Week 1: Monday. We arrived at the school at 7.00 am. While we’re waiting for other fellow trainees, we met some of the permanent teachers and get to know with them. It was an exciting moment as that was the first day we received our first greet from the students who passed us by. Before we entered to the staff room, we met Pn.Zanariah, the school’s Senior Assistant in her office for a small briefing. She explained about the attendance of the trainees, the ethics as a teacher and some of the student’s behaviors that we would expected in the classroom. Then she took us to the staff room, where we supposed to be seated at. We were being placed at the empty cubicle next to the Head of Kemahiran Hidup Bersepadu (KHB) Department, Pn. Nik Zainab and Pn. Liza Dahlia, the Head of English Department. The cubicle was spacious and can be occupied by three (3) people at the same time. It was an air-conditioned room that held up to 40 teachers. For the first day in the school, we were given the relief’s classes. I got three classes to relief; Form 5 Omega, Form 4 Zeta and Form 4 Epsilon. It was a bit tense as I was given the upper secondary classes to relief for the first time. Before we entered the classes, we’re being advised by Pn Zanariah that the first thing that we need to aware was showing the straight and strict face. The first impression determines how the students will go to give feedback. It is advised that the teacher must give the straight but strict look so that the student pays respect and will not easily judge as an approachable teacher. We were given the timetable and the list of the classes along with the location as our guidance. My first relief class, Form 5 Omega was a talkative yet controllable. I kept to my mind that the upper secondary should be treated less strict and I told them politely for not making too much noise. As I expected, some of the students approached me and asked me the translation of the word ‘suffer’ in Bahasa Malaysia. It gives me the impression that mostly the students in that class possess very good English. After that the second student came to the desk and asked me about the format of the Bahasa Melayu debate. I was a bit confused with the debate format with the normal composition as I left this subject (BM) quite a long time. It reminds me that being a teacher we must be prepared with varieties of knowledge, not only English but other subjects as well. For the first time, I managed to control the class and they were behaving well. My second relief class was Form 4 Zeta. I was being told by other teacher about this class. This class is a bit troublesome where some of the students love to loiter at the toilet, walk around the school compound and never entered the class. As I expected, after recess, I entered the class and found that only four students were sitting there. I told to myself that this is the time for me to show my strictness. I asked one of the students in that class to find his friend and urge them to come back. He managed to bring back half of them. While the classroom was a bit noisy and I tried to calm the rest of them, one of the discipline teachers came to the class and scolded the students from the back of the class. All of the students went silent. Lucky that En.Saiful came to ‘calm’ the students and told me to write the misbehave student’s name if happen they did any offends in the class. I managed to silent them for 10 minutes before I went to the next class. Thank God that I didn’t relief the class for double periods. I guess that I need to be emotionally prepared if happen I go to relief that class in the future. The next stop was Form 4 Epsilon. This time I entered to the smartest class of Form 4. I didn’t have much trouble in the class as the students were all well-mannered and were doing the revision. For the rest of double periods, I sat peacefully and browsed the Curriculum Specifications and made drafts for my first lesson plan. The first day in school wasn’t that bad. We managed to get through the mixed-behavior students and get to know with some of the teachers.Tuesday. As usual we’re given some relief classes as a lot of teachers went to courses for a few days. I found that, by giving the relief classes, I can get to know the students mixed-behavior and how we cope with it. For the second day I relief the upper secondary classes, but so far they’re controllable. On the second day I relief Form 4 Sigma and Form 5 Lambda. I’ve learned that the Form 4 students are a bit rebellious while the Form 5, as expected, are well-behave and matured. Form 4 Sigma is known as a sleepy head as most of the students were sleeping. It’s a good thing as they were all silent. However some of the students were going overboard as they arranged the chairs and slept soundly as if they were sleeping on the nice, cozy sofa. At this time, I didn’t tolerate with them. I asked them to rearrange the chairs back to the original position and warned them for not doing so again. They obeyed my warning but then continued their sleep again.For the whole week we just relieved the classes. At the same time, we surveyed the school compound, especially the location of the classes, laboratory, library, access room, media room, canteen and workshops.