Hi everybody!
It is TWO days after VBS! And I am still a little tired. It was really exhausting. I mean, I babysit two boys very often, but when you have a whole group of kids, the amount of noise they can make is amazing. Well, it was a great experience. And I did enjoy myself. Here's just some info about the kids. I took it from my journal, too lazy to write it out.
Some kids were super whiny and spoilt, many of them were from the "Agape" childcare. One girl took something from me by force, as in she pushed and pulled for the thing (the tiny umbrella door-gift) just because she wanted pink, not blue, and I had told everyone no choosing colour. I was shocked.
The P5 boys were the best. Haha. this story really cracked me up. After taking them for craft, i was cleaning up when one of the boys squatted before me , and put his hands together the way the Chinese do-- fist against the palm of the other hand. He said oh-so-solemnly , "Teacher ah, I want to apologise for my friends." And I was like "What??!!!" He said, That boy in the orange shirt, ya, that one, I want to apologise for him." The I replied, "But he was very quiet during craft, he didn't say anything!" Then he said, " I know, but then later he very rude. he call you bad name wan! He called you...he called you..." At this, he was like nodding his head, maybe bowing, i don't know (his hands were still together. I was getting worried and impatient, and was thinking like, "WHAT!?? What did he say?" Was it something vulgar? Then I asked him calmly, " What did he say?" He then looked around as if to check if anybody was listening, and then bent forward and whispered, "He called you.. He called you... lao ah mah! (old grandma)"
I couldn't help it, I burst out laughing.
I told him it was okay. And then he kept apologising till I told him to stop.
(end of journal entry part)
There was this other P5 boy who was really contradictory and really naughty. As in he did the opposite of what you said. Somehow, he found out my nickname is "Mow" or "MowMow" (must be Ian, he was calling me that) and then kept on calling me that for the rest of camp, at lunch, at rehersal. It got really irritating, cause he got his friends to start calling me that too. He was from "Agape".
Okay, I need to wake up Dav to get ready for his chinese camp!
bye!
