Pollyana Cowgirl

TGIF

TGIF!

I have been looking forward to TODAY! For a variety of reasons...

(1) I will be meeting up with Kindred Spirit tomorrow! We are planning to go around the city, North Jakarta, Chinatown and do some general sightseeing!
(2) It will be fantastic to have a cosy tete-a-tete with Kindred Spirit! Especially since I am this far away from home... it will help ease the 'still-there' general feeling of isolation from the people I love back home!
(3) Kindred Spirit promised to buy me dinner! I have been craving for Japanese food for the longest time! Yummy! The weekend is always an excuse to pig out!
(4) I want to sleep! Looking forward to waking up at a more earthly hour of maybe 8am? Then having a nice breakfast... and perhaps the gym if I am up to it!
(5) I love Friday nights! To anticipate the weekend... LOVELY!

This week marks the beginning of getting to know my students better. After the initial awkward silence, my students are starting to open their mouths and showing a little bit of their true colours! Ehehehehe... Show me the colours!

I am enjoying the noise and the energy from the students. Lessons start to come alive and I can show off a bit of my funky vibe! Plus, it is rather funny to listen to my students and their nonsense... Especially from this particular class that never never fails to tickle my funny bone. It is all very unpredictable and I think I had to suppress my laughter on a few occassions when the boys decided to do their "thinking out of the box".

Oh yes! I hope to be able to go to church on Sunday too! A few colleagues attend church and I think I will join them this Sunday! Something else to look forward to! Will blog about church soon!

Shout out to: Emimi, Luke, Mal, Siyao, Pat and MUMMY dearest! I really appreciate the SMSes, the calls and the emails! An unmistakable feeling of warmth and love touches my heart whenever I am 'remembered'. I miss all of you very dearly. Stay beautiful! MUACKS!

So there we go dear readers... Another week is behind us. This week a student taught me something. There is a very quiet girl who never looks at me, much less into my eyes. She sits right in front, literally under my nose. I thought that it was rather unusual and with the multi-taking necessary (bad excuse) when teaching, I left her alone.

But, she continued to bug my consciousness for some inexplicable reason. So, I decided to just look at her. I decided to catch her glance and look straight into her eyes, and smile.

I walked into class, and smiled at her. I did it once, I did it twice, and finally, she broke into a slight grin. I did it again the next day, and I tried it again. She broke into a smile. She is still keeping real quiet in class, but today, I cracked another one of my 'jokes' and she showed her teeth and laughed. I guess being a corny hysterical nutcase helps.

Lesson: Take the time to smile. Smile at life... Cos more often than not, Blessings are in Abundance.

posted by Poot @ 5:46 PM