fly with mhe

I forgot. My brain’s not processing the way it used to be. Argghh..

It ‘s still the 2nd work day of the week, though it feels like Friday to me. I’m so tired. My hands lost its strength after a struggle from my student on my first class today. She zapped all my energy and enthusiasm to attend to the rest of my tasks. She’s just so hyperactive today that she would throw everything to the floor and my other student picking the thrown things for me. Pour her drink on her shirt and pull her pants down, I’m glad she doesn’t yet know how to unlock her belt. I also have to restrain her so she won’t litter in the hallway, which would disturb other classes. She also has a recurring seizure so I can’t leave her, I have to always be by her side whenever she’s standing just in case she has an attack, at least I can catch her. What a day. Hope your Tuesday is not as tiring as mine.

Work as usual.

I thought I was the only one experiencing Monday blues in my workplace, until I had a chat with my fellow teacher over a break. She relates to me how Monday is a dragging day for her. She would literally drag herself out of bed at times to be early at work. Then get enthusiastic to work on Wednesdays at most.

I had also read a teacher’s blog once about how she would have this Monday-nitis. Having less energy and enthusiasm to work on a Monday.

But today was different, because its a Tuesday and yet it felt like a Monday to me. I haven’t had a holiday since we still had a master’s class yesterday. Arrgghh.. I even wrote on my student’s paper the day Monday, not until she corrected me that I was made aware. Haha.. Good thing she had a good memory.

Monday is always a dragging day for me as well. Tired and looked sleepy after my work. I just want to go straight at home and sleep back, since I also literally dragged myself out of my bed in the morning. Hahayzz.. Who hasn’t had Monday blues?

I might forget that tomorrow is Wednesday already.

As I was waiting for a ride at DiviSoria to my workplace this afternoon, a mother and her child stood beside me also waiting for their ride. I curiously eyed the child. His leg muscles looked woobly and his gaze wanders off a lot. I asked his mother about the child’s condition politely. At first she was withhelding information and was quite shy a bit. After I told her that I am a teacher for children with special needs, she slowly opened up her struggles and story about her child and the things they had to go through for her son to go to school. Her son is enrolled in a public school for children with special needs and classes starts at 7:30AM and ends at 12:30PM. There are times that her son couldn’t go to school for there won’t be no one to bring him there if her mother is not available too. So the child stays at home, watches television a lot and doesn’t go out and play with their neighbours often. The child can speak and answer questions correctly. Guessing (cause I can’t prove it yet unless be subjected to assessment and tests) on the way he listened and answered my questions, he can cope up with his peers of the same level. He is 10 years old and speaks coherently.

It is these stories that rip my heart. Knowing that the child can make it in this world and be independent with much training and intervention yet at the moment was not properly addressed due to lack of resources. Felt sorry for the kid. Television is not good for him. It’ll only dull his mind more. He needs mental stimulation on print, sound stimulation to imitate and activities to make him active.

When they left, he gave me a high five and uttered, ‘goodbye teacher’. Wow.

Quite sad and upset right now. Just finished meeting with my boss concerning my student. It upsets me to think that my assessment and observation with my student is different from the specialist’s assessment when she only had an hour or two with my student. I have trust in her abilities though. I just wish she’d observe my student more than relying on her hour-long test.

I wish also my student would continue to come to school (or else I’d lose my income.. hehe..). She’s not good in academics but she’s coping in her emotional, interpersonal, and cognitive skills. She would even engage talks with me and even answers knowledge and comprehension questions correctly. She is indeed doing well, though not with the areas we expected her to. But for children like her, it is already an achievement. She was not like this when I first met her more than 2 months ago. She is a sweet girl and always has a warm smile to people she knows and are comfortable with. Hahayzz..

Been tagged by heap up on 7 facts (only 7?? hehe..) about me, on my life, etc. So here it is.

Here’s the rules:
A. List these rules on your blog.
B. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog.
C. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

You’ll have to read on for my 7 facts and see who I tagged.

1. I am fascinated with dolphins; pictures, shirt prints, figurines, stuff toys..
2. I am a  jane-of-all trade but a master-of-none.
3. I was most of the time mistaken as 26 or 28 years old over the phone when I was yet 22 and 23 at that time. Why is that?
4. My favorite color is blue since high school and most of my shirts and things are in color blue.
5. Reading is my sleeping pill.
6. I am not a very sociable person.
7. I have more patience teaching special kids than regular ones.

That’s it.. I want to tag and know more about these people as well: psychotic, lovebullet, mcguyver, just a little bit of all, twistedrumbeats, deetsie, vesper travels.