Thursday, November 15, 2007

Speech n Prize Givin 2007

Date : 15th Nov 2007..... (Thu)
Time : 2306 hrs...

Juz came back fr sch.... Y? 2dae is our sch Speech n Prize givin day... some sort o e grandest day o e yr ba.... so everyone got dressed up.... but nt me.... coz i know i m takin care o my lion dance pupils, so sigh.... dressed nicely also no use...

My little lions have been trainin extremely gard these 2 weeks.... they were juniors... so not v familiar w e culture.... but.... they r fast learners n managed to master some basic skills in just 2 weeks.... we r impressed with their progress... hahaha.... here is a short clip o their performance...


after e short perf.... i m left to take care o the kids... this batch o kids may look better than e earlier batch, but they r not.... the earlier batch... we called them "lao long"... they r more noisy but active, passionate, sporty.... this group is still too young... but also quite noisy.... kids r kids afterall... whenever they get together... they'll become like that....


some o my laolong came down n take a last look @ us this evenin.... they had their final touch n feel o our lions b4 they left for their secondary sch.... wowowowow.... i wonder how they feel.... i feel abit sad.... anyway, we hv spent so much time... so many hours 2gether trainin..... it's hard to forget them... althou @ tat time... i feel i had some difficulty managin them but i cant imagine myself livin w/o them.... oh no...! wat will my world b??? their passion in lion dance makes me love this culure s well... they r the motivation to my presence every wed....

LAO LONG....! I m proud o u....!


later in e evenin... we shifted to e eco-garden which was abit dark.... but nvm... we went to e benches where the students usuali sat down @ while bein punished by trs.... hahahaa.... u know where la huh??? then i thot Little J some basic hiragana... n gave him the set o poker card w Hiragana on each card... so i wrote down e katakana n pronunciation for him, he shows great interest in learnin.... wata hardworkin boy....! then e surprisinli appeared Derek, also seemed interested, so we learn a few jap phrases.... n so we spent an hr o quality time 2gether....


2dae is e last day o teachin for both Zhong laoshi n Sun Laoshi.... so we bought a fruit cake n a bunch o roses for Zhong laoshi.... we'r gonna miz her... hope she'll come back for relief sometimes after she retires.... as for Sun laoshi, i wonder if we geta see her again in Singapore... nope... shld i say in my sch.... she's gg back to hubei soon.... havin spent so many months 2gether.... i;m gg2 miz her too....

@ 1st, i dare nt tok 2 her... bcoz o her hubei accent, i couldn'tcatch wat she's tryin to say.... i m quite poor... not used to the foreigner's accent.... but nw... i can communicate w her... i m hapi which shows i hv made some improvement.... she had shared w us many o her lessons n learnt quite alot fr her.... i m grateful....

i will nv 4get u, Sun Laoshi...!!! bon voyage!!!


after a long tiring day... i shld turn in early but somehow feel v hapi n excited, n cant get into sleep.... think wont turn in so early, s tmr onli starts @ 8.... GREAT!!!


SHw still havin sore eyes.... she din come 2 sch for 2 weeks le.... how? miss her... she's supposed 2 b in my group but nw she cant come, so CF made me e grp leader but i reali dunno watz 2 b dun.... but one hapi thing is.... she gave me RHYu.... she's my gd fren.... i m so hapi... i hugged her in e concourse juz nw.... then broke e gd news to her.... i told her... nvm... we'll fight hard 2gether....!

n here is my little lion dance troupe...!

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