Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Open house was like super much better than JIPA, perhaps is because all the teachers there are so nice (at least those I worked with today)
There was the art teacher, Ms Hazel Ho and Mr Gerald, all nice people...
The art teacher (I think her picture is in AEP room), she was like so nice to provide us with the things that we needed like the strings, blu tac, cardboard whenever we ask her for it, and she makes sure that we have the things in proper NICELY.
Ms Hazel Ho was also nice cos she was like coming to check on us as and when to make sure things are going well, and helped out at the initial part at the reception.
Finally, there was Mr Gerald, quite a friendly guy who is like always helping us at the start and even bought us drinks! He was like talking in a really friendly tone with the J1 people and us too.
Now to the real open house itself...
I did not feel that it is a screwed up event, just some minor hiccups here and there, much better than... yups.
But one thing was that reception was SUPER boring...
It was like standing there to give out the files (a.k.a goody bags) and also the post card for the lucky draw. Apparently many CCAs took a lot and in the lucky draw won alot. Duh...
[People there: Clarence, Tammy, Kristabel, Me!]
And yups, after a long while, about 1pm, Clarence and I realised that there were not enough tour guides and we rushed there to substitute... (lucky I took the picture of the route from Yida using my camera phone or else I dunno where to go, my 'just in case' worked!)
and that was when the better part of the day came by...
The first group was a mother and two girls (maybe her daughters or niece), who looked totally different from one another...
One girl was super quiet and the other was like asking me loads of questions (I think she is the one that looks better too, but errrr.... not my type...)
It was totally fun bringing them to all the extra places not in the route cos I wanted to show them more nice things about nanyang, and the feedback i got was that the school facilities are wonderful.
It was totally fun promoting council and SDP too... hahaz!
Then this tour took like 1.5 hours, super long, smiled until mouth cramped...
After which, just when I went back to the booth like for 30seconds, one mother and her daughter (confirm is her daughter, look so alike, except for the wrinkles) came to ask for tour and I brought them around...
And this time I really know what to tell them cos I am like familiar with my route...
Then I brought them around and talked about the differrence between the secondary school life and the JC life, got a couple of laughs here and there and smiles here and there, and none of the questions were too hard to answer (luckily...)
And that only took 1 hr cos we missed some places due to the rain...
And that marked the end of my tour duty... (I wished I had more T.T)
Anyways, after which, there was a debrief and yups, nothing special to report...
And now I just feel that I am gonna need some strategies to ensure that things go well, especially when studies are coming back...
Tools: 1) deadlines, 2) Getting help, 3) Striking a balance!
Yay! Open house rocks! =)
(R^3)CMI wrote some crap again... <3 9:12 PM
