After 3 and a half days of work, I have: heard about 4-5 different accents (sometimes all in the same day), cleaned up a girl who "poopoo-ed", seen 2 vomitting cases, cleaned/bandaged dozens of injuries ("ouchies"), played Monopoly about a million times, and sworn off having kids forever.
Hahah no I'm kidding about the last one. Kids are an enigma. They're actually more complicated than they seem. Some are really sweet, while others are just pure evil haha. Oh and actually Singaporean kids are more well-behaved than their angmoh counterparts. I don't know if it's the parenting or the education system haha.

For example, there's Anneliese from Australia, who's super adorable. She chose to sit by me instead of the other kids, while we were watching TV :D And she gave me a keychain before she left!

Then there's the 5 year old German girl today, who practically attached herself to me and gave me random hugs :D:D And the 6 year old Korean girl who cuts herself and says to me very matter-of-factly: "See teacher, my leg!", then promptly goes back to whatever she was doing. These are the kids that I was really tempted to kidnap and bring home haha.

Contrast this to other terrors I get. Like this 8 year old girl from England, who really deserves to be spanked. She throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way, and blames others for her own mistakes. And she bawls over the smallest things!

Then there are the Jekyll-and-Hyde kinds. Like this girl from Australia, who threw a fit when I refused to let her stay in the pool longer. The same girl voluntarily shared her money with me during Monopoly after I became bankrupt haha. See, they are complicated beings!!

Haha but ok la, it's not sooo bad.. I do get to eat the lunch buffet for just $3! Though my lunchbreak isn't really a break cuz I have lunch with the kids so I'm technically still working. And I get to have healthier sleeping habits (no more 3am/12pm days!), not like I have a choice though. I'm usually so tired when I get home that I fall asleep by 12am. At least I'm being paid (peanuts) to play with kids! I get to kayak, play board games, and splash around in the pool. Although it's also my fault if anything happens to the kids haha. It's hard to find something else like this elsewhere :)



My eyes were dark
Til you woke me
And told me that opening is just the start