Monday, February 14, 2022

 Assalaamu'alaikum. Alhamdulillah a new day has come. Although sleepy and tired, welcoming and going into a new day is always refreshing. Even if this morning was opened by pitter-patter rain, the sense of the coming up new hopes is motivating.

This morning was quite gloomy and I felt like want to pull my blanket back and cover my body with it, but my brain pushed me to not to do that. Even worse, my feeling seduced me with sleepiness after last night's sleepless moment as my wife and I needed to take care of our crying baby due to the effect of DPT vaccine. So, the story began yesterday where our baby needed to get two vaccines. The first one (polio) was shot at her right thigh and the second one (DPT) on the left thigh. The DPT is said to give more painful side effects than polio. Therefore last night our baby kept crying for hours. Nothing we could do but held her, fed her, or calmed her down until she got tired and went to sleep. I thought it was going to be a totally sleepless night, but it actually wasn't. By the time it was around 12.00, our baby was asleep so then we had time to sleep. 

This morning I felt sleepy, and it was raining outside. Perfect time to get back to sleep. However, considering that I have responsibilities, my mind said I needed to wake up, Sholat Subuh, and get ready for work. Even the gloomy morning didn't really affect me in terms of productivity. I feel like I did a lot of things today. Alhamdulillah. Thanks Allah. 

Today is the start of another limited face-to-face learning week, grade 4, my class, has the turn to have online today. Therefore, it was not really rush this morning. I even had some time to have breakfast and had a chit-chat with Ms. Ana. After the chill time, I opened materials for morning meeting, and checked out the Weekly Plan. I edited an activity (Art) as Miss Nilna, the teacher, asked for me to have another project for the students). After editing, I printed out a copy so that I can see it anytime.

After printing the weekly plan I opened zoom and welcome students who joined early. As usual we had a talk about their condition, the weather, or any issue coming up on the weekend. And I just remembered one thing. My 

Alhamdulillah, today all classes went smoothly. Although I was a little bit unprepared, I still could handle this. In Social Studies students could make a mind map about 'Factors Affecting Indonesian Diversity'. At the break time, I had time to speak heart-to-heart to talk about his English assignment which was detected copying from the internet and using inappropriate words. Then, Tilawati also went well. I could manage to use the Calendar Media which I usually never did. Then, I could also manage to handle Alvaro who was usually left behind in Tilawati. 

After school, I went down right away and had lunch with 'sayur asem' and 'bandeng' and a little sambal. After that I went upstairs to do sholat Dzuhur jama'ah and then went back to class to finish some administration stuff, including reregistering for the Fasilitasi. After that, Mr. Rizka asked me to handle English Matrix of grades 4 & 5. Although wasn't expected I tried my best to manage to find the appropriate materials according to the unfinished Termly Plan. Alhamdulillah we could talk about past tense and past events with the simple material I found on twinkl.com and students' own experiences. 

Once the work hour was done, I texted my sister Mba Warti asking about the latest condition of my father. So last night it was only Mas Jae who waited on and took care of him. And he went out of control taking off the 'infus'. Mba Warti said that he did it uncontrollably. I think it was because he was so stressed about his condition. He wanted to get recovered very soon but he didn't. He needs someone to calm him down. Hopefully there will be someone to do that soon. Aamiin. Alfaatihah to my father.

That's all for today. Hope everything would get better soon. Aamiin. Wassalaamu'alaikum.