun, make sure they need to get up  or work in groups. jigsaw reading or sth.

and sayur is seriously infectious. as the time goes by i could feel myself getting more like them. and my sanity was flowing out slowly. i kept sending my students to the toilet to wash their faces and even offered to make a trip to the toilet together. tapi only a few took up the offer. the rest were happy being sleepy as they were. i was a bit mati kutu la tapi i just walk around the class, ask the sleepy looking ones to answer and stuff.

as i was telling them something about going to wash their face...(kot) student perempuan ini tidur. one second i glanced at her she was awake, the next second i glanced at her she was sleeping. so without thinking i closed my book gently and said in an admiring voice

"owwww look at Ezzy's (bukan nama sebenar) sleeping face. She looks so calm and so beautiful. Guys, look at her sleeping face she's adorable. If i have a daughter i want her to look like Ezzy"


and she woke up to 29 pairs of eyes looking at her and she smiled. i smiled too, and waved good morning.

"Ezzy if i could bring a bed here i would ask you to sleep in front of the class so we could look at your beautiful sleeping face the whole time"


the girl next to her immediately straightened up and slapped her own eyes. the girl at the back slapped her own face. the boy sleeping at my right woke up because his friend shook his shoulder pretty hard. as for me, well. i'm happy ;p

and then i urged them to finish earlier so we could play a game. so a game we played. told them to move into groups and they were unmoving. marah betul. so i asked them what do they want and they say they wanted a game. told them to move again, this time gave me excuses for not moving and i went a bit stricter and said 'i want you to move to your friends so you can sit down together as a group' and lepas kena countdown baru nak lift their asses up. and without thinking again,

"do you know pokemon? you guys are like slowpokes. i'm seeing a bunch of slowpokes moving"


whoops.

and they sped up. frustrated with the speed of lightning i went again

"macam reincarnation of tortoise. are you finally in your groups? can we start now?"


WHY MY MULUT IS LIKE THATTTTT

so the game started. i should've made jigsaw reading today. oh well.

but the game went well. they participated more in the game than the lesson so yeah.

kesimpulan.

tell me if i kuat nagging?

"airasia is low class' kata budak tu. i hempuk dengan buku ni you nak?

p/s: there's this smarty pants in my form 1 class who went 'I don't watch local shows so i don't know The kampung boy'. instead of tembaking him right away i said patiently 'this is why Lat is our county's pride. his work has been recognized internationally and was already published in a lot of other languages such as French, Portuguese, English...". see. i am patient