My take on Koko Crunch and kids. And oh yeah, Sir Oca humor.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

I don't get why there are people who hate kids. Have they never been kids? Did they just suddenly pop up out of a bud and was an adult?

I mean, how can they lie to themselves? Why wouldn't anyone want to run free and laugh loud like kids? People today are so morbid.

As a kid, I was different from most in finding out about the world. I loved to play and laugh, too, but when I came across something, I wasn't going to yell out WHY??? like most kids. It surprised me to see on TV, and later on around me, that kids usually acted that way when I didn't. I always thought through stuff, replayed them in my head, thought of alternatives, ask myself why instead of my mom or my dad. I think it was because I grew up the youngest in my family and they always knew about things that I didn't yet, so I tried to figure out and find out stuff on my own.

Wow, offtopic yun.

The reason why I consider teaching a career option (crap, mababasa to ng mga teacher ko, and I bet I'll get weird smiles and funny raised eyebrows) is because of kids. I used to teach literacy for GSP and I joined a ministry in church, Good News classes, that goes to depressed areas to give Bible stories and church invitations every Saturday. Then there's DVBS every year. The impact one leaves on his or her students is immensely satisfying. Anong klase ba namang trabaho ang feeling mo kinaladkad ka kalsada sa pagod pero hindi mo magawang hindi ngumiti? I love meeting my students outside of class. They always have a big smile for me, or come running to greet me. :D But the best part is when they tell you what your efforts and being a part of their lives mean to them. And isn't it important to make sure to raise kids well for the next generation?

Oh man. I sound like my teachers.

By the way, thank you to all my teachers, since Kinder, and up till now. I am so sorry I am such a pain in the ass. :)) Thank you for putting up with me, and pretending I didn't make your life harder. Thank you for patting me on the back and telling me what a great job I've done, when I know you saw my work was lame in real standards and the colors don't even correspond (I have a weird experience from way back last DVBS. I can't believe that in all my life, I'd see a mother pig with rainbow-colored piglets.). If ever I become a fulltime teacher, and even part time, I promise to do the same.

And ooooh. I had Koko Crunch for breakfast. Tastes like sunny mornings and grassy-smelling wind in Laguna, out where the hum of mornings would be the swish of the horde of mothers armed with their walis ting-ting, numerous chicken crows (I really don't understand where the chicken sounds come from. It was majorly an urbanized subdivision.), and krriiiiing and call of Mr Taho, and the smell of burning coconut husks (kulang ang probinsya feel for me kung walang amoy nyan) and fresh mornings.

My, my. I never realized I lived so ideally poetically.

Actually, speaking of kids, this was one of my favorite foods as a kid, and up till now.

Ang drama ko naman. Ang tagal ko na kasing hindi nakakakain ng Koko Crunch eh.

At eto ang hinahanap mo sa blog post na to kung taga-DCHS ka:

Sir Oca was explaining how to inverse functions. He finds out that we don't exactly know what functions are, except, of course, for Dio. Eh kasi ba naman, nung first lesson about functions, binaha niya kami ng activity sheets na ginamitan na lang namin ng common sense sa pagsagot. Pero at least hindi kami feeling bobo sa subject niya. Extremely fascinated lang kapag nageexplain siya.

Anyway. Sorry, got carried away. He was writing one equation after another, asking us which were functions, Dio only whispering the answers, so tameme talaga kami.

Sir Oca: (writes then points to equation) Is this a function? (writes and points to another) Is this a function? (Before he moves to a cleaner board) CLASS! Are we functioning???

Nawala yung nosebleed silence. Tawa kami. Da best talaga itong si Sir Oca. :))