Thursday, May 21, 2009

15/5/09 Part I

Personal alarm clock rang in my mind at 0500 hours again! Force myself to get back to sleep until 0715 hours then wake up to prepare for school. Carried my camera while walking to school and snap several pictures and flowers. Good news! 張主任 will fetch me to 竹東(Zhu Dong) later. Woohoo! This morning got a student bring me breakfast some more. Am I a good teacher? haha! And you know what? It's Roti Canai or known as 蔥油餅(Onion oil biscuit) in Taiwan because this is one of their 小吃. Cool! 1030 hours, my first English class started. It's a combination of Standard 1 and 2 as Standard 1 only have 5 students in total. First class is greeting class. The feedback I got is pretty good but I was told by the teachers I have to be more fierce if my students are from Standard 6. I guess I will have my way of handling my students :)

1336 hours, they have an earthquake emergency escape route practice. Haha!

The start of the practice...Drum beats as the alarm...


Beware...Earthquake is coming...Soldier, Go! Go! Go! Protect the country!!




Hide under the table!!


Escape happily!!


It gotten more troublesome when H1N1 and earthquake attack at the same time...




Snipe him down.. Lol


Cool! Haha..


Curiousity


The Happy Teachers


Different emotions




Our kitchen's nutritionist! She takes care of my meals!






Got punished...Lol!


The cowboy behind??


Stunt show




Let's do it together!

1450 hours, 張主任treats me 臭豆腐(Stinky Tofu), it tastes spicy but not that stinky though.

Shots in Jing Ping Elementary School

Here are some other shots I took in the school. More to come...Stay tune!

Before class, their morning session of school and class cleaning that I mentioned earlier in my previous post.


曾先生- He helped me a lot when I moved into my house. Thank you very much! 謝謝曾先生!






Remember to wash your hands often. They practice this not only during this H1N1 season but since long time ago. Very good!




葉老師 and 張主任 who helped me a lot too!


This is funny. 舒淇(Shu Qi) under the number plate. What if when he/she speeds, then her picture will be taken? Haha..


One of the very good student in school.






Hardworking ain't them?


They are the 播音小天使, announcing what we have in today's lunch. Cool!

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

14/5/09

I woke up couples of time as I see the bright light leaking out from the windows in front of my bed. At that time, it was only 0530 hours! I force myself to get back to sleep until 0700 hours and wake up to school. 0725 hours, I reached the school and greeted some of the students and teachers. 0740 hours, music is on and students start to clean their classrooms and school compound. I guess, this might be a good thing to learn by our Ministry of Education, Malaysia, as we always study in a quite dusty and dirty surrounding. 0750 hours, it's our assembly. All teachers and students gathered in the quadrangle.


Morning assembly - My school, Jing Ping Elementary School, our assembly on every Tuesday and Thursday. There's live musical instruments performance as well just like my alma mater - St. Francis Institution, Malacca.


They sing national anthem and raise the national flag into the sky, waving high in the sky, showing their pride being the citizen of Taiwan, ROC.


As today is story-telling day, there's a student shared a story that he read previously during the assembly.



Next, the student representative came out and make some announcement then followed by the teacher-in-charge. Right after that at 0815 hours, all teacher gathered and we have a meeting until 0832 hours. Tomorrow I will have a class, yea.. My first class.. :)



Just after lunch, 5 students came and request to have a chat with them. They asked me a lot questions about Malaysia, our language and etc. Talking about lunch, we have white rice, pork, scrambled eggs, '滷' egg and egg soup. LoL! So 'eggy' today! Oh yea, as a Marine Science student from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), the school is requesting me to give them some info and decorate them on 4 big noticeboard. This is also because the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, started to promote marine studies and so coincidentally I am here to assist. Besides that, a teacher also requested me to teach the students here to play Sudoku as I am familiar with it.


View from my school. Cool?


The church oppposite my house.


Under construction


Beautiful flower in the greens.

The headmistress requested me to have a look on daily happenings in school and share with her my thoughts. I guess this is a good way of 2-ways communication and understanding.



Today got a bad headache, just like her. I don't know why as my rest is quite sufficient here. Went back to room to rest for 1 hour plus then wake up to reheat my dinner. After that, went back to school to online again. Haha.. Back to room at 2315 hours. Sleep!!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

First morning in Taiwan..:)

After woke up from 元首飯店, I went to get my breakfast. 陽光早餐(Sunshine Breakfast) it's what they provide us, but it tasted awful... LOL! Hotel food, can't blame la..



This building is 國立清華大學 National Tsing Hua University(NTHU).

After 孫主任 - Chief Executive, picked me up from NTHU

On the road...To the nearest city 竹東






This is just in front of my hostel, very near right? But I wonder why 100公尺 = 200 metres as 公尺and metre should be the same unit. Haha..


Hsinchu Jing Ping Elementary School...


The office - As you see, there is 3 types of language on the board. First is Mandarin, then English and lastly their aborigine's language.


The playground and also quadrangle.


One of the classroom




孫主任 with my comforter and pillow.. LOL!


My bed!


My house!


My Car!! Haha..No la..belongs to my 主任.






His outfit cool? He is one of the student representative.




While accompany one of my student back to his house, then met another 2 students here.


And the shot of the day...
The aborigine's language for duck is GURU. Kinda dumbstruck by it as I come to Taiwan to become a teacher. For those who don't know guru is teacher in Malay language and 'duck' is male prostitute. LOL!!