Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Yesterday I had to change the date of the field trip to Sunday, March 21, because the park will be closed on the twentieth for an exclusive event. At least that’s what is says on their posters.

So far there have only been two students who complained. Well, one complained. Two others wanted me to change it to Friday the nineteenth instead, despite the fact that they have classes on that day up to the afternoon and won’t be able to spend more than four hours in the park.

I’m sticking with Sunday, though, and I posted announcements in the hallway outside the faculty room about changing the date in their consent form accordingly. This is to complement the text brigade I also started the night before.

In the mechanics lab yesterday there were two students from the Wednesday group who actually made up for the second activity (Errors) that they missed. This is because David is implementing the rule that attendance in the sessions are a must, else they would be given an incomplete grade in the subject. I think there are rules for making up an absence, which includes an excuse letter, but I haven’t really gotten it clear yet.

This is as opposed to the practice I’m previously used to, wherein only the requirements to be submitted are a must. Attendance is only required for experiments a student is supposed to make an individual report for.

Only now am I starting to realize that after all, David is a fresh graduate. Just like I was ideal in my first years of teaching, I was expecting a lot from the students.

He gets a lot of his ideas from the documents I give him, though, including what to write for the different parts of the individual report. In fact, he’s asking me to look up an old final exam for him to use in the lab next month.

I left the lab after all the groups have returned their equipment, and I proceeded to make one of my assignments for the Open Campus and College Fun Day tomorrow, which is a table (two actually: one for the accepted applicants, another for the guests) of the parallel activities.

The schedule table had to be divided to up to five simultaneous events at thirty-minute increments at worst. This is because the paintball sessions are every half hour, and some of the other games: kickball, volleyball, badminton and table tennis, have men’s and women’s divisions also, as well as some mixed doubles.

Besides that there’s also the kite making and flying, poster making, the robotics demonstration, the website project demo, and the bike race, all amidst the orientations and the tours.

I also finished stapling up to 200 copies of the flyer, the schedule and the site map before I left home yesterday. The students, under Maila and Ronnie’s supervision, also made and put up streamers, put up the banners of the sponsors, made the nametags, and set up the classrooms.

We left school at 730pm, and will be returning less than 12 hours later. I don’t know if the other committees feel that they haven’t done enough, but my part is mostly ready, except for the spiel for the tours, and notes for other guides, if needed.