Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Started my first lesson as an assistant trainer in Cartooning^^

Woots.. I love cartooning!

Teaching 40 pri sch kids, so besides the teacher, there's an assistant (which is me) to handle the kids. Much time was spent on asking them to keep quiet & stop walking/running about. Kids just can't sit still for a moment and they have extremely short attention spans.
Just an hour for class is barely enough to teach anything.

It's kinda impossible to remember any names of those kids since there are just so many of them. But there's some troublemakers that one can pick out easily. This boy called Junior just couldn't sit still and kept disturbing people. He even lie down on the floor in the middle of class and told the teacher 'Ahh i'm dead!' Lol.. Some boys at the back threw things around & will do 'shuttle run' at the back of the class when they thought no one's looking.
And there were regular complaints from kids that goes like
'Cher! He steal my pencil!'
'Cher! He always disturb me'
'Cher! He kick my chair!'
'Cher! He tickle me ah, i can't draw properly'
Hmm there should be more coming up during the next lesson~

Took up this job cos of interest not because of pay.. Cos it's really not worth it in money sense.
I have to spend 4h in total to travel from Pasir Ris to this ulu-ulu-ulu school in Boon Lay and the lesson is only 1h long. So i only get paid for an hour's work.
My mum was like 'Why did u take up this 1h per week job????'
Until she saw the title: Cartooning
Then she went 'No wonder, so far away, so little pay you also want.'
Haha.. she knows that i love drawing cartoonish stuff since i was young.

I hope that i can get more assignments to fill up the other weekday mornings and afternoons. Haha my weekday nights are all filled~ That's where the major part of my income is going to come from. Just have got to sacrifice my night time tv marathon sessions.
So i'm still looking for part time weekday morning/afternoon jobs to keep my day time occupied~

Being an art teacher is so cool~ Haha.. so fun~
I'm assisting Fai who's a student in LaSalle... His first question to me was 'Are u schooling?' When i replied 'No', he asked 'U just completed O Levels?'
I was like 'Do i look that young?'
Lol.. so happy lorh~ Look like secondary school girl =p
Another fellow assistant who's a poly Design school graduate thought i was from LaSalle.
So i figured out that a little fairy must have slipped some 'exlir of youth' potion into my Milo at breakfast time.

The other teachers include students not only from LaSalle but NUS sch of design & environment too. Not all are professional art teachers... Haha.. these people cheaper to employ lor, so i figured out that the company that we are working for must be earning a lot of money.


Cloud wants to re-connect with her lost Art & Craft abilities due to many years of negligence cos of hectic sch life~

yunn. at 11:45 PM