Teacher, teaching teach, taught, tutor, tuition.... intuition!

in my first week in St gabriels sec sch, amidst my struggle to adapt to the mischievous boys in school, one of my fellow PE teachers asked me if i would consider teaching. my immediate answer was no, considering the unempowering babysitting kind of job scope i had. to be honest, 2 weeks here is not enough to really have a long lasting impact to the boys' lives. or so it seemed... the PE teacher who spoke to me said that he din consider teaching his career before he came in too. it was after doing relief that got him in. he told me to not be so sure.. there is nothing more true than that.
if 2 weeks seems a little too short to have an impact, think again. i could already remember easily 20 to 30 names in this short span of time and counting. its my 6th day at work. and the names dont come by hard memorising. it comes by simply talking cok to them... playing basketball with them, challenging them to shooting and then make them run wound the court if they lose... etc.. (by the way i was fortunate to have not lost in the shootout competition since i could not run at all) almost like pian xiao hai zi. hahah.
my schedule is basically Mr Foo's schedule. the PE HOD of the school. so fortunate or unfortunately i got a slightly more relaxed sched than most teachers, but i would more often than not be last min inserted to do relief for any teachers who werent there because of various reasons... MC being one of them. cut the long story short i end up with about 7 to 8 periods a day on average. which is average teachers workload i guess. out of which the bulk is PE periods. i do have one interesting class on tuesday afternoons tho. and that is this thing called Values education (VE for short) this lesson is something like our CME in those days i guess. but it doesnt teach you to be a Hao Gong Min anymore like those help old grandma cross the road kind. hahaha. cant help but laugh. instead it teaches the kids various more into date topics like Sexuality. mind u, dun giggle as of now. SEXUALITY doesnt equate to SEX. and NO i do not teach them how to put on condoms etc. and i do not use a pointer to point to that dangling object and explain the various parts of it hahahahaha. instead i teach them about gender issues. and in my opinion the biggest lesson that i can teach them is for them to learn how to treat a lady properly..
todays class was so so so so so so so so empowering. i cant imagine this was the same class last week that had me struggling so so so so hard to get their attention. to be honest i am somewhat amazed myself that i could capture that level of attention from these boys. and its so great that i was allocated VE since its not a main main examinable subject maths where i cant talk cok to them. at least for today i din have a syllabus. so since i had 1 simply message to bring across... incredible! i spoke from class start to class end. a good 1hr 10 mins. so glad i have that gift of being able to talk cok.
anyway. if you think 2 weeks couldnt make a diff. really. think again. i had sec 4 students who came to talk to me coz i took their class for service learning last yr as a part of our community service project in SMU. wow. and they stil rem me even after a total change of image hahahah. and the list goes on.. from msn to friendster.. basically its about speaking in these kid's lingo. isnt it? i never had to remember names because i just gave them nicknames.. Judo boy, etc.
i'm on so much adrenaline i'm blogging here instead of going home. ha.