This is my first post for July 2012. I don't want to complain any more about my busy life because every time I do that, my life gets more hectic than before.
It was my first time staying in school till 8pm for project on Wednesday. Just when I thought that that was the latest time I would stay in sch for project, I stayed till 8.30pm+ on Friday. My group, wendyc chewyan, weijie ryan and alvin, stayed in the library long enough to hear the announcement that said library will be closing in half an hour's time. But at least it was productive... at the later part.
So let's go back to Wednesday again. We had T&D dry run after school and the funniest thing was that, we almost spent the entire dry run session, which was 2 hours long, playing untangled. We were unable to solve it. After the entire dry run session, we went somewhere else again to continue playing it. In the end, we could only solve till a "8" shape instead of a circle.
We managed to run through the whole presentation for 1 time and we ended the official dry run session at 7.30pm. My group proceeded to continue our IP project from there till 8pm.
So, today was the official Training Programme. We agreed to meet in school at 7.45am and as usual, people don't reach the venue at the meeting time, including me. I accompanied Wanqin to get some food from Toast Box and hence we were slightly late. After some discussion, we went to the waiting room and began to start on preparing the things that were needed for the training. From then on, everything seemed to become chaotic. We needed to arrange the tables, set up the computer, lay out the materials and the worst was that, balloons were missing. I had to look for Ms Fong again to get the balloons. There wasn't much time for us to prepare everything nicely and settle down mentally. As such, I got impatient and my "rush" mode was activated. I'm really sorry to WendyC because at that time she spoke to me, I replied her with a tone which sounded pek chek to her, which was really totally unintentional. I realised the "impatient" emotion was rather strong in me before that, so I was trying hard to curb it. As such, I purposely tried to slow down in talking and in the end it sounded angst. I guess I still have to put in more effort in controlling my tone.
I wasn't nervous until I have to present. I was just feeling impatient during the preparation due to the time constraint and problems we had to solve immediately. And probably abit tense also because Jovin called me to relax. That was when I realised I really had to relax.
It was really hard presenting in that big classroom. I felt like I was shouting and I was using my throat to speak. When I do that, my voice sounded unsteady again. My part of presentation took about 2-3 mins, but I felt the soreness in my throat immediately, as if I have been speaking for hours.
The group of students I was taking were quite... dead. But at least they did whatever they had to do. When Wendy and James were conducting the quiz session, the noise level in the classroom really turned unmanageable. The trainees were too engage in bursting balloons.
In conclusion, I think that this training programme is a very good experience. I can't exactly say that it's very fun, because to me, it didn't started off well. But overall, I still enjoyed being there. Lastly, working with Cherry's team was rather easy for this training programme and we had fun working together with them! And now that I looked back, each of us gotten our roles through draw lots, but the "mixture" was freaking even. Ryan working with Cherry to come up with the introduction and ice breaking, Chewyan and Zhiyi working together for activity 1, Wanqin and Alvin for activity 2, Weijie Jovin and I working together for the mini lecture. 1 person from my group and 1 person from Cherry's group partnered together to do on 1 thing. Cool right. We didn't intentionally split ourselves up like that.
Can really see that I didn't have enough sleep in the picture. My eye bags were so visible.
