Day 21- Internal Audit time!
The day started with a big meeting and ended with another big one... with some other meetings interspersed in between!
What is it with adults and meetings? I'd love to discuss things efficiently like children do.. over the canteen food (am sure it makes school canteen food more palatable!), over a game of soccer or 'throw the hat', over the teacher's lectures, in the bus lines and best of all.... in the toilets!!! All major discussion happen in these areas and what more, children do come up with absolutely solid conclusions or plan of actions from here! Seriously!
Anyway, back to the meetings...
So I had this internal audit conducted on my department. I despise audits. Don't know anyone who loves them! The audit meant to last for two hours went on to four. A frenzied teacher left an equally frenzied student in my office to regain her sense of balance and peace in the classroom. Incomplete projects worried me and unnecessary ones piled on! The to-do list extended the double sided A-3 sheet. And then came the final grit on the icing....
A prospective parent said that his child's current school teacher said that international school children were unruly and had no academic rigour and he wondered if it was true! (Why pray are you even bothering to look at the international schools then?) What was he expecting me to say?
It made sense to lose the plot.......... and I was toying with the idea of writing a response to this prospective client, exactly as my heart said it........
....Suddenly in walked a teacher, with a cup of Starbucks in her hand. I looked at it wistfully and then readied myself to solve a situation. Teachers usually visit me when there is a situation that needs sorting out or to share students' work samples. A Starbucks cup couldn't have been a sample so it had to be a situation! Or so I thought!
Turned out that the Starbucks cuppa was for me, ordered by another teacher and ferried by this one to help me tide over the day. It was the Soy Milk Chai Tea Latte......my favourite cuppa on rainy days!
I was happily stupefied! Someone actually bothered to think of me, remembered my favourite order, ordered and bought the order and sent it over to me and someone ferried it for me. How generous?! These are folks that I pile work on, throw surprise visits on and ask for the heaven and the moon along with a sprinkling of few stars of.......
....... and they bring me a Starbucks! No transactions, no favours, just a happy gesture!
Gratitude reigns and makes me happy.
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