Here am I…

Melissa got her what-they-call “interim posting” to this school…

– SK Sungai Sepiring near Selangau town, around 1½ hours by road from Sibu.

We drove there for her to report for duty last Monday and when we arrived, we stopped first at the Education Office in the town itself…

The Education Officer was not around…

…but Melissa managed to meet the lady in charge and signed in…

…as an indication that she had reported.

I’m not too sure what this interim thing is – it seems that there are no vacancies available resulting from the current situation where people are retiring at 60 so they have come up with something like this just so there will not be a whole lot of fresh graduates unemployed…which may mean that one may be moved to a school where there is a vacancy as and when the need arises.

I certainly hope that Melissa can stay in this school though as it isn’t far from home and the students look so cute and lovable…

We walked around the school and saw that they were all so very well-behaved in the classrooms during the lessons – not like the ones in the towns and cities…and I’m pretty sure there is none of the problem of demanding and difficult (and vicious) parents either at places like this unlike those urban ones.

Of course, kids are kids so one should expect to see a few monkeys around…

LOL!!! These are usually playful but quite harmless…and if you can win them over, you can twist them around your finger, no problem at all.

This is the admin block and staff room…

…and here, you can see a few of the teachers’ quarters.

There are not enough to go round at the moment so Melissa would have to share with her colleagues…probably until the new ones – those concrete ones at the back – are given the stamp of approval by the authorities concerned and are available for occupancy.

We got to meet the Headmaster and some of the teachers in the school and they were all so very nice and friendly and it was the same with those at the office whom we met earlier. Perhaps this is one thing about small places – people are a whole lot more pleasant and very much nicer.

Well, that certainly was  a good start and we certainly hope and pray that Melissa will love working and staying there in the years to come. She’ll be home on weekends and during the holidays, of course…