Extra curricular stuff

Working with International school kids is ok but I miss my tamil school kids a lot.

I saw some of my camp students today. I was volunteering at a ceremony held by EWRF, Educational Welfare and Research Funding. It was to give certificates and congratulate all those students from Tamil schools who got 7 straight A's in their USPR exams, ( national exams taken at age 11) The malaysians only have to take 5 exams but the Tamil and chinese school kids have to take 7 and they still do much better. There were 377 kids who got 7 A's. And also 5 students who got 12 straight A's in their GCSE's came to talk about their success. All these students will get funding from EWRC until they finish university. Most are from poor tamil families so it is really good.

There is so much discrimination here. You cant do the subjects you want to do at Uni unless you are Malay, you can't get a bank loan to study unless you are Malay etc and the Malays are dont have to work half as hard to get what they want. So its not very fair and makes me quite sick. Thank god for EWRF But still sometimes there are kids that get 6A's and 1B and they dont get any funding.....so its quite sad.

Anyway tommorrow I'm going to a Tamil school to help clean it up, and paint and stuff as its in a really bad state.

At the moment I'm also preparing exam papers for my kids...feel like a real teacher now. Marked some essays yesterday, gave kids 1/10, 2/10 and these were the English kids in my class, even the Chinese ones who struggle with English got better marks, but then their parents are quite competitive when it come to their kids performance so they put a lot of pressure on them! One little 8 year old Chinese girl, a very sweet little girl gets caned by her mother if she gets less than 100% in any work that she does!

Well I think I'm coming back to UK for a few weeks during the summer holidays, looking forward to it, no mare handwashing my clothes, carpets, sandwiches, salads, chicken madras, sausage rolls, seeing all my friends and family.