Grin and Bear It.

In about 2 days I will be back in my little box of a living space.


Was talking to Juliet sometime last week about change.
Change is the one thing that will not change in this life.
And yet, we fight change when it comes, as it surely will, looking for that happy equilibrium.

I've come to think of life in fluctuations.
I'm a Life Surfer.
I ride the waves when they come.
Sometimes I crash and sputter a little, but I always get back on my board and try again.
Sometimes I ride glorious wave after wave in blissful exhilaration.
And sometimes it takes a while to get my balance back again.

(BTW, it's strangely ironic for me to use surfing as a metaphor since I have not surfed once in my life... yet I imagine that is what it is like.)


So here we go again.
I ride the wave of "Goodbye Singapore, Hello Thailand".
A new school term will begin for me on Monday.
Writing lesson plans, cutting coloured paper, researching for ideas on the internet, making photocopies of worksheets, marking homework, counselling students....



I don't usually make new year resolutions, because I don't like to make vows I cannot keep.
But this year, I have a few.... not telling what they all are, but one of them at least is...
I pray that God will teach me patience and love for the young minds and hearts that I come into contact with everyday.

I am not an information dispenser, as a teacher, my goal is to be learn to see each of them with unfettered eyes - each child's potential and talent... and to encourage and support them in their own search for themselves in a broken and unforgiving world.