Happy Birthday Sissstaaas!

Happy Birthdaayyy tooo yooouuuusssss~~

To my one and only dearest younger sister; Nur Farahin Aidid

and

kepada ssoohabaatt sistaah Wan Hasniza Othman yang kini berada di Langkawiii~

Semoga sntiasa berada dlm berkahNya, Insya Allah.

Skrg tade gaji, nak blnja adiah pun tak boleehhh..tp yg passtiiii cardsss are on their waaayys...

xoxo,

NFA

Of Hari Sukan Zon 1 Pitas and Kebaya~

These are some pics snapped on Pitas's Zone 1 Sports Day.

Can you see our asrama desa?

the athletes, ready to go~

SK Rosob yang merah menyala~

We were the 1st runner-up for Acara Perbarisan (I was the chaperon with another senior teacher).


Funny thing was, I wearing a Kebaya on that day.


Why?


In Pitas, apparently, at times, events could be forwarded or postponed or delayed atau dengan erti kata lain, diubah masa nya in a very short notice. And really really short notice. That fateful Thursday, when I was busy decorating the sepanduk and the same time sewing ribbons onto the school's flag (dont ask me how I did two things at one time, IPBA taught us well~), we received a calls from our teachers who were already at the Tuanrumah's padang saying that Acara Perbarisan will be on that day. On Thursday instead of Friday, the next day.



Whatt the??




I only had around 30mins to finish both of my tasks and luckily most the students involved for Perbarisan lived near the school so they could run to get their Perbarisan gears. A handful of students couldnt join because they lived 2 hours away and its ridiculous for them to go back just to get the clothes and of course they wont be able to make it on time.



Tick tock tick tock.



We reached the Tuanrumah's school at 8.45am and I was fully dressed in a purple kebaya and yes, E.Y.E.S were on teachers from SK Rosob sebab datang Hari Sukan Zon pakai baju kurung and kebaya dan berkasut tumit tinggi (drumrooooolllls).

Nasib baik menang. Usaha tangga kejayaan. Agi Idup Agi Gelaban. Hehe.

ps: Lajuu wo budak-budak zon 1 ni lari. Kalah Apiz and Guna~

Lebih Hangat Daripada Biasa

Suhu badan menunjukkan kepanasan yang luar biasa.

Lebih hangat daripada biasa.

Maka demam lah jawapannya.

uhuk. uhuk.

Of Stealing and Teaching Aids

Last week, I was on talking on the phone with a friend in Beluran (nama dirahsiakan) and she said since she cant go anywhere that weekend, she was actually taking a proactive action by producing ABMs akaTeaching aids. Teaching Aids...Something that I had passion for during practicum. Notice the use of 'Had'?

To be honest, since I started teaching in Rosob, I have only used around 50% of my 'ability' to produce ABMs. I wasnt motivated due to the lack of materials and really looking forward to go back to KL and buy everything I need to make proper ABMs. Seriously. There are alot of kedai runcits and 2 superstore here. hmm. But not thaaaat super. Uhu.

Back to the conversation I had with that dear friend, she said 'fa yang cemerlang tu wat ABM tak?'

DUSH! DUSH! DUSH!

Upon hearing that, I had this small 'tiiing' in my mind and that night I figured out ways and strategised for how to make things work in this condition im living in - where superstores arent that super.

'I have to make ABMs that will function and of course, first, I have to buy, borrow or steal things I need in order to make them. I cant even find a decent box of Buncho's crayons here. And they have very limited colours for cardboards and manilas. How?'

That was when I decided that I will just work with what I had at the moment and instead of collecting reasons for this issue, I might as well just live and produce the best I could with it.

So, in a week, I managed to 'start' English sections for three classrooms, produced two identical posters on Prepositions for my Year 2 classes, made a hanging Days-in-the-week poster for my year 1 (which my ss really loved) and cards (with different greetings on it) and pasted them all over my year 1 classroom. I did all that in a week and I know that I can actually do more in the coming weeks and I cant see myself stopping now that I have had my 'ability' and 'the touch' back. Great Teacher Faa is back! Yeay!

I didnt steal anything, anyway. Maybe not yet.


ps: Semua manila card yang digunakan untuk membuat ABM yang disebutkan diatas berwarna biru. Uhuks.

Bulih ba kalo ko~

Bulih ba kalo ko.

Thats 'ok, of course' in Sabah. Or probably just in Kota Marudu? Sabah ppl, help me.

And, i like using that phrase. I will use it every chance i get then i'll laugh. The other day, i noticed a car with super large sticker 'BULI BA KALO KO' and i laughed out loud and I didnt manage to snap a pic.

Okay, lets move on to my little monsters. I just found out that most of my year 2 students have got their own nicknames. And they hv been using the names openly and of course, loudly in the classroom sampai I pening which one was which one. Until i learned their 'nicknames'...

Here's the list;

Ramlee - Embok
Wafi - Ayang
Nizam - Along pendek
Azmawie - Botak woi
Atiqah - Abby (what the?)
Nurrahman - Along (not the pendek one)

Think you can handle it?

Njoy this lovey-dovey weekend!

Of Playground and Playboy

Okay.

Today I had a very good start with my year 2s. I brought them jalan-jalan pusing sekolah and showed them places around the school. So, I showed the canteen, the mini library, the toilet (aha!) the classes, the hostel, the hall and of course, the playground. (Bunyi macam sekolah ni lengkap je kan? lengkap juga ba, cume kayu la buatan nya tu~)

T : Okay, itu..lihat sana ya, itu apa itu yang tempat kamu bermain masa rehat tu? what do we call that place? Can somebody help me?

Ss 1: Padang besit cigu...

T : Padang apa? Besi?

Ss 1,2, 3 and the rest: Padang bessiitt..

T: Okay...tapi kita boleh panggil juga padang permainan kan?

Ss 2: Iyaa cigu. boleh juga tu ba.

T: Tapi, kalo bahasa inggeris nya bagaimana? apa kita panggil tempat tu ya? can you help me?

Ss 4: Play ciguu.

T: Ya..pandai..very ggoodd...dekat suda tu...play apaaa... plaayy...

Ss 5 : Playboy teacher!

T: Aaa. apa? Playboy?

Ss 6: Iss salah..,playground ba. yang itu ko jawab tu lelaki ba.

T: Betul tu Ss6. Betul jawapan kamu.

I ushered them back to the class right after that.


Of course, I wanted to laugh outloud at that time but I wasnt able to. It was clear that the child was an innocent girl and i wondered where the heck did she learn abt playboy. Haha.


Moments like these are of unavoidable in the classroom or outside of the classroom (depending on where you hold your classes, of course!).

Hayyy la.. Playboy ke playground?

Amacam, wanna swap classes with me?

But, seriously, I welcome anybody, esp juniors (or fellow teachers from my batch yang nak swap places with me.haha) who are interested to come and see with their eyes as well as having this hands on experience of teaching little monsters aka young students in a very very very rural place like Pitas to come over~ Atleast, the experience (i hope) will be able to teach you something extra. Something that you cant get in KL. Haha. I think this is a crazy offer, of course ppl will say no.

Saya rindu KL sudaa~