The Chronicles of "The Practicum" - The Mess

JULY the 3rd

yeah,what a mess

Oh yeah, it was indeed a mess~ We had our Sukantara this morning till noon when we had to stop due to the heavy rain. But that wasn't 'the mess' I'm talking about. 


1st of all, the Sukantara was not expected to take place today but as the date of the Sports Day has been changed to this Thursday (instead of next Sunday), the Sukantara date automatically has to be changed as well. So there we were, so busy preparing the field and the sports equipment with the tali-tali and khemah-khemah and macam-macam-at the very last minute. Now let me tell you a story about the two innocent teacher trainees.. ;P


Students were all gathered at the dataran, 670 all of them (maybe more), but they were not allowed to go to the field first, not before all the teachers completed their jobs there at the field. So there was this one teacher, held the mic to control the students. Apparently, he had to go to the field as well. When there were some other teachers there, he walked towards us (my partner and I) and handed me the mic saying,


"Ha, awak buat la apa-apa aktiviti dengan diorang ni, dah bising sangat ni, buat la aktiviti spelling bee ke, ape ke, nak nyanyi ke, buat je ape2, CONTROL THE STUDENTS"


I was like... "Ha??" and I forgot the mic was still on, so the whole school could hear me in my surprised tone tuh. Great. 


As this thing came sooo suddenly-unexpectedly on the spot-spontaneous-or whatever words you wanna use, I wasn't even prepared to do 'something' with more than 670 students from year 1 to year 6 sitting "actively" in front of me and it sounded like a zoo or fun fair  something. Not to mention, all the teachers' eyes were on us, blinking with full of hope, sparkling, waiting curiously and eagerly of what we were gonna do (ok I exaggerated for the sparkling part) . I was so blurrr of what to do as we did not expect this (this is only our 2nd day of practicum! Malu pun tak hilang lagi dengan cikgu-cikgu lain kot~). My partner and I looked at each other. We had no idea. Suddenly all the theories, skills that we have learned and experienced in previous schools and classrooms were all gone by the wind. These kids are...soooo... kids! (of course!)


Given the 'freedom' to do whatever we wanna do with the children, still, we were numb in front of them. Seriously we got to discuss quickly and come out with 'something' for the kids. So we took like 2 minutes to 'push' ourselves to think of something but nothing came out-guess we were too shocked and embarrassed maybe. (we still "have" time to discuss when all the other students have gone wild and crazy behind us!).


Now it really sounds like a zoo. No. More like a war, I think. Somebody might have been killed by now. Oh Rabb.. Help us. I know I HAVE to make them stop and listen to me. Couldn't think of anything else to calm them down, I did some TPR (Total Physical Response) with them-just to make them stop the shouting,cheering,laughing,crying and whatnot. 


"Siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu, angkat tangan kanan"
Some of them started to listen and did the action. 
"Siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu, angkat siku kiri"
More listened and stopped talking and followed their friends to do the action.
"Ehh,cikgu tak suruh turunkan tangan kanan lagi pun?"
"Ok, siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu,turunkan dua-dua tangan"
"Siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu, picit hidung dia, picit kuat-kuat"
Pinching their own noses and laughing at each other.
"Siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu, jerit HORRAAYYY!"
"Siapa dapat dengar suara cikgu, letak ibu jari atas dahi"


Bla..Bla..Bla..


And lastly I asked them to put their fingers on their lips.


Finally, there was silence.. 








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-For a minute, unfortunately. Ha.......  Ha......   Ha....~


And then I didn't know what to do.. (T_T)


We took the teacher's suggestion to do some spelling bees and we continued with game apa name tah, main serang-serang kumpulan lain dengan bom mulut. (I used to conduct this game as a faci during the orientation week for the juniors and not forgotten, untuk aktiviti-aktiviti adik-adik dalam program. 


As we continued one particular activity with another activity, we often 'lost' and 'paused' to think and discuss what would the next activity be, and that was when the students started to go crazy again (what do I expect from kids? huhu)..


Well, that's basically "the mess" I'm talking about. For not being 'ready'.


Talking about the readiness, lots of events happened lately to me got something to do with the readiness especially for things that are unexpected. Expect the unexpected, yes I know. 

