Looking for a nice work place

Last Monday, the news was that our usual staff meeting will only last one hour, but then after that we have to go on a staff outing sort of thingy on chartered buses. It felt as if there's no difference for us in the sense that we'll still leave school at 6pm.

But then when we got up the bus all together, it turned out that I actually enjoyed the experience, of having colleagues laughing and joking about every small thing. We also had a few teachers who went up to the mike on the bus to share some of their past stories. At the end of the trip we all went to an eatery and had tea break together. There was food and talk and it actually made me quite happy even though I was in a terrible and irritable mood that day for no good reason at all.

Now if only my school will throw up nice surprises to us once in a while to make everyone happy like this. All too often, things are piled up onto us, and all of us are juggling tasks big and small day in and out, and the things we need to do are neverending. The school leaders are also wont to throw us unpleasant surprises such as cancelling a forecasted PE event which a colleague of mine had planned nicely, and nearly threatening to do the same for my CCA's camp this March. Even staff welfare activities seems like a drag when people have to specially make time for it.

I'm actually thinking of how I can perhaps try to make the office a nicer place for the other staff once in a while...