If not for some unforeseen crisis (I just can’t find any other word to describe), the recent Teachers’ Day would have been an eventful and memorable one.

On the last day of last month, SNGS celebrated Teachers’ Day in a rather fun way. We the teachers played sports games with the students. The catch? We can break all sorts of rules and the students could only feel helpless and do nothing. Haha, no wonder we won all 4 games (basketball, soccer, table-tennis and captain’s ball). I played the captain’s ball with the Sec 4s, and boy it was tiring! But it was fun and exciting.

Teaching in a girls’ school, it’s not unusual to receive lots of gifts from the girls, even though I’m just a new teacher there. There were a lot of hand made stuff (e.g. cookies, cards, etc) and some other presents like pencil case, cushion and so on. I’m not a person that feel extremely happy upon receiving gifts, but I was quite touched by some students who wrote nice little messages and sticked them to the gifts. One particular student made me felt rather encouraged after reading her card. I would be happy enough to receive such inexpensive cards with priceless words written in it.

I guess these nice gestures from my students will provide me with enough motivation to continue living my life meaningfully and to do my best to help them academically as well as in other areas that need improvement.