Red Packets.

You know Chinese New Year is getting near when your employer gives you red packets:

These red packets were given by the VTC Staff Recreation Club (of which I still have no idea if I am a member or not) to every staff at VTC. They look cute, and I think I might use a couple of them this Chinese New Year. I know I’m not married yet and probably don’t have to give out red packets yet, but it’s good to have them around, just in case I have to give to anyone.

All the classes that I have to conduct this week are over, and looking back at the last couple of days, I can say that I had a pretty decent teaching experience so far. It’s not easy to be a teacher these days, considering you have to deliver your lessons in such a way that the students are not going to be turned off. But I guess so far I can say that I managed to do so. The feeling of seeing them cracking a smile at the things that I’m saying or seeing them ask me questions are definitely heartwarming sights. It does appear to me that the learning environment in Hong Kong and Singapore are quite different. Of course perhaps my base of comparison isn’t exactly right, but in Hong Kong the students don’t seem to be afraid of asking the teacher anything. If they want to know something, they will open their mouth and ask. As for Singapore, I’m not too sure, but from all these years of studying there, it seems to me that people are not interested in asking – at least not in class. The students that I’m handling, they ask so many things in class, to an extent that I have difficulties answering them because my brain is not fast enough to process so many questions at once!

I don’t have any class tomorrow, so I’ll spend my day preparing for next week’s classes – and look forward to seeing Huimin who’s coming to town!