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Thursday, September 21, 2006

September, Week 3
Tuesday, 09/18
First field trip for the new school year to Bear Branch Park...
It is actually a nature walk thru the Greenbelt trails for abt 20 mins to the park..
Almost half of the children parents tag along with us!! See, parents are sooo involve!! Very good.. It is nearly fall, and so there are many coloured leaves on the ground n the main objective of the trip was for the children to collect as many different types of shape and colour leaves.. Den they will do sorting, leaf rubbing n something arty wen they get back to class.. Each child carried their own brown bag n everyone had fun picking leaves from the ground! Haha.. It was a little chilly but overall a very nice day for picnic too.. This walk actually reminds me alot of my babies in Iyad.. =( Miss Liani n myself love to take the children for a walk around our neighbourhood. N trust me, the children learned alot more than just sitting in class.. =)
Anyway, the day turned out pretty well n the parents enjoyed themselves. It was a good bonding between the parent and child.



Off we go...


A pretty long walk thru the trails..

Wednesday, 09/20

6pm - 7pm: Ice Cream Social

Organized by the parent committee of Pines Montessori to recruit new parents to volunteer around the school. To me, it was a very good idea because most of this parents really like to get involved with the school activities and they like to chitty chatty with all the other parents. haha.. Many families turned up for the event and i enjoyed myself so much cause there's ICE CREAM... Yipeeee! I got a good dosage of chocolate that evening.. U can choose as many toppings as you want.. For myself i had choc ice cream with Hershey's choc syrup, choc rice, cherries dipped in choc n top it off with whipped cream... Yummylicious!! I just sat under the tree alone n couldn't care less abt the ppl around me. Let me deal with my chocs first... =) (just to let u know, this is helping me to gain weight!! Happy kan Ibu?)

One more good news!! I got a pay raise after a week of working... I was just told just now n i'm super happy now! The williamsons love what i do for the children n the loves me... So from 7 bucks an hour, i'm getting 10 now.. That's like 15 Sg bucks an hour!! Now why would i want to go back home n work??? haha.. Kidding la!!

Thursday, 09/21

Event: International World Peace Day

It starts off with a parade around the school compound.. Each child is required to hold a pin wheel with their peace msgs written on it.. For the younger ones, it's more like scribble scrabble on their pin wheels.. haha! I guess tat's peace to dem.. =)

Den we gathered at our backyard n we listen to a few messages from the board people den a poem was read out by 2 elementary students. Very de touching... Around the schools, there are many signs with different languages of "peace". I was searching for one in malay n i couldn't find it.. Sad la! Den Aunty G suggested to the teacher in-charge to create one for us... Guess what!! Ermmm, they asked me to translate it n sooo u guess wat la... some of u will know this! I translated it wrongly.. =( paiseh la.. I said "damai". Well i know my malay sucks but at that point of time, it sounded right to me.. Hehe! Nasib ku baik... Only Aunty G n myself are malays cause much later in the day wen everything is over, i figured out the right word.. "Aman" kan? hahahaha... Shhhhhh! Just gotta act clever at times... =)

The elementary students with their peace sign...

Peace Poem...



Friday, 09/22 (which would be tommorrow!!)
Off to another field trip with the elementary n kindergarterners to "Rock & Gem Exhibition" at Humble Civic Centre... I'm pretty excited cause this is a big event in houston n there will be thousands of children from all over Texas... Cool Kan!! I wonder if i would get to see diamonds there.. Hmmmm! Will let u guys know soon ya...
Adios!!

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