Friday, October 27, 2006

Hi everyone!
So happy... first to read your blog and then to post.
I will post some photos when I return to school on Monday cos my photos are all in the school's laptop (and it is Sat now).

Reading the blog (not all of it, just some excerpts) brings back many happy memories indeed! Although I didn't spend all the 2 years with you (had some maternity leave and then pregnancy leave thrown in!), I think you're the closest class to me.

All in all, I have been teaching in hc 5 years and my first CT was 01S7C which I took only halfway (for less than one year) because their previous CT was a mother tongue teacher or something and couldn't write testimonials. The next CT was you guys and then I went another full cycle of JC 1-JC2 and for the 05 batch, I have no CT, so yup!! that's why... And of course you guys went through so much with me, both your milestones and my own milestones. You saw through both of my kids' pregnancies! :-)

Things are very different in school now, a lot has changed, both students, teachers, physical school environment and so on. I think you'd have noticed during MAF? or maybe it was too short a time then or too dark, haha.

Even for myself, the way I teach and the way I interact with students has changed too, with every batch! I will be sad to leave end of this year for sure... though long time ago when my hubby first announced his intention to pursue further studies in the USA, I was secretly happy to stop working and follow him. haha, but now I am feeling the reluctance, the nostalgia, the sadness of leaving.

Not that I don't look forward to the new experience! I will be glad to have a change, to have more time for my kids etc... Although I will be super busy with housework and 24/7 care of my kids, but I am sure I will be happy to explore the mountains, the national parks there... the wildlife/ flora/ fauna would be different from here and I will soak up everything new there. There are no beaches though, Salt Lake city is in Utah (northwest or somewhat central USA) where it is mountainous only. So I will miss the sea! And cheap seafood!

Aiyah better not launch into everything I will miss. Cos the next in line will be food and aiyoh, there will be so much I will dearly miss!

ok, will post some photos of my family and some recent photos of teachers in hc soon...

see ya
mrs goh

tjmummy rocking off at 11:49 PM

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