on growing

Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under On Me, Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

I’m so amazed with how fast children grow. Before I experienced this with Mateo, I witnessed this with my students. On my first year of teaching, I was the math teacher for the grade four class. They were a bunch of boisterous, gregarious kids. Some of them were so small, they look like first graders. [...]

GonnaBe

Posted on April 16, 2008 - Filed Under Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

As a math teacher, I’ve always have more than enough share of students who are having extreme difficulty with my subject. I know that each child just has his or her own strengths and sometimes, my subject is not one of them. I find it easier to deal with the child once I’ve discovered his [...]

summer transformation

Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Money Matters, Teaching | Leave a Comment

I’ve always been amazed at how the school transforms into a boisterous and rambunctious venue during most of the school year from an almost gloomy and dusty place during summer. I’m just pointing it out now because I had a chance to look around the school again this afternoon.
Devoid of teachers because of the summer [...]

no work, no pay

Posted on March 13, 2008 - Filed Under On Me, Teaching | Leave a Comment

As of a few weeks ago, I have had no work which means no pay When I gave birth to Mateo last January 2007, I made a choice to stay home for good. So from January to May of last year, I was a full time SAHM with no helper/yaya. It was difficult but [...]

time’s up

Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Mateo, On Me, Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

Our two-week long break is officially over. Ramil and I are sad beyond words. LOL. We were able to have a lot of quality time during the break. Majority of the break was spent in my parents’ house and being freeloaders, LOL! Mateo also enjoyed the holidays despite the fact that he slept through the [...]

almost over

Posted on January 5, 2008 - Filed Under Mateo, Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

Our two-week Christmas break is almost over. Wah!!! I am not physically, mentally, nor emotionally ready for it. I’m sure my students aren’t ready for it too. Hopefully, I get to squeeze in some much-needed work before Monday. Now, if only Mateo will give me time to work tomorrow…

back to school

Posted on December 21, 2007 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings, Ramil, Teaching | Leave a Comment

Ramil will be going back to school next June. He has long been wanting to take up the teaching units required of him. Both of us are not education graduates and yet we are teachers. Ramil took up BS Biology while I took up BS Mathematics. None of us seriously thought that we would be [...]

testing…

Posted on November 26, 2007 - Filed Under On Me, Teaching | Leave a Comment

It’s test time once again for my students. Little do they know that I am as nervous as them even though I’m not the one who’s going to be taking the test. Ever since I started teaching, I’ve realized that a test is not just for the students but for the teachers as well. Although [...]

valuing education

Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Money Matters, Ramblings, Teaching | Leave a Comment

With Mateo growing up, Ramil and I can’t seem to forget about our desire to pursue further studies. We believe that the way to instill the value of education in your children is to put value in it yourselves. All the information we’re getting about capella university is making us think about our plans again. [...]

keeping your system password protected

Posted on November 11, 2007 - Filed Under Money Matters, Teaching | 2 Comments

In my previous corporate job, I've experienced the hassle of needing to change your password every month. It was crazy trying to think of new passwords since we weren't allowed to repeat any. There were more than one occassion when I've had to call the IT department for a reset because I've forgotten my passwords. [...]

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