busy busy busy...

For the past couple of weeks, because my students were having their mid-year, it wasnt an easy time for the teachers as well. We were practically slogging away, battling with piles and piles of marking that comes in like avalanches- massive, abrupt and rapid flow..as well as dragging our feets to invigilate the exams, and yet at the back of our minds, we have tons of marking to do and worse of all,we cant bring a single sheet of marking into the exam hall or classroom. "That is cruel", I feel sometimes as I walk around, lamenting away.

Worse of all, teachers in my school battle with lack of space...I felt like I was seriously "covered with snow".

So, one day, I decided to draw my camera to take a picture of the state of my table..





I am usually one who doesnt really complain because I only feel that when you complain, its just a sign of weakness. So for the record, I am human and yes, I still do complain..only because this year, I seem to have so much more marking.

I had to mark 18 sets of papers...of which each set means one class..and one class means average 40 students! And one student's work can amount to 10-15 pages of work!
So, if I do a quick calculation, that is saying I marked 720 students' work and if each student hands in say an average of 6 pages, I actually marked about 4320 pages!

If you cant imagine how much is 4320 pages? Well, it actually means, taking out your residential listing phonebook and marking it through that 2.5 times as each phonebook is about 1700 pages! (I am not talking about the business listing directory or yellow pages, which is much thinner)

So, now that my marking is all over, am I more free now? I wish...

I had to immediately step up my pace and come up with remarks for my form class, for their report books, prepare lessons to continue teaching the syllabus for my Math classes, mark CME projects, key in all the grades of all subjects of my form class into the system.

Its really never ending....

But I guess if you ask me: do I rather be bored or doing all these? Then, I can tell you straight that I would still prefer to be busy doing work then doing nothing.

So, any complains? Nope..not at all.