Haha, for the past two days I've been working in a secondary school as a facilitator for this bio enrichment workshop conducted for the students. Wouldn't call myself a teacher, although that's what the students called me.. haha

What an eye opening experience it was.. I still can remember the days in secondary school where everything was just about study and play. So I guess it was some kind of retribution of sorts that now it's my turn to handle these kids. Man were they a rowdy bunch.. I had to literally go around and wake up sleeping kids, confiscate things from kids that were fooling around. And to imagine I got one of the better classes - one of the other classes only had 1/8 of the students turn up for the second day.

If you were to put me into this course right now as a secondary school student once again, this workshop would be something that I would look forward to. They were being taught how to grow bacterial cultures on agar plates - stuff that I have just learnt this semester! It's really cool that secondary school and JC kids nowadays have such opportunities to do things that I only get to do in university level.

It seemed to me though ,that my main job as the facilitator was more of riot control then much teaching. I'd suppose it had to do with that these were not Raffles Institution students for example, so probably they were not so inclined to learn something that seemed so irrelevant.

I actually felt for the kids in a way though. Could remember having similar after school excursions to PUB or such things.. those days, I was much more excited over the thought of going to arcade with the rest after the field trip, rather then the field trip itself. Haha..

Man, what wouldn't I give to go back to secondary school or even JC again..