What am I doing this Sunday?

I am supposed to meet up with my friends today because one friend just came back from overseas for this weekend. However, this weekend is especially tough for me.

In this coming week, I still have 2 more lectures on Thermochemistry/Thermodynamics. We still have not even covered Born-Haber Cycle yet, which is the most important section in Thermochemistry. I wonder how the lecture would be conducted. I think the students would wonder why this lecture topic seems fast for all 3 lecture groups. This is because a 6 hr lecture has been shrunk to a 5 hr lecture. I believe most students did not even read the notes at home, but they would really need to read up more on their own as some examples would be posted in their msg board. Students should not rely too much on teachers as they themselves are supposed to be responsible for their own learning.

Other than that, I still have to conduct a session with the Olympiad Training students on THERMODYNAMICS. Well, if it is on other topics like equilibrium or organic chemistry, i.e. those topics that I like, I would not have any problems with it. But this topic is quite alien to me as the last time I touch is in my 2nd year of uni, which is quite distant from now. I have to prepare questions for these students to attempt. Hopefully, students do not ask so many questions that I could not answer on the spot that I become embarrassed. Olympiad leh! Why I suddenly feel that I am unable to handle them? I used to take part in the same competition and attained excellent results. We have to see what this coming Tuesday will become.

I still have 4 stacks of experiment reports to mark. Of those, one of them is extremely crucial. Too bad, I have forgotten to bring back a red pen, thus I cannot mark this weekend. Talking about red pens, I vividly remember a dream I had last night about I lost all the red pens in the school. I tried hunting up and down for them but to no avail. How scary can it be????!!!!! LOL!!!

Actually, today got shooting finals for my students in the shooting club, previously known as air rifle club before the addition of air pistols. If not for all of these, I might go down and have some chat with them.

Next week, other than all these lectures, I still have to complete the tutorial on Chemical Bonding with all my 3 classes to prepare them for the Class test which is also conducted this week. For 2 classes, I have 2 hr of tutorial with them, so I should not have any problems. But there is one class that has to attempt VA8 because of SPA that is brought forward due to student council investiture.

People might wonder why do I need to conduct a class test if I am unable to complete the tutorial. The reason is simple. Every term, I am supposed to conduct 2 class tests. For term 1, I have accomplished it. For term 2, this is my 2nd class test. This coming week is week no 6. Week 7 has chem lecture test, week 8 - I have course for 3 days + SPA for 1 class, week 9 - I have reservists for the entire week, week 10 - I need to complete Thermochem tutorial. Where got time for another class test!!!

I hope people understand my predicament. Enough of pouring my woes on this blog. I have realised that this blog has become my avenue of releasing stress. Next time, I may talk about something more interesting.