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Announcement: Thanks to my Fairy Blogmother

Ruthi — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:45:18 +0000

I had a little problem with this blog for the past few days. I can’t log in.

Well, okay it is not really a “little” problem. It is actually huge and I don’t know how to fix it. And worse… my Fairy Blogmother was on vacation. She and Hubby were on tour [...]

Subject Matter: The Teacher’s Alibis

Ruthi — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:54:09 +0000

Once a teacher… always a teacher. I believe in that.

Though I am not in the teaching profession right now and doing everything to avoid teaching… I can feel deep in my heart that one day I will be back in the classroom. And even if I had tons of alibis to [...]

Subject Matter: Responsibility

Ruthi — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:43 +0000

I had a busy weekend. I had to attend a whole day training last Saturday as required by the State for Child Care licensing. It was a very enlightening and productive training except for the crappy weather. And one of the things that really struck me was the topic on the “responsibility” of [...]

Hindsight: Storm

Ruthi — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:04:17 +0000

My ear was literally glued on the radio’s speaker as I listen to the news. It was not a good day. You could tell when you see those buckets in every room in the house almost half filed with rain water dripping from my dilapidated ceiling caused by the leakage on my rusted [...]

Subject Matter: Sentiments

Ruthi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:10:04 +0000

Having been out of work for almost a year now gives me the stress I have never experienced when I was still working. Strange but true. Work is one of the reasons why people are stressed out. But I have never realized that being at home and not working is more stressful [...]

Subject Matter: Preparedness

Ruthi — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:34:22 +0000

Be prepared! There will be a test tomorrow.

As a student, once the teacher said that… I would instantaneously succumb to a mild to serious panic attack depending on what kind of test the teacher was talking about. I hate test! Who doesn’t? Tests or exams have a negative implication regardless of [...]

Subject Matter: Decision Making

Ruthi — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:27:05 +0000

I wrote up 3 kids the other day for playing.

It’s was just another ordinary Friday afternoon and as expected I was multi-tasking – watching several kids doing beads bracelets at the “Crank it Up” station… doing the summary report of students’ attendance… computing the kids “steps” for the AOM program… writing [...]

Teaching the Teacher

Ruthi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:18:26 +0000

I talked to my long time friend and colleague on the phone last week. It was not the regular “hi-hello-goodbye-what’s-new-wuzzup” kind of call that we usually had. It was a tough conversation that was so hard to for me to digest. It was the most devastating news that I ever received so far [...]

Summer Camp Fever

Ruthi — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:13:51 +0000

Summer will soon be over. We only have one week left for the summer camp and school will start again. I wish I could have time to relax and take a vacation but I don’t think it will be possible considering that the summer camp ends on the 28th of August and school [...]

The Teacher that I Am

Ruthi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:40:40 +0000

I am a teacher by profession. I am a teacher by choice. I am a teacher by heart. I love teaching. Despite the fact that towards the end of my career I had some doubts if changing career was indeed the wisest decision I’ve ever made. I still love teaching because deep in my [...]