{"id":5019,"date":"2012-01-05T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/first-day-stories-saya-nak-jadi-budak-baik\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T09:23:26","slug":"first-day-stories-saya-nak-jadi-budak-baik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/first-day-stories-saya-nak-jadi-budak-baik\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day Stories: \u201cSaya nak jadi budak baik.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst of all, contrary to the impression we\u2019d received earlier, students in class were eager to engage and participate! I\u2019d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.teachformalaysia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pink-backpack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-63\" title=\"pink backpack\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.teachformalaysia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/pink-backpack.jpg?resize=220%2C300\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>actually expected them to be rebellious, but generally that wasn\u2019t the case at all. Of course, some students immediately made an impression \u2013 there was M., a boy with a pink school bag from the class next door who begged me to teach his class to sing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cikgu, masuk kelas kitorang ajar nyanyi cikgu?<em>\u2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I told him there was already a teacher in his class and that he should get back inside. He refused to budge, so I asked, out of curiosity: \u2018Why do you have a pink bag?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cikgu, saya dah Tingkatan 5, nak jadi budak baik. Untuk saya warna pink ni warna baik. Ajarlah kitorang menyanyi, cikgu. Saya boleh serious, cikgu. Nak ubah jadi baik.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t get to talk to him as much as I\u2019d have liked to because a fierce teacher came by scolding the boys along the corridor, and M. went back into his class. Later, we heard a student excitedly telling his mother what we\u2019d done in class.<\/p>\n<p>I believe there is so much potential in the students I met today. They just may not have had the right amount of stimulation and encouragement! Feeling good for how much we can do in this school, fingers crossed.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst of all, contrary to the impression we\u2019d received earlier, students in class were eager to engage and participate! I\u2019d\u00a0actually expected them to be rebellious, but generally that wasn\u2019t the&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,113],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fellow","7":"category-movement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachformalaysia.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}