Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Marking Seatings ...

Marking ... (1st seating) it's 1.15am, i only completed 1 but my head is already spinning and i am in a very foul mood. how can i not be foul when my instructions were very clear but there IS one, one particular soul who has just had to go against them, 1 particular soul who loves to negotiate my instructions ... this time, i'm gonna strike! Dear MY students, please be informed/well-informed that I HATE students who like to alter schedules/instructions that i gave earlier. never make any changes to my prior arrangement for any stupid reasons but death, fall flat in the hospital or anything of par, if not, don't you all dare!!!! Marking …

(2nd seating)
11am – 1pm
When I started I intended to complete at least 5 … thank God I managed despite the throbbing headache after the 2nd essay... how can my head stay rational and calm if the essays have no focus and were flowered with the silliest mistake students can make in their 13th year of English learning … imagine marking essays where students just couldn’t find the tempo of having their subject-verb-agreement placed appropriately in a sentence … 10 000 times telling them is just like talking to the deaf, dead walls … I don’t wanna care anymore, if the want good marks they just have to do something about it themselves, I quit telling the same things over and over again …
P/s: this bunch doesn’t have enough vocabulary despite having learned the language for almost 13 bl**dy years!!!! Almost everything that is not good, is bad … aren’t there any other vocab for BAD???!!!

Marking (3rd seating)
530pm – 750pm
I started with the word ‘bad’ again... it could be found just every where … am tired of reading that word … through with 3, my headache came back .. I am really sick of reading essays that are written using ‘kepala lutut’ instead of the ‘kepala’ the place where the brain is supposed to be... these students were writing for the sake of writing … it as though they haven’t seen this language in their live .. it seems that they are writing in an alien language … urrghh … don’t think will give them good marks … they are very lazy when it comes to reading, that’s why the essays s*ck!!!!!!
I wish I could just ignore the essays, let them write the way they want it to be, but I could, my conscience is killing me, it was the conscience that keeps me going... oh God, give me strength to finish the sh*tty job!!!!  (am depressed!!!)
2 more to complete this seating... in and out it was just reading the same boring and brain-torturing essays. The only difference was the name of the writer, in other aspects they are all the same, the main idea is killing my brain cells … urrghhh … can I kill them??!! Marking (4th seating – the final one! YES!!) 830pm – 1000pm
Despite being much traumatized with the essays, I forced myself to complete the last five, I don’t want to drag it till Sunday, don’t want to wake up Monday in a very foul mood! GOD, help me finish this!!
May Allah pay them well for their laziness and for torturing my brain …

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