black flowers bloom
yday i taught my first sunday school lesson! its kinda hard to explain... sorta a cross between a disaster and a success. doesn't make sense does it... well neither does love-hate relationship but we sorta understand that.
anyway this week we did the spirit of peace so they were taught the story of Jesus calming the storm in the main devotions. during the class time they were supposed to make this standee thingie with jesus on an ice cream stick walking on water (it looks better than it sounds ok. haha). i always thought the arts and crafts we made during church were kinda well, no-use. haha. how else to put it without sounding blaphemous. wellll...in my time, there was always damn little time and everyone was fighting for supplies. there. but i guess they're only P2 so we can't exactly delve into long dissections and subsequent droning about the details and issues.
goodness digressing again. anyway this week the class had quite a number of absentees which made it more managable. but the usual suspects who were present were in an incredibly ticklish mood this week. so the lesson consisted of them cracking kid jokes and laughing and laughing over it. like oh jesus drowning and jesus taking a submarine hee hee hee what about the sharks hahahaha. that kinda thing. of course being the good sunday school trainee, i was horrified. haha so i had to be stern, and repeated the whole main devotions of the story for them, which they proudly proclaimed they hadn't listened to before. sigh. secretly i thought they were sooo cute! trust the little terrors to come up with all the nonsense.
omg i'm starting to sound matronly.. horrors.
anyway i concluded it was quite a success cos we finished the art work and i'll like to think they got the lesson right the second time i went thru it!
at the end of the lesson i realised i had scrawled the memory verse in permanent marker across the entire blackboard. and i had to clean it off.
and when i got home that night, i realised i had glue stains with bits of dust and flecks of paper stuck to my shin from trying to control the class! and i was walking around like that all day! but i found it damn funny... haha thats how frazzled i must've looked. but i loved it lots!
k enough bedtime stories for today i'm sleepy.. byeeeeee
ma lady janna that lousy twit is in jb shopping her legs off. i miss you obasan bothering me... come home soon!
mission for this week: get driving lessons!
anyway work is making me so superly stressed out its not even funneeeh anymore. i never knew retail had such great responsibility. i mean what happened to "with great power comes great responsibility"?? (hurrhurr). i'm just a lowly shop assistant earning my shopping keep of 5 lousy ones an hour.. spare me! i dunno how long i'm gonna survive.
ok anyway i refuse to talk about work becos as of now i still have 2 precious mins left of my weekend and its gonna remain a weekend.
don't get me wrong i love the job but sometimes it gets damn overwhelming. or am i too blur?
ok i think i just used up my weekend.
today i taught my first real lesson at sunday school. haha it was better than the first trial lesson i had, but not THAT great la huh. ok to begin with only one of the two teachers came in today. usually he adds in comments to guide my teaching, but today he spent the lesson sorting out the the colour pencils in the supplies box. yes. hmmm but to the fair, he did shout at them when they got too rowdy.. and i think he was prep me for next week, when i'll be totally without allies cos they're all gonna be away... haha. so half the lesson was spent bribing them with a game of hangman if they finished the assignment, teaching them to flip their bibles, telling them to turn to the right pages, fill in the proper blanks etc. so in between helping the slower kids, telling the loud ones to shaddup (i mean quieten down)... we managed to finish the lesson! =) happy. amazingly the kids really really love hangman. i can't remember liking it so much as a child. haha they prob like it cos of the morbid stickman but hey, i wouldn't know these kids...
its sorta a love-hate relationship with them... one moment i'm torn between wanting to scream and grab the whole screaming/shouting/climbing/running/fidgeting/whining bunch and chuck them on a plane to timbuktu, then the next moment someone says or does something damn cuuutte and you just wanna hug them. haha sorta like those "its all worthwhile" cheesified ads.
oh and today! i bumped into my long lost mg buddayy michlee at toa payoh of all things. went for dinner with my mumsy and renno at crystal jade and after that we were hanging around being part of the heartland population when she suddenly went "lisa chan!".
haha it was nice seeing her after like soo long... chatted for a while about stuffs, whatever we could in that short time. haha felt pretty bad tho, cos i didn't get back to her earlier about catching up ... and when we met i was in a superly grouchy mood cos i had cramps and was damn tired.. i woke up at 7 am! anyhow we've promised to go out soon!
ciao!