Teaching Profession

I hate it. I really reaaalllllyyyy despise it. >.<  Oh. I don't mean teaching profession the profession. I meant teaching profession the subject.
Yes, I know it's pretty strange to study the subject Teaching Profession when I'm in the teaching profession.
But I do.

Paper was over and done with. TODAY. *cheers*
And boy, am I relieved. Relieved is an understatement.
I have been frustrated studying for a subject before. I have struggled with a subject so bad I wanted to give up.

But never, NEVER as it was with Teaching Profession - the subject.


First pain-in-the-butt fact:


Teaching Profession - the subject - is taught in English. Finals was in English. Text book given in MALAY. Bahasa Malaysia. Our beloved national language. 
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against our national language. Honest. But come onnnnnn. Finals in English, text in Malay?? wth. Can't they even be consistent? Uniform? If you're gonna have the text book in Malay, then have the finals in Malay. If it has to be done in English cos we're doing English, then provide us with a freakin' ENGLISH text book!!!
They seriously, honestly expect us to spontaneously translate everything into English as we read the freakin' thing? Ish.


You know what I can't understand? We're certainly not the first batch of TESL students to come along. This means that all the previous batches of seniors have been suffering translating the text as well. Did it NEVER OCCUR to the lecturers to actually find a decent text book in ENGLISH???!! I know la, our own lecturers wrote the text book, published by our own UKM, that's why in Malay. But the text itself sounded almost 70% English anyway. Which leads to:


Second pain-in-the-butt fact:


There were soooooooooooooooo many NEW Malay words that I never knew existed in our beloved national language. But somehow, somehow, my knowledge of ENGLISH vocabulary kinda helped me. I mean, words like konsepsi and persepsi, we're all used to it by now. The initial shock at the almost 100% similarity to their respective English counterparts have already blown over. But THESE are a class of their own. I'll show you what I mean. Some words I discovered (and learned existed) in my Teaching Profession text book:

didiskusikan (whatever happened to dibincangkan??)
menginterpretasi
signifikan and
kesignifikanan
berkolaborasi
refleksi
konstruktif
menjustifikasikan
korelasi
provokasi
autoritarian
kondusif
opsyen (what about pilihan?)
disruptif
kefleksibelan
differensiasi
komited
sofistikated
ekspektasi
keintelektualan
produktif
menginternalisasikan
masteri
resos (yes, it really IS resource)
literatur (and yes, it's literature. Only missing the 'e')
eksplisit
staf
kompetensi
aisbeg (as in iceberg!)
personel (I think they meant personal, or peribadi)
deskripsi

and my favourite:

skedul (It's schedule. I'm totally 100% serious. I have proof. OMG right???!!)




Hilarious, I know.
But jokes aside, WTH. What on earth is becoming of our national language????!!!
I rasa malu, tau?

Now, with annoying words like that popping up every few pages, how can anyone concentrate??
Especially when I'm studying English.
Ugh.
The audacity!! Beh tahan. >.<  


So imagine, just imagine, the TORTURE of studying that? Of having to read that, in a Malay that is berbelit-belit, the kind where after reading a whole page, I had no idea what the author was getting at. And then see words like that. And after that, translate EVERYTHING, terms and all, into English. To MEMORIZE.

OMG.

I'm sure you understand why I said that feeling relieved after that paper is an understatement. >.< Which is also why I am contemplating burning this particular text book to ashes just so I will not have to see it again. EVER. But with Earth Hour and Earth Day and all, I might just sell it to recycling. Earn something there. :) 


Or. As someone suggested, sell the text book to my college's cafe mak cik to use to bungkus nasi lemak. Then, maybe those eating the nasi lemak can be blessed with the knowledge of when the Education Act 1996 was approved in Parliament, or the implications of the National Education Philosophy on Teacher Education in Malaysia. *snore*

Hey, it's also giving back to the community. Plus, it's eco-friendly. XD


So, guess what I did to treat myself after that STUPID (pardon my frankness) paper?

I did French manicures!!!
muahahahahhahaaaa
Don't they look nice??? *beams*
I did them all by meself too!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh

I feel sooo much better now. :)