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Wednesday, June 4

Oh mann. Its already Wednesday! Time is passing so quickly but I really don't want this week to pass at all. Im liking the kids more and more and enjoyable dvc so much that I don't want to stop. It makes me feel as if there is a purpose in my life. Im being useful by being there for the kids when they need me, helping them and talking to them or playing with them. 2 more days left with these adorable kids...




The worst part of the day is the start of everything, before I get warmed up to talking to the kids and opening my mouth to speak. Early mornings are horrid because I will simply end up sitting alone at A9 bench and stoning(which is conserving energy!). This morning wasnt so bad since I was joined by dear Nicole soon after my arrival. She sat with me and we both chatted together until the other children plus my partner came.




Today's experiments were a lot more fun and they really tested the children's creativity. I must admit that these children certainly had way more creative juices than I ever had! I had so much fun looking at all the stuffs they did. My partner even commented that it seemed like I was having more fun than the kids! But after a while he also went round looking at all those stuffs they did.



The wheezles(however you spell it) experiment was damn fun! But it was irritating to the max as well. Somehow my partner managed to get that thing to work and he attempted to teach me too. But no matter how hard I tried, it still didnt work for me! I got so exasperated that I made my partner repeat what he did so that I could observe closely. Then Nicole came up and wanted to see what he was doing. So he tried to teach her too. And it didnt work for her either! We were both bugging him for the trick to that experiment when he did something totally out of character! I never ever expected him to do that mann!



My partner placed the wheezle thing down on the table, then did some act cool slick hand actions copying americans and said in a mock british accent, "So easy!" Nicole's jaw practically fell open at his comment. I totally burst out laughing like mad. Even my partner seemed amused by himself and nicole's reaction too. The next few minutes were spent watching nicole frantically persuading my partner to repeat his action so that she could record it down in her phone. Obviously, he refused to do so but he made some weird actions instead.




I used to think that my previous dvc partner was bad enough since he kept niao-ing me non stop but this new partner is worse! The thing is, I cant niao him back! Gah. And it's quite clear to me that he is deliberately saying all those stuffs to piss me off! Except that Im not really pissed, more like amused at all the different ways he can make me completely speechless. Oh, not only speechless but dumb too.




Oh, and he made me feel like a kid under his wing too. In the midst of one experiment, he gave me 3 toothpicks and told me to form 3 equal triangles with it. Then he went to carry out the experiment and told me to "man4 man4 qu4 wan2 ba" ...



Like I was some kind of kid to pacify and keep me occupied so that I wont disturb him! Haha, but the challenge set did get me excited though. Im in fact really no much different from the kids in class. Perhaps that is why I, like most of the kids, cannot understand half of whatever he says.



When I was asking him about army stuffs he told me some chinese term which I didnt understand. So I was like huh? Then he said it in english, and clearly me with my limited knowledge didnt know either. So I stared at him blankly and huh-ed again. To which he gave a long exaggerated sigh and then said he only can speak english and chinese, malay and tamil he cant speak...gah!



Hmmm, but even though I was quite exasperated by him(and him me i think) somehow he feels just like what an older brother would be. Because even though I think he got quite tired of answering my endless simplest basic questions about experiments, he will still eventually explain it to me.



.....I WANT AN ELDER BROTHER!!!




Sigh...there are so much stuffs I want to say but things are really hard to put into words. If only there is a way to simply locked up all the events which happened and then view it again when I feel like it.




Gabriel gave me a blue slip of paper with a drawing of a fist clenched in a GOOD! action. Seriously, his drawing is superb for a 9 year old. This kid has clear potential in drawing as well as science. The day before he actually called me to his table and showed me a drawing of some machines used for recycling glass. Then he actually explained to me the machanisms and how glass can be recycled! I was awestruck by him totally.



Okay...enough with gushing over him. Its late...




Im off!

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