Thursday, January 05, 2006
Woes
Now's my break time... and I juz can't resist writing about this p1 student of mine.He's a bit... how should I put it... hmm.. slow. It's the third day of school now and he's still blur.Every Malay lesson, all the Malay kids from his class will be lining outside the class religiously and march to the Malay class. Which is, by the way, jus next door. And every single time, he will still be found rooted to his seat in his class. So every Mother Tongue lesson, I will have the Chinese teacher bringing this stray kiddo to me.I told the senior Malay teacher abt this kid. She suggested that I interview him. Jus ask simple question. Ok fair enough.Here's how the interview went:-Me: So, Kiddo (name changed to protect his identity. duh!), where do you live?Kiddo: Mmm.. in a block.Me: Okay.. but where?Kiddo: There. (points sumwhr)Me: Is it C (an estate in S'pore)?Kiddo: Ya.(all the while not maintainin eye contact)Me: So what do you do at home?Kiddo: Mmmm... (thinking..)Me: At home, what do you always do? (notice tt it's still de same qn)Kiddo: Mmmm... (still thinkin...)... ... (after 10 sec of workin his neurons)Make roti prata! (complete with his gleaming smile)Me: (dumbfounded. could not carry on with the interview. told Kiddo to sit.)What am I to do....?
Pooped @ 3:19 PM
