Hardly have any time for updates these days. Had induction programmes until 4pm or 5pm each day. Lots of relief teaching. Lots of invigilations. On the contrary, not much of lesson observations. Today, for instance, I had 4 periods of invigilations and 4 periods of lesson observations. For two exams, I had to stay behind after my allocated slot to collect papers. And basically, my whole day was occupied, with no lunch time. I survived with a bun. Oh man, I hope I've better luck next week.

Stepped into normal technical classes several times for relief teaching. Really got to react on the spot. For instance, one of them just stood up and said "teacher, I love you". The whole class roared into laughter. I had only three seconds to think of how to react. Another time, one told me a list of bad things they did and asked if I'm scared. Three seconds to think and respond.

This is more challenging than university maths. Hopefully, at the end of the ESE, I can really handle these students.

At times, I couldn't help but ask myself, why did I give up the well-paid jobs in banks and the chance to do p.h.D for this teaching career? Especially when I was standing in front of a class of noisy students during relief teaching, when students were throwing papers at each other while I was collecting exam scripts, when I witnessed a public caning during assembly etc. Oh well. I try to convince myself that this is the group of students whom I can make a difference to. All they lack is just motivation.

Have been sleeping before 10 for the past few days. No lunch, no nap today. Sigh. I had no nap for the whole week. I miss my university days!