Recently I have been analyzing the site traffic. Just started a couple of weeks ago. This site now has a readership of..... wait for it.....
110 Absolute Unique Visitors. And Counting.
Meaning that there are 110 individual readers so far! :D And I thought Yong Jian was bluffing when he said that everyone reads this blog :P
So here’s a humungous THANK YOU to everyone! :D
So where have I been the whole week? Some people might already know. I’ve been at S/NCO course. I think I shall have an Out of Office notice at the top of the page the next time I vanish for extended periods of time :)
Ever wondered what hell is like? S/NCO course comes damn close.
Everyone at Home Team Academy is freaking mean.
Never felt so close to breaking point.
Sierra’s platoon commander and assistant platoon commanders were slightly nicer (there are 4 platoons, Sierra, November, Charlie, Oscar). I’m in Sierra :)
Monday was a lot of leadership lectures. They were done by Lieutenant Hozefa. They were awesome! :D
Tuesday morning was Civil Defence knowledge lecture and test. Quite a lot of people failed the test, so they have to retake. I did mine in March, so I kinda slept during the test time, but I still had to sit in for the lecture. I just fell asleep on my hands. Waking up freaking early just to get to HTA on time. Its at Boon Lay, I live at east coast.
Then the whole afternoon was footdrills. All the way until 6 pm. Absolutely horrible. Then dinner and then more lectures and night lessons. In the end I got home at about 11 pm.
Wednesday was lessons on Method of Instruction. Basically how to teach.
Thursday was assessment day. MOI and footdrill assessment. For MOI you have to give a 10 min lessons. Mine went quite well I think. Completely different from my epic disaster lesson on knots and lines during year 1 camp. Footdrill assesment was also an epic disaster. They decided to re-assess anyone with footdrill silver. And in the end they couldn’t finish assessing everyone for footdrill gold :(
Friday was scenario based learning assessment. It was quite fun :) Then passing out ceremony :)
What we learn we might forget, but the friendships that we made will last forever :)
So now ACS (I) NCDCC has its new team of S/NCOs :D
I think the first thing we need to do is to fix the last-minute culture and disastrous admin. Seriously, impromptu lesson plans are just bad. Lieutenant Hozefa was so right about the importance of planning in advance. We have to have a schedule and a plan.
On the way home on the last day, I took the MRT with a fellow S/NCO. Who is also a friend. We had a discussion. And he told me all the reasons why we would never be able to make a difference. And I told him all the reasons why we could.
I mean seriously, if we leave at the end of our 1 year term, and nothing has changed for the better, what’s the point of us being there? What would have been the point of our taking this course?
To that friend.....
All I ask is that you give it just one more thought.
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