The Holidays
Well holidays are always to die for. Or so it seems.





This holiday has been pretty eventful for me so far, having spent 2 weeks at Temasek Polytechnic engaging in a 3-D Animation course and having even spent time at the hospital because of a minor surgery.





It was rather tedious to go back to school, having to shed my personna as teacher and becoming a student once more. Perhaps this minor stint as a student was refreshing enough for me to put myself in my students' shoes. Having experienced frustrations in my learning made me think of my students who struggle daily in their algebra. This experience made me sit up and reflect that learning can only make sense if the students understand the logic behind the content. It was also rather tormenting having to sit through lessons from 9am to 5pm daily. If not for my entertaining comrades during the course, I think I would have died there and then.





Anyway, I did enjoy myself thoroughly during the sessions, for I learnt to draw and animate 3-D objects. Oh yes, I met quite a number of ex-students at TP itself too. I believe I shocked a couple of them and they had to do a double take to check that it was really me that they saw. Haha. Anyway, I discovered that TP has fantastic facilities and its canteens serve fabulous Western food.

As I mentioned earlier, I had to undergo surgery recently. In fact, I was more relieved than scared when the doctor told me that I had to undergo surgery for my condition as the pain was more than I could bear. My time spent at the hospital was like a game of waiting. Waiting to see the doctor, waiting for the nurses to push me to the ward via wheelchair, waiting for the doctor to extract blood, waiting for my turn to go into the operating theater. All in all, I waited a total of almost 10 hours before operation.

Thankfully the nurses and doctors were reassuring and gentle. Ironically, the surgery was done extremely quickly. All I could remember was that I was being wheeled into the operating theater, the doctor administering some injection into my IV drip, me breathing into a gas mask and I was out. When I regained consciousness, I remembered that I had weakly asked for some painkillers as the pain was excruciating and the doctor mentioned in a matter-of-fact that they had given me some morphine after the operation to ease my pain. I'm still recovering from the operation and have to abstain from seafood according to my mother. Hopefully, I'll be ready to bounce when school reopens.












Anyway, I hope to rest this week before I go back to school next week. There's camp and meetings and lots of other stuff. Anyway, you take care too!

Till next time
xoxoxo
- posted by NaNa @ 12:01 AM |