Today has been a very busy day for us in school as we have been visited by our own Minister. We were only told yesterday morning that the Minister will visit our school and we felt that it wasn't long ago that he visited our school.. if I'm not mistaken, it was in 2006. Well, yesterday was really hectic as we had to make preparations for the itinerary of the visit, all the necessary information to be shared to students, moreover, today is a CCA Sports for all students... Everybody will be busy with sports activities and wouldn't expect any visits by the officials from the Ministry.
A contact time was conducted by our newly appointed Deputy Principal who is still new to our school and the admin team had to prepare a lot of things such as giving information to all staffs about the visit, call all heads of departments and heads of units for an urgent meeting regarding all the necessary things that needed to be prepared. Yesterday afternoon I had to cancel my Afternoon class for Mathematics and Additional Mathematics as I was invited to give a briefing and facilitate a workshop in one of the primary school in KB about the results of the NSSCME for that particular school. I didn't get the chance to help out in school about the visit. The workshop finished at 4.20 p.m. and I had to rush back to school to see what's going on.
I arrived in school at 4.30 p.m. sharp and went to my desk. The deputy principal told me that I don't have to prepare the programme as they have prepared it while I was away and they only need me to prepare the exam results analysis for the BGCE O Level, PMB and NSSCME. And one more thing I was told that I had to be the emcee for the visit.. Which really made me startled.. Oh gosh.. what will I say to the Minister?? All sorts of questions in my mind but never mind.. I had to go through all of this. I had to be patience and stay calm.
I stayed in school to prepare the exam analysis and also the NSSCME reports for our school.. but I didn't have the time to prepare my scripts.. until about 7.00 p.m. where only the Principal and myself were still in school. It was dark and we didn't realize the time had passed... We left school at 7.00 p.m.
I went back home and took my shower.. and then I started to think about my scripts.. well, I hadn't got time to do it earlier.. at about 8.00 p.m. I began my first sentence.... I had to look for the correct names for the officers and I had to ask my mom where she had kept all the programmes that I have been collecting for the past 10 years or so from invitations and others.. She told me where there were and I found it.. Alhamdulillah.. Thanks to my beloved Mom.. :) Love her so much...
I got so eager to write up the scripts with all the given info's and everything that I needed. Finally I got the drafts ready to be shown to the Principal for approval.. Quite nervous as I don't have any idea who will be present today.. Hmm...
After waiting for about 20 minutes in the conference room, the guests arrived and I started the event with the scripts that have been edited and approved by the higher authorities. Alhamdulillah, everything went well and that was for me one of the biggest challenge for me, i.e. to overcome my fears to speak in public... well, there'll be another one next week.. I've just received the invitation this morning from the HRD.. Insyallah.. Then followed by the conference that I'll be presenting a joint paper with my former UBD supervisor... that will be another challenge for me... Hopefully, I can prepare myself with all sorts of answers that will help me to overcome my 'nervousness'...