I finally decided on which school's offer to take up for the Teacher's Aide Programme. There were 2 schools that seemed really keen on working with me, I met with one last Thursday and the other today.

Let's call the first school A and the 2nd B.

A definitely has a major plus point being near the train station, and is probably a better school academically speaking. It seems to have more facilities and teachers. It's more focused on what it wants but I felt kind of awkward during the interview. I wasn't sure if I could do what they were looking for. I mean I can do it on my own, I'm not so sure how I'm going to prevent a bunch of adventurous and mischievous 14 year olds from trying to ingest E. coli. (o.O) Oh and did I mention that A is affiliated with a certain religion, one whose believers has made numerous attempts to belittle my beliefs? Not that I have anything against the religion and the bulk of its believers, but I'm not too sure how I'm going to take it if I keep hearing references to the religion when I'm working. I might develop some sorta personality disorder trying to keep my atheistic tendencies away from them because I don't believe that I should be telling people not to believe just as how they shouldn't have the right to tell me to believe.

B is more out of the way, takes me about 15 minutes longer to get there, nowhere near a train station, has very limited bus services plying the area. BUT it is just opposite one of the greatest hawker centres in the country (LOL!). Great food beckons just by working there. The people there are nicer, a whole lot less intimidating than the ones I met in A (well I met 2, one was ok, the other was a little scary and pushy). Moreover, B seems to need the help, the teacher was saying how it was hard to keep an eye on all 40 plus students in the lab with only one teacher around. A on the other hand, seems to have more biology teachers. Not to mention they(A) admitted to only having 2 biology classes, both of which aren't full biology classes, so they have around 30 to 40 students in a cohort taking biology. B seems to have around double that amount.

So yup, I finally chose B. Needless to say, A didn't sound too happy. =S