After

Most of the time, teachers' job is more than just during hours in school.
Very often, the teachers will still be at work after the official school hours.

Just today alone...
Straight after 2nd session dismissal, I spent ~15mins coaching Child JT. This happens twice a week and on my own freewill as felt the child needs that extra help academically. Though may not help a lot but just doing my level best to prepare Child JT for Primary 1.

After that I made a quick trip to Nex to get the shirts for my girls as I wanted them to try the sizes tomorrow and hopefully settle it over this weekend. Time is running!

Came back school - called Child GT’s mum to arrange birthday party, did markings and settled admin for graduation.

At about 7pm, went for home visit with colleagues. We spent a solid 2hrs there. Appreciate the great hospitality of the parents and grandmother who actually prepared dinner for us.

That’s not the end.
Just when I checked my phone, I received messages from a parent (yes, some parents have my personal number) and said that Child JD who was absent today wants to talk to me.
I called back immediately. Spoke to the child who just wanted to tell me wont be coming to school tomorrow.

As fruitful as a home visit like this, especially when parents shared that the child likes you more than their teacher last year and of course the great bonding time... it can be tiring and especially if the home visit is after school/in the night.

Now the "mentally tiring" part is knowing that after being home, bath and rest… in hours time will be back to the place where I left hours ago.

Asking God for strength, more strength.
Tomorrow will be another concert walk-through and then graduation items practices.

The session that we had two days ago was pretty “interesting”.
The K2 children were literally saying that they were tired. Could really see their relieved face when we had them to sit down to rest.
Seriously speaking, not just the children, us the teachers felt too and especially after two sessions - literally no break, tight timing. 

The day went...
All levels of children went up to hall almost immediately after assembly and toileting.
The first walk-through (Grand Entrance)...  being a WALK-through means that the children really walked and walked. We did for two rounds. 

Next was to practice their Grand Finale item, they were still standing (at least for the K2s). The children then went back classroom for snack. 

Other levels stayed in their class but the K2s went straight back to hall again and this time to practice K2 special item. And likewise, the children were standing, walking, doing actions, going up and down stairs. Not forgetting to take instructions given and memorize as much as possible. 

With all these, many thumbs for the K2s! 
They may verbally tell us "we are tired already" but they have never once literally refused to do or didn't give their best.