There goes my distinction...

It was a good day for me today. My supervisor came for my 2nd observation. He was impressed with my lesson. He likes it a lot. In fact, he's trying to push my grades to a distinction. UNFORTUNATELY, my CT is not supporting me. He doesn't think that I deserve a distinction. I won't lie and say that I'm not disappointed. I mean, I feel that if I were given the opportunity to practice GCA for the past 6-7 weeks instead of the Sports Ed Model, then a distinction is definitely mine. Just because my CT thinks that the GCA sucks, I am being deprived of the distinction? Doesn't make sense right? Oh well, I guess life isn't fair. No point sulking or complaining about it. Nothing much I can do if my CT doesn't endorse it.

As for yesterday, it was unbelievable. I attended the National Schools Cross Country held at Turf City. It was beautiful!!!! I mean the atmosphere was fantastic. Supporters from elite schools like Victoria, Raffles, Hwa Chong families were down by truck loads. It's that identity that they forge for themselves that's unbelievable. However, I'm proud to say that I am doing my practicum at AISS. The B Division girls came in 4th team overall. A fantastic feat considering that it's ALWAYS the elite schools dominating over the past years. Ever since my time in school, it's always the same old school. It's good to see neighbourhood schools succeeding. A number of our students got injured as well. One C Division girl fainted while running halfway. Another (Irni) was dehydrated and fainted upon completion. As Mr Rauf attended to Alex (the one that fainted halfway), the C Div girls and myself were making sure that Irni was alright. I was afraid that she had heat stroke. We carried her up, applied ice on her head to bring down the heat. Slowly give her water and she's alright after 30 min. Weiwen came in first for the C Div girls. Our C Boys didn't do too well. The B Boys did fantastic too. One sec 5 boy came in 21st. He just missed out on an individual medal. I feel for him. All the boys had no injury problems. It was the girls that had injuries. Sprained ankles and heat stroke.
In general, I am impressed with Mr Rauf. One man show producing results. Hats off to him.

Regards,
RuDy