Yesterday was a whole day (from 7.30-4) of CIP, teaching disadvantaged kids how to play three sports- handball, frisbee, floorball. I somehow landed up with a Malay boy (as it was for this time, it was for previous CIPs... tutoring another malay boy at Carebears and guiding a malay family around the school campus. I must be quite lucky to get so many malays in a row when chinese is the main race in Singapore! But they're all really nice people) who was hyperactive and ran around even though he has asthma. I was rendered helpless (perhaps hapless..?) while he played a staring game with the fishes in the biodiversity pond, dipped his entire hand in the water to try and entice fish over, removed the filter covering the pipe of the pond's water recycling system, threw stones at the fishes, picked up rocks, dived under the staircase landings connecting the humanities block to the ISH block, swung from the movable goalposts while i tried desperately to keep them upright... the list goes on and on.The little terror was also, unsurprisingly, a natural sports enthusiast that learnt fast: his talent was such that he could do antics during frisbee, threw the sponge ball as hard as a JC student (i was watching from the shade), climbed over fences very naturally, and flicked the floorball ball high into the air after two tries and on one occasion, into the shoulder of a poor onlooking girl, who shrieked at the impact (i can't even lift the ball more than 50cm high after four years of playing floorball).
After some time, i suddenly grew to empathise with parents... having to bring up children- their looks are cute, but the messes they get themselves into are quite horrible. It's not like i'm even close to being a father yet, though, so that issue could be left till much later in my life.
On another note, today was a waste of time, sleeping from 1-5+pm... when i should be doing something about Chinese. And yet i still feel so tired now... perhaps it is time i tried to delve into homework wholeheartedly.
After some time, i suddenly grew to empathise with parents... having to bring up children- their looks are cute, but the messes they get themselves into are quite horrible. It's not like i'm even close to being a father yet, though, so that issue could be left till much later in my life.
On another note, today was a waste of time, sleeping from 1-5+pm... when i should be doing something about Chinese. And yet i still feel so tired now... perhaps it is time i tried to delve into homework wholeheartedly.
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