Back from Taiwan! Came back with like a bag full of food & clothes and left part of my heart there. I loveeeeee Taiwan! Really want to go there & study for a semester so I can enjoy more time there but sadly, it's not to be because their semester timing is different from ours & we have attachment in July which clashes with their semester :(
Maybe I will just go there & teach for a year or two after finishing my bond. Or marry a Taiwanese & stay there. Hahahaha.
I also came back to Singapore to find a surprise awaiting me, a new gigantic wardrobe! My mom was so sick of my clothes piling up everywhere that she bought a new huge wardrobe but I think, somehow, there still doesn't seem to be enough space. Still in the midst of packing my wardrobe. Why do I have so many clothes! More importantly, why can't some of them be nicer so I can wear them all. Argh.
The packing is made more difficult, because initially, it was supposed to go into the empty space next to my old wardrobe but my dad while taking care to measure the width, forgot about the height & as there was a ledge on the top of the wall space, my parents had to go with Plan B. This Plan B involves taking down my drawers & shelves to make space for the new wardrobe. & while I was out to work at Kumon, my parents & my brother packed all my stuff into boxes.
So now I have various boxes to unpack + my luggage of new clothes brought from TW & BKK. So sian, don't like unpacking stuff!
Most importantly, I am really upset because my name necklace which Renee, May, Sharon, Huishan, Yumin & Ferlin gave me is lost! It disappeared when my parents & brother were taking down my shelves & stuff & packing them into boxes. Now I have like cleaned up 3 boxes worth of stuff & I still can't find it. I have a feeling I won't find it again in the near future. Ultimate sadness, I love the necklace. Hopefully, the site opens a name necklace spree again & I can order 1 again for myself.
Okays anyway, that won't happen very soon because I am so broke now. Spent a bomb in TW & then loaned my brother $500 to buy his laptop. After which I bought my new netbook & a hard disk, which can only be partially claimed from my employer. Add that to the fact that my pay will be stopped like real soon, with probably only 1 or 2 more months' pay to go?
Seems like I have to go back to taking up private tuition although I hate it so. Shall pray for a nice kid & one who lives nearby who only requires once a week tuition. If you know of any such assignments, please send them my way! Maybe only after school attachment though.
I'm so not looking forward to school attachment btw, 5 long weeks! Doesn't help that my school has super long hours from like 8am to 3.10pm. Like what?!! Have to go for a 3 full day induction program too, why why why? :( Can foresee boring workshops & awkward staff meetings ahead. Ohkays, shall try to look on the bright side. I loved the kids esp the classes I was attached to last time I was there. Hopefully, I will enjoy it as much this time round because 5 weeks is not a very short time. I hope I don't get much relief teaching duties too because, frankly? I am still very much afraid of teaching. Oh no.
Why can't teaching be like it is at Kumon? Lol. Btw, found a new favourite kid at Eng counter: Juneo! Which is good because I'm always sad whenever I can't take High Lvl on Tuesday & thus can't teach & talk to my favourite High Lvl Math students. All because now that there are now so many guys working at Kumon, there's a lack of Eng counter teachers so I'm always posted there now. Juneo makes me happier working at Eng counter on Tuesdays. He is so cute lah! I asked him whether he has any siblings & he told me: "Yes, I have a lot a lot of ketchup at home!" HAHAHAHAHAH. Ohkayyyyyyy, I see.
A very long post to make up for not blogging for a long time! :D
