In the past week, along with something like 119 other unsuspecting Year 5, I was recruited into the Gifted Education Branch as a temporary clerk. This was my first real job, and I sure hope my working life is nothing like the first taste that I got at Ministry of Education.
Actually, it wasn’t all that bad, I exaggerate greatly under some sort of truth bending creative license. While the tasks that we were given were tedious, and involved a lot patience, I had fun and learned a bit of something here and there. The company was pretty good too, it was pretty fun hanging out with my team mates, especially Gideon, Hadi, Clifton, Bobbie and Daryl.
What did we do? Well, going into specifics would be inviting much flak from the Ministry, the school and quite possibly (if history is anything to go by) the law. The thing is, working for the GE Branch, somewhat resembles working for a clandestine government department like the CIA. We were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, to avoid looking at certain classified things as we carried out certain classified tasks, to not leak any information to parties that might want it, to always be vigilant and the list goes on. They even had cellophane tape that was printed with “Gifted Education Branch Secret” and the state crest, which was used to seal the can’t-be-named-documents.As you can tell, a lot of cloak and dagger; give us each a hand gun, a badge and mirror shades and we’re the secret service.
Today, I went cycling for the second time with ANZA, which is an organization of expats from Australia and New Zealand. They’re a pretty nice bunch, and have quite a few people who like me are not from Down Under or Middle Earth. After the first 12 km, it started raining, lightly at first, then really hard. Visibility was bad and it didn’t help that my contact lens don’t agree with the rain and that dirt was constantly sprayed into my face by the wheel in front of me. By God’s grace, I eventually arrived in school, very wet and dirty but in one piece. Had noodles across the road at Wah Chee, which by the way is really great, before waiting for my mom to pick me up.
I have at this point run out steam, although I have loads more to talk about and will hence end here.
