all about being the teacher...

microteaching is fun.....even though it can b a nightmare sometimes (especially if dr Edwin is in the house.) The other day, me and mel get to show the video we found on the Net that showed how curious people got busted. And it was indeed a funny video. What made it funny was the language because the video is in Portuguese or something. But still we can understand what was happening. It felt really good to have your students laughing at the thing you have forked out to show them. Now i know what it feels like to be a real teacher. Just hope that my real students are like my 'students' now.....

I'm teaching here....

microteaching is a daunting experience. but the one i had with miss baiti was pretty good. together with mel, i thought that we were quite a pairing. and for that session of microteaching, we were graded by our peers. sheets of grading points were distributed and many aspects of our teaching ethics were evaluated. when you know that you are being evaluated, the pressure builded on at an impressive rate. this is because your friends' words can be much more hurtful than your teachers.if a teacher corrects you, you won't feel much because you are aware of her/his superiority.but with your friends, whom all equally standing on the same edge, their comments can somehow be a bit too truthful.but then again,with me being evaluated, i also have the priviledge to evaluate others which means i, too have the thendency of giving truthful remarks to my friends.and judging from the 4-years of experience living together,situations can indeed become really ugly.............

Correct me if I'm wrong.....

I want to change my personal view of Antony, the General in Octavius Caesar big army. In the previous post, I totally ruled out Antony as a scoundrel who was an opportunist both in his love and his position. But as the story goes on, he managed to impress me with his love for Cleopatra. Guess that he was protecting Cleopatra from Caesar when he was instructed to marry Octavia. Not that Caesar is mean, but Cleopatra once got his father down at her feet (its obviously normal for him to loath Cleopatra) Torn between his boss and his his ladylove, Antony acted like any other love-sick boy - going after Cleopatra and left the battlefield he was supposed to fight....now that's what every woman wants in a man. But Cleopatra herself was full of flaws. One that eventually led to the lovebird's death. Clearly suicide was an act of honour for the Romans and the Egyptians but honestly watching one guy kills himself minutes after another guy did the same thing will be totally gruesome. I'm saying about 5-6 people here......committing suicide simultaneously in one play production. I'll be damned if tears don't come rolling down my cheeks.