23 June 2009 (Boston) - tuesday
morning was free and intended to go to some shopping cos my and abby heard that VS ( victoria Secrets) sales is ending very soon... and there are still lotsa things that we need to get! However, we did not really go in the end becos project is in hand and it was a more important thing that we needed to clear...
However, things in the afternoon pissed me off so bad that i started to change my attitude towards the lessons with my some wat favorite "Ang moh" teacher; Ms Nancy Clark.... thanks to that fucking teacher; Juliet... Nancy just left the room for just a while and she like took over the class liao.... and the worst thing is, she became the "clown" to try her very best to like befriend with us... which is like obviously very fake! and then the other students are lyk insulting her and she still continues to talk and be thick skin to stand in front of the class and change the way Nancy is trying to teach us... In addition, she have actually confused what we are learning and have already known.... I was so fucking angry to the extent i told abby," can she just lyk fuck off and shut up! we are going to see her the next 8 weeks after the boston trip and she still stand in front of us to talk cock! Fuck off and give us more time to sleep and rest so that later we will have enough energy to shop!!!"
Any way, the class ended and this is wat happens....
*Abby's happy face after shopping and getting a victoria secrets paper bag!
*this is what abby bought and most of the items are at non discounted price....
*this is what I bought but at more discounted rate! so all in all, i still spend lesser than abby on the items are victoria secrets!! :)
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24 June 2009 (Boston)
It was a very interesting start for today! although we woke up like super early and everyone was still tired, we sat on the T to go to a childcare center which is called "head-start program".
A little about the center:
- this center is fully funded by the government to allow children from low income family to enrole in it... Parents do not have to pay a single centre even for the enrolement...
- in this center, there is everything... this include dental, early intervention room and transition rooms that allows the infant and toddlers to get use to the timing in the pre- k class....
- Service provided includes free dental screening, free diagnosis whether the child is special needs in any way, free meals, free diapers for children, free formular milk, etc....
*Child size funiture for them to help themselves up into a standing position, and the edges of the shelves are actually very rounded so that children will not get hurt easily...
*this is like their circle time and despite the teacher is singing songs, children are moving around, showing no interest in the session... the teachers did not scold them and force them to sit down, but instead she respected them and understand that they might not be interesting in the singing....
* this is like a picture of the entire classroom that we entered and we can see that the furniture are mostly catering for young children and there are losta space which is actually to accomodate children or adults who are physically disabled, to move around....
From this exeperience, i would just want to conclude that Singapore should be ashame of their child care policies and the way that the system is doing things.... In the childcare at boston, everything is child-centered.... everything the teachers are doing, is done with a mindset of putting the child before anything... although there is a time table that they need to follow... but the teachers there are saying that the timing for the infant and the toddlers are actually more flexible and should be changed or make arrangement according to the individual needs ad interest of the child.. Unlike Singapore, everything is objective base.... and due to the standards that the teachers have to meet, it becomes that the teachers are putting the standards and objectives from the school system before the children... which i tink is not correct....
Ch@rlotte tEo
|7:22 PM|
