A West Timor Dedication

Friday, March 24, 2006

Wei-Xiang

14th Day of Kupang Life

Today was the last day of school for me in SMA 1. Last day of interaction. I was assigned to 10C again, the one and only class that I went in twice. The students were surprised and happy to see me again.

I saved the introduction and went straight to questions and answers session. Though we met the second time, they still had questions for me. Luckily, if not I did not know how to conduct the class. Once again, I played with them the word game. Everyone was enthusiastic. Since they were my last class for the last day, I bought a lot of goodies for them (amounted to 41,000 RP). I could see the corners of their mouths move up (SMILE).
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A guy, Deddy, from the class performed for us. He sang a song, “Because of you”. He really sang beautifully. I was too obsessed in his performance. The class was dragged till 11am which was supposedly to end at 10.30am. By the way, something to share - All classes end their day at 11am every Friday (Muslims have to go for their prayers).

After the class, I proceeded back to the “teachers’ room” as Miss Sandy had informed me earlier on that she needed to gather feedback from me. By the way, it was an informal feedback session. Besides chatting with her, there was this English teacher who posted a really tough question to me. She showed me the recent English examination paper taken by the third grade students. The question was what do you mean by the commissioner of the work”? I was stunned. The options were (a) invisible (b) scattered (c) rebuke and (d) retire. Oh man, obviously all the answers seemed weird to me. Her answer was “retire” and she asked for my answer. I made a wild guess and just chose “scattered” and guess what? She told me a lot of teachers chose “scattered”. I was huh…???

After about 30 minutes of conversation with Miss Sandy and the teacher, they presented me a gift. I was so touched and kept thanking them. Miss sandy had a request from me. She told me that the English teachers have been looking forward to visit Singapore to interact and exchange pointers with the Singapore’s teachers. However, she has spoken to Pak Guido about it and yet to hear from him. Hence, she asked me if I’m able to help. Hope I will be able. Wait for my news…

After lunch, Pak Budi and Auntie Peggy brought us to two souvenir shops to buy and bring something that we can bring back to Singapore. However, I never get anything (Nothing really interesting). After some shopping, we went to the stadium for a friendly soccer game with the local girls’ team. When we reached the stadium, the girls were already there practicing. All of us were simply SCARED by their built size. Haha…

Here we began the game, in less than five minutes, I was attacked by a ball aiming at my face, and the only reaction I thought of was blocked. How foolish could I be? I blocked it with my hands. Haha…FOUL. Oh man, so paiseh!!! That’s not all. My left shoe was loose that it flew off when I gave a kicked to the ball. Haha…Whistle blown.

I was playing the role as a defender. I was all the while defending my opponent from getting hold of the ball. I was and really giving all out. At that moment, I lost my gravity and fell on the ground. Oh man, there was a slight tremor I felt at the field (haha…).

However we lost to them, 1 to 3. Come on, we only practiced for around 15 minutes before the game. It was a good quality effort by everyone in SF.

SF is growing @ 11:40 PM