Are youuu...??

Semalam tak expect kene berucap atas stage, hari ni tak expect kena manage almost 700 students for 1 hour not knowing exactly what to do, last week tetibe kene present isk dengan 24 hours notice dan dalam masa yang sama kena handle benda lain juga. So mula naik sem baru ni, sangat bersyukur kerana rasa Allah jadikan saya zombie Dia balik. =) Cumanya berharap moga semua amal itu kerana Allah semata dan moga Allah redha dan terima amal-amal kita agar ia tak disia-siakan menjadi debu di akhirat kelak.


Come to think of it, this reminds me of one ayat in surah Ali-Imran, ayat 200. 


" Hai orang-orang beriman, bersabarlah kamu dan kuatkanlah kesabaranmu dan tetaplah bersiap siaga dan bertakwalah kepada Allah agar kamu beruntung". 


Allah menyeru orang yang beriman dalam ayat ni agar punya ciri berikut:


1st: Bersabar.
2nd: Dah la bersabar, KUATKANLAH lagi kesabaran pulak tuh~
3rd: TETAPLAH BERSIAP SIAGA
4th: Bertaqwalah pada Allah.


See? Allah pun dah cakap awal-awal lagi supaya orang islam, orang yg beriman, sentiasa bersiap sedia sebenarnya. Tak kiralah dari segi perang atau apa-apa jihad sekalipun. Pokoknya, harus bersiap sedia. Kalau dah memang sediakan diri selalu, tak ada lah last minit baru nak study isk nak sampaikan pada adik-adik. Walaupun tajuk expert kita mungkin adalah IPK, SH atau SJ, tak bermakna bahan itu saja yang kita hadam. Semua pun kena hadam. Bersedia. 


Teringat kata-kata seorang murabbi kesayangan kami, katanya pada kami, kalau boleh, berus gigi, ubat gigi tu sentiasa dalam plastik tersedia, kalau orang panggil je untuk ke mana-mana, kena bagi daurah, diperlukan di mana-mana atau ada seruan dakwah di mana-mana tiba-tiba, kita boleh terus capai plastik toiletries tu dan terus berangkat! WAHH!


Hebat bukan? Betapa murabbi kami ingin mendidik kami untuk kesediaan dan pengorbanan demi kerana agama Allah ini. Baiklah,ustaz. Kami pahammmm....


Jadi, mana mungkin kita rasa kita agak free. Agak tak paham bila dengar sesetengah akhwat berdialog rasa macam tak ada kerja, rasa ada je masa free and sometimes macam tak tahu jugak nak buat apa. 


Nasib la Allah memang dah takdirkan setiap orang punya waktu 24 jam setiap orang. Kalau tak, rasa macam nak mintak masa dari orang lain sikit. But on a second thought, tak jugak sebenarnya. Memang Allah dah susun cantikkk amattt sebenarnya. Kalaulah para daie ni boleh mintak masa dari orang lain sikit, mungkin masa yang available tu akan menjerumuskan para duat ni pada benda-benda yang remeh sedangkan kekangan masa yang wujud itulah yang mentarbiyyah kita erti pengorbanan, mujahadah, keseriusan dalam berDnT dan sebagainya. 


Kerana kita tahu kita tak punya banyak waktu untuk dibazirkan lah kita jadi sangat serius dengan kerja dakwah kita, kita jadi proaktif kerana takut lambatnya kita bergerak akan melambatkan keretapi dakwah ini. Kita jadi rajin untuk setelkan kerja-kerja duniawi kita tanpa bertangguh terlalu lama kerana kita tak mahu bebanan duniawi (macam kerja, assignment, study, urusan rumah tangga) menggangu gugat fokus kita terhadap kerja-kerja dakwah dan tarbiyyah kita. Kerana kita mahu masa yang kita spend untuk kerja dakwah kita adalah masa yang berkualiti, bukan hanya sisa masa kita lepas seharian berpenat lelah dengan duniawi!


Konklusinya, kita memang kena bersedia sentiasa macam Allah cakap dalam ayat 200 surah Ali-Imran tu, dan jadilah daie proaktif. Peace. (^^)