257: New normal

Now life has reverted to normal. Well, not actually the normal we used to before the pandemics, though. New normal, that is the phrase.

I still go out in the morning to go to school at the same time, around 6:40 am. But the road are clearer since most students haven't gone back to school yet (only the form 5-ers). When we reach school, temperature is taken at the school gate and recorded daily. Any temperature above 37.5 won't be allowed to enter. But three weeks in, no such cases are heard yet in my school.

Just early this year I felt so relieved because I didn't have to teach form 5, I alternate with another teacher. So this year is my turn taking the new KSSM batch, the form 4. New syllabus, I was excited. The last batch I taught which was also the first batch I taught for form 4 and 5 Physics received their SPM result with all passes. Alhamdulillah. Then coronavirus happened. MCO started just as the half-semester break started.

Around early June we learned that only the form 5 would be allowed to go to school at the first phase of school opening. Ah, I was needed to teach form 5 again. But I wasn't complaining. In this phase in life, where everything is so uncertain and out of our initial plan and so far away from expectations, we need to learn to be positive, taking in everything as a long journey of building ourselves. After all, I've been missing teaching students in class. Online learning has its perk but it can never compete to teaching face to face. I'll take it!