A good start to a hopefully good week=]

this week has been quite a good week until now=]
one thing for sure, I truly enjoyed coaching this week……=]

Monday was my maiden coaching session at a primary sch.
and up till that day, the only primary sch. kid that I was in contact with was my ‘cousin from hell’
so just can imagine the intensive mental preparation and psyching up I need to do……
I was absolutely terrified, and was really prepared for the worse.
furthermore, after the smooth sailing at Xin Min Sec, and Maris Stella High,
it was a jump from the cliff into hell at Zhong Hua Secondary……
and to add to my misery, ‘Study Skills’ was the topic, not just a new topic for me, but also a bloody boring topic in my opinion….

However, to my pleasant surprised…
it was one of the best lesson ever……on the same league as Xin Min Sec.
not only did the kids enjoy themselves,
I think I enjoyed it more then them…..hahahahahahaha!!!!!!
some how it was so easy relating to them,
and bringing myself down to their level to communicate with them wasn’t as difficult as I imagine….=D
the kids were absolutely 100% captured by the lesson and its was laughter all the way through, from the start to the end…..
man….the sense of achievement after that lesson was terrific,
what a morale booster it was for me, and what appropriate timing too….
it’s the kind of sch that brings back the joy of coaching when I’m already given up hope of any improvements…..
hahahaha!!!!!
THANKZ Group 5 of Maha Bodhi Primary…=]

More over, the comments on my evaluation forms were the best ever……
what really touched me was that one of the kids actually passed me a note after the lesson,
and written on a nicely folded paper was just a simple line of:
‘YOU’RE THE FUNNIEST COACH EVA!!!’
to some, they might just say, “so what??”
but for me, I was really really touched.
that smile when she handed me that note told everything…..
and it was really a sincere and honest compliment without any hidden underlining meanings….
when she ask whether I would be continuing the lessons today, and found out that someone else was to stand in for me instead,
that was true disappointment in was voice and expression…..I felt so helpless at that time(“,)
what to do, I had to attend training today…..
but THANKZ A LOT Zi Hui!!!!!!!!=D

for kids that age, I would like to believe that they’re still saying what they actually feel,
and not re-package their thoughts and feelings into a manner that is hidden behind a false façade.
even now, I can’t stop myself from smiling when I’m writing this…..
every laughter and smile and happiness expressed during that lesson was really,
was from the heart, and none involve sarcasm what so ever.
nothing was fake,
nothing was done out of pretence
and everything said and done was meant what they meant…..=]

training yesterday afternoon went really really well……
maybe it was because of the ‘best-ever’ coaching session that morning,
haha!!!!
went down in Hath absolutely loved it….
was ahead and happy with everything I was doing…
there wasn’t no drag, nor was there any struggling for balance…..
everything was A-OK between me and Hath…..=]
perfecto!!!!

alright… time for me to hit the bed….
tomorrow’s AC-ing at East Spring Primary,
at 0715hr…..
and where’s East Spring Pri………
TAMPINES!!!!!!! takes like the other end of S’por….
have to wake up at 0500hr again……sigh!!!!
oh welz, got Yina to come along too…..
hope she’ll like it…..hahaha!!!!!!
Nites Yall!!!!!