So two days later, I went in for an 'informal' interview. They were already gonna let me in but Debbie wanted to know what I wanted and stuff. And I didn't really want anything. Kind of weird making demands when you were the one who suddenly barged in. She had another assistant already, an ex-IB student on GAP year - Nicky (who the IB peeps from my year level should know, she's just one year below). But yeah... since BGIC is next month she'll be working on that and I'll be working in Debbie's extremely busy office (I guess this is what happens when you are the school counsellor, English, Geography and PSE teacher, CAS Coordinator and whatever various other little projects at the same time. Her room has visitors every 15 minutes.
I generally make posters, cut things, clean things up, organise things, pass around messages, make phone calls, book rooms, and do so many little odd jobs I can't even remember anymore. On an average day I do around 10 differents tasks in a timespan of 7:15 AM - around 2:00 PM-ish. I wasn't too happy there at first, all the teachers are different so I was a bit lonely. Don't have friends at ISB either (I dunno the IB people cause like... I wasn't the one who knew our juniors and yeah... I left ISB 4 years ago anyway). So far I've talked to a number of em' though. Ms. Hancox was still around and she reconigsed me instantly, I suspect that she might be why I got in from her comments (said something like "I told em' I knew you" and that "If this is the Celine I'm thinking of she is a responsible, hard-working.. [insert compliment here]". Ms. Wong reconigsed me after a few days (this was funny, I just bumped into her, sad "Hi" shyly and walked off to the staff room kitchen and she did the same... but ran back to me and was like "Are you Celine?? Celine Hong???". She gave me a hug, said I looked impressive now (all grown up and pretty~). Haha, I knew Ms. Wong since I was 9 or 10 so... being 20 now is pretty funny. Ms. Wong is the same as ever (young and beautiful *__*).
Besides that... umm.. Debbie got me to meet a lot of the English teachers. So I generally help out Mr. Grieves once in a while, and I head over to primary two times a week to sit around in Mr. Barett's year 6 class. And yeah I do odd jobs for everyone else. Mr. Grieves is an aussie from Williamstown, so it was funny when he was bringing in aussie slang to English class (he said maccas!! XD). It has been raining in Brunei lately, on a daily basis (since my bday actually) so it's a bit... meh. The gloom and all. And my shoes are getting dirty since I have to walk around so much. I should mention that I've so far barged into dozens of classes passing messages and things. Even if people have no clue who I am they can recongise my face, lol. I dislike barging in though, cause everyone stops moving and stares at you. T.T And I'm just like... "uhhh... yeah.. umm... uhh what was I doing here for again.. oh right!"
Tomorrow is a year 8 field trip to Pusat Bahagia, an arts and crafts school for disabled children. The kids are painting a mural on one of the building walls, cleaning the school up, helping the kids make the crafts and interacting with them. At this school, the crafts made are sold to help raise funds. Apparently ISB wants to take some of these crafts and sell them to donate to the school (although we currently have a lot of fundraisers happening, I would know cause I seem to make posters for all of them - at the top of my head... bake sale to raise funds for a poor Viet toddler who lost a limb to a dog, donations are for his reconstruction surgery, collecting pencil donations for Malaysia flood victims through the organisation: Mercy Malaysia... and it goes on). Funny enough, Mr. Barett's year 6 class is heading to Gadong tomorrow (there doing some colouring worksheet where they count the number of stuff like certain stores, public facilties, bus stops, loading zones and what not). He asked me to come but yeah... one or the other, I think it's more worthwhile for me to check out Pusat Bahagia as I've not been there.
At home... I uhh... go online, do absolutely nothing and continue being bored. The past week I've gone on a reading streak, I've spent ages making this book list (complete with pictures), currently still calculating how many novels I've read so far (it would near about 80). I want to buy so many books now to check it out, it isn't funny. And most of the stuff I want are chick-lits! I seem to be going back into wanting to hear mushy love stories about the most sweetest guys and a women's dodgy and difficult love life where she finally finds the perfect guy in the end (and they live happily after - although we always know that things are never happily ever after - but it's good to hope). Currently reading...
Haha, yeah, Sophie Kinsella lololol. Well, it's an easy read so I wanted it. A bit refreshing after a semester of Dickens and Bronte. Tony Parsons newest book was an impulse buy. I never read his ever so famous "Man and Boy" but yeah, it's pretty interesting. About an English man who's family moves to Shanghai to find a better life. Then he realises what a place China is, especially their "second wife" system, you know... with all those 40 year old secretly having mistresses or a 'permanent girlfriend' as they call with young and beautiful women. I know about this all too well (haha my greatest fear maybe? Marriage is happily ever after until you get old and ugly and someone wants something more new and exciting).
Sophie Kinsella is Sophie Kinsella. Shameless and materialistic, but hilarious. There should be a movie coming out soon for Confessions of a Shopaholic. Am trying to finish both books by the end of the week. Then hopefully I'll continue and finish off Jonathan Stroud's "The Golem's Eye" and maybe either start on the second book of Twilight or Cathy Ahern's "Thanks for the Memories".
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