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Saturday 11 July 2015
@11:50
I'm feeling so proud of myself now. For not being impatient with my sis and not even raising my voice as I helped her with her homework. This is when I realise that I've learnt so much from my internship place.
All the journal articles that I've read, the many textbook chapters that I've read, the supervision I've gotten for therapy sessions etc, I've gained so much knowledge about teaching and dealing with children with behavioural problems. My sis don't have very bad behavioural problems, but she's really just not very compliant at times. The kids at the centre are in fact, worse.
And today I saw my sister smile as she did her homework. I showered her with many praises for the work that she had done and for the very simple words that she could spell etc. My sis can't really read or spell much, so when she does, I gave her a lot of praises and she smiled and laughed. She became very compliant too!
My sis doing her work really nicely :)
I used to raise my voice or scold her when she refuses to answer me when I asked her questions. But this time, I decided to use the positive approach, after what I've learnt from my internship, to keep encouraging her to try giving me an answer and then giving her positive reinforcements once she really gives an answer. And it worked. I'm really glad :)
Ignoring the inconsequential behaviours works as well, acknowledging them but not making a fuss out of those behaviours to show her that it's no big deal, so that she'll just go on and finish up her homework.
Yep, I'm really thankful for the internship opportunity and what I've learnt so far.
It's my first time not flaring up at my sis. Hahaha. I know I'm such a bad sis right. I always feel like I can't teach her because I get really impatient with her. But now that I've learnt the skills to be firm with her, yet encouraging at the same time, and she starts to listen to me, maybe I can start to slowly teach my sister. Hopefully she'll continue to improve in her academics!
&the pages keep turning.
Thursday 9 July 2015
@20:57
The past two weeks passed quickly for me. I think it's partly because I'm not doing any summary at work. Haha. I've been busy with other things. Time only passes very slowly when I'm doing the dreadful summary. I find it pretty amazing that I've completed 6 summaries and read about 10 journal articles in a month. I swear it's worse than school. HAHAHAHA. Okay, but maybe I'll become much better at reading and writing the end of this internship :) Hopefully.
The past two weeks might have passed quickly because I did meet a couple of friends during the week too! It's been eventful!
I started teaching theory to my violin mate. Like whatever I learn from Jasper, I teach it to her as well (hope he doesn't mind). I do hope that she actually understood what I taught her. I'm so scared that I've been a bad teacher.. :/ I haven't ask her on her progress in doing the workbook, but since she hasn't asked me any question so far, she must be coping well. Or... she hasn't started practising! Hope that it's the former.
I also met SY last Friday. It was supposed to be dinner with both Nic and SY but this Nicholas Lee Guo Jie just had to fall sick! Sighpie.
Moooooo | __ |
Mehsir ;) Our kind host
I just thought this picture looks very nice ;)
My favourite boy at school ;)
I always feel heartwarmed talking to Nic and SY. They're very involved in the community, with volunteering etc. SY was also telling me about what she's doing at her internship place. And I feel happy to have friends who care so much for the community and willing to reach out to others. Then I feel a little guilty for not doing so. Like I feel that I'm too caught up with my own life to do any other thing. Yea. I think I am too caught up with my own life. I appreciate the free time that I have. I don't like being busy. So joining volunteering thingy is a huge commitment for me. Like I want to do my best if I were to join one. But I'm afraid of commitment.
On Sunday, I went to help out with Project CAN, together with Ni Yi. NY encouraged me to join. If he didn't ask, I probably wouldn't think of joining actually. But I'm glad I did. I was heartwarmed by people's kind gestures, who would specially buy extra groceries from the supermarket so that they can donate some to the cause. And there were many passionate people who volunteered as well. It was pretty nice making some new friends too!
The primary school gang (finally) met up too! Guess what, we spent 20 BUCKS at Bedok 85. Each person 20 bucks no kidding. HAHAHAHA. We ordered about 7 dishes there. Like gluttons. Hahah! But yea, finally met them after so long of planning and postponing it.
On other days, I met Wen Yi for almost the whole of Saturday to go shopping with her and I bought a new pair of shoes :) Shoes that I have been looking for for the past few months! So yippee! Then met Jac too on Monday to have some Punggol Nasi Lemak! The nasi lemak was expensive though :( Paid $4.80 for mine. But the rice was super duper fragrant! We chit chatted about travelling, school and all :) It was a simple affair. Hahahaha. Now that I think of it, she is my not-so-secret-lover ;D Last night, I met Emm for a catch up! Talking about our respective internships :) Her internship environment and mine are really very different. Just like how children with autism are on a spectrum, our experiences are somewhat like they're on a spectrum as well. Very different environment even though we both work with autistic children. Interesting :)
I like my past two weeks :) But I guess when school starts, people won't have that much time to meet up anymore. Or those who have started working might not have that much time to hang out too. I'll treasure all these little meet ups that I have with my friends!
While there were lots of happy moments, my mind is in chaos now.
I'm feeling a lot better today so I guess it'll be even better tomorrow!
&the pages keep turning.
