Gonna miss them...

I sat at the sheltered pathway chatting with Adeline during P5 & P6 recess. We talked about how street smart we were when we were young and how straight our pupils were these days. Indeed, sometimes I wondered how come the young people these days doesn't use their common sense to do work and even to play. Maybe we spoonfeed them too much from the very beginning.

As we talked, I realised that I taught this batch of P6 pupils when they were in Primary 1. It was my first-second year of teaching. I remembered having a very great year because I was amused by their cuteness.

I remembered:

1. I had to spend one PE period to teach them how to take out their plastic name tags from their PE shirt.
2. One girl cried everyday for the first two weeks of Term 1.
3. One girl was so small in size and her water bottle was proportionate to her size. I told her to refill her water and she said her mum told her she could not refill from the water cooler because she could only drink lukewarm water. I went to the staffroom to fill up her super small bottle for her and told her to get her mum to buy a new BIGGER one for her.
4. One girl hid under the table and refused to come out.
5. One irritating class that always made me angry during the last period of the day.
6. One boy had to go for an operation and I took a picture with him and prayed for him.
7. I played an alphabet game with all the classes and took pictures of them. (But I can't seem to locate the photos. Sad!)

And if I remembered the people correctly, it so happened that the person mentioned in no. 2, 3, 4 and 6 are now in the same class. They came from different classes in P1 and ended up in the same class in P6. What fond memories for me!

6 years have passed by just like that. They are going to graduate really soon. I think I'm gonna miss them lots next year.