Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 9:48 PM :D
♥dance ; dance ; dance
Work @ Ngee Ann Primary has officially ended for me. :) This is after 6 months of work, 6 months of waking up early everyday. I'm glad that the teachers there are quite nice although i'm pissed at some ppl or rather 1 person..
I started off as an LMA - teachers' assistant. So, i had to help teachers prepare ws, photocopy, babysit classes etc etc. Brainless but tiring job when all the work come one aft another. But i'm glad to have sharon, tianqi and jasmine there too. So, we basically talked and laughed alot in the very quiet HOD room. haha then i got transferred to the front desk cos they said there were too many LMAs. Reason given was i was more out going. Like total crap lahh. haha
So, I've actually learnt alot during these 6 months, esp the times when i was transferred to be at the front desk. The period of time when i have to pick up phone calls, answer parents who are unreasonable and at the same time frustrated at certain things. They would want to demand to see this and that teacher or vp or p without any appointment. The challenging part was when students and parents started to enter the general office once the school bell rang - some wanted to make phone calls, some parents wanted to find teachers, some students injured.. So, NAPS general office is pratically like a wet market. Very different from other school's office, which is always quiet. So, basically, its tough handling the ppl.. And this is added on to the amount of admin work i had to do too - faxing, typing certain stuff, daily attendance recording, opening email, opening letters.... So, sometimes when i was very busy with the admin work and parents and students started coming in, it really irritated me.. I still remember there was a phone call, when the parent started shouting and screaming so loudly that ppl in the surrounding could clearly hear the scream. And the reason for it is that she claimed that someone put down the phone when she called, which we obvoiusly did not do so. So, yup, i had to deal with all sort of ppl. But i'm sure this is a good experience for me and i'll certainly know how to deal with all sort of ppl in the future :)
So, Jasmine and i went to find sharon and tianqi after work. Had swenson for dinner, plus ice-cream. it had been a longg time since i had such a filling meal. haha. met alot of ppl in parkway. and it seemed that they are all alrdy enjoying their well-deserved holidays and yst was the start of my holidays only. Work has made me seem so sua ku.. like i didn't know there is the mango sales and i had to also ask sharon like where else got sales... haha cos she has been doing alot of shopping lately. hee.. BUT i have to contain my urge for shopping cos of the taiwan trip.. and i needed sharon and tianqi's help to prevent me from going into the mango shop.. ahah.
Plus i have jasmine who made sure that i dun eat that much so that i can eat more in taiwan.. (i told her to remind me to dun eat when i have sudden cravings out of no where) so when i felt like eating nuggets at work at 10 plus, jas was like saying, tahan abit, going to lunch time.. haha..
One of my colleague once commented that i was noisy in the hod room but like super sian at the general office. yea. cos there is the p and vp there. plus the ppl there are sort of at a different frequency from me, thou there is also one who is of almost the same age as me.Nevertheless,the general office ppl were very nice to me. Like Rachel and Pat, who gave me things when i was abt to leave and they thanked me for my help. haha. But i'm being paid to do so... lol
I am so glad that Tianqi is back safe and sound.Her courage to go japan
alone is sth that i admire. She has indeed stepped out of her own comfort zone. :)
I want to upload photos that we took at work and all..but blogger seems to have a technical prob at the uploading of pic part..=.=
