so.

i miss UK weather.
the only thing that bothers me is the weather,
and the monsoon is long overdue ):
please please please please rain soon,
because I don't know if i can stand the heat any longer!

yes, malaysia can be hotter and more humid
but there's airconditioning everywhere and
i don't have to walk all over the place, so
i dont notice the heat at all!
but here, oh my life.

anyway i was at school today to observe and play
with the 3yos again, which was lovely (:

so i'll be teaching chemistry and of all subjects,
disgusting annoying physics.
arrrrrrgh!
the only subject i hate more than maths is physics!

and just looking through the syllabus to see what I have to teach
is bringing back memories of form5 lab classes
where pn. ang bang lee would try to shout her way
across all these cocky students who thought they
knew everything and thus spent the whole class time
talking and doing other homework.
(i caught up with my chickflick reading!)

but yeah another problem i've realised is..

i learnt all this in BM/Chinese
and now I have to teach in stupid English!
honestly, English is great but they have
such a wide vocab and there are so many different
confusing terms for everything ):

and because I'm teaching kids 9-15,
there's a wide range of things for me to relearn
and 15yo kids here learn physics that is taught in
AS Level in the UK, which makes things a lot harder
because I didn't take Physics for A Levels!
):

i just want to tell these kids that honestly,
knowing such things like electron valency and
u= v+at (is that right?!) is really not applicable
after they graduate and i forgot everything anyway!

but oh well, i think another science teacher is coming in soon
so maybe that'll be some help and i'll
just go on and take art lessons with the younger ones (:

yesterday i had the most interesting day.
i spent the whole day with these girls in a home
called the Princess Home, which is run by a church
who rescues girls that were forced into prostitution.
and these rescued girls run a business making beaded
jewellery to earn enough money for their future,
which is really amazing!

apparently there are loads and loads of things like that
in Nepal and it's really nice to see that
there are so many organisations doing so much here!

so i might be helping out there once a week.

and tomorrow i get to go to the pediatric ward
to hand out balloons to sick children!

pray for rain!