testing with children #2 - day one
1st day of testing with young children again.
This time, the mood of testing was very different from my very first time of testing. Perhaps, it's because I woke up at 5.45am in the mood (ended up quite tired to really play with the kids genki-ly). Perhaps, the testing, I felt is more of a formal activity, with the school principals and teachers keeping an eye on me. Perhaps, it's doesn't help much that I'm doing my testing in the meeting room next to the vice-principal's room. Sounds travel you know. I can't meow, I can't snort, I can't even play a fool with them. Haiz.. I feel restricted. I kinda miss the previous opportunity of doing my testings in their big spacious lighted kitchen, while sitting on the comfortable-for-bottoms-but-not-so-comfortable-for-back beanbags.
Nevertheless, it was still good fun, though I'm abit short of patience today. -_- Unlike the previous testing, whereby the first little girl tired me out, an over-enthusiastic little girl conclude my day today. Lol~ Actually, since this is a once in a lifetime experience, so I shall describe all my little participants.
#1- Boy. To be honest, I can't remember much about him. *sweats* ((edited)) Oh yes, he like mint ice cream, like me! :)
#2- Boy. This is a little Korean boy who can't speak Korean - but laughed when I said "Ahnnyounghaseyo" to him. Asked me am I learning English here? *pengz* Is my engrish that fobby?!! I was half-amused, and half-offended. Actually, I was more amused than anything. So when I said I speak English and Chinese from young, he asked to say "Yes. No. Hello. Good morning." in Chinese. Hmm.. Apparently, "bu shi" is considered as a baad word. Now, thinking bad about it, did he hear as "bull shit"?? Then, I embarrassed myself halfway through our testing when my stomach growled, REALLY loudly. Lol. He was like, "what's that sound?" *sweats* Sorry #2 boy, it was my stomach. We were both very hungry for morning tea. Heheh..
#3- Girl. A sweet girl who like to read, write and colour. Her favourite colours are, pink, red, green, blue, yellow, purple, black, gold, orange.. and and.. what other colours I have didn't mention yet? Lol.
#4- Boy. Ah, this is the little boy who asked, "Are you from China? You looked like you're from China." -_- Alriight, I shall not comment anything at this one. But I can't help but told him, "Technically yes, since my grandfathers come from China."
#5- Girl. This is another sweet girl, who honestly nodded her head when I asked, "Are you afraid of me?" Hahah.. Poor girl, who had to follow this stranger at the orders of her teacher. I understand... *nod nod* Hopefully, she wasn't that afraid of me at the end of the session. ^^; But she's quite cute too, when I asked her.. "Do you like..... ?" Her responses will always be, "Yes I like........... ..................silence.........." For example,
"What do you like to do?"
"I like.............." silence
"Read?" (I prompted)
"Yes, read!"
"What else....?"
"I like...................." silence.
*sweats*
The same with colours, games, food, stories, movies..
#6 - Girl. This is the little "monster" of the day. Hahhaha.. Just joking. But she was an exteremly enthusiatic little girl. Instead of the usual 45 minutes like other kids, I spent 1 hr and 10 min with her. *sweats* She had to balance my story cards on her head, balance the colourpens, stick the colour/shapes onto her hair to no end, until..she discovered it was more fun when she sticked them onto MY hair. -_-;;; Oh well, whatever. You can do whatever you're happy, as long as you finish the session with me. Lol.. Though at a point of time, I really felt like stopping for her, since she's not concentrating on the last task. Fortunately, I'd perserved abit more, and discovered hey, I still could work with her.. just that it took longer.
So, 6 children for today. Hmm.... alright I guess. I was hoping I could do more though. Too ambitous? Hmm.. let's see how it goes for tomorrow. All boys tomorrow~
Oh yah, I forgot to mention 1 thing. When I led the child to the testing room, I will always close the door, so that outside won't be so distracting for the kid, and I can have some privacy too. But before I do so, I always ask them, "Are you afraid of me?" Hehe.. for some reason, all the little boys are extremely amused by this question, even more when I asked them "Are you really really sure?" when they shook their head. Hmm... I wondered why...