Leahs Cafe

Hey, I got up 4.30 a.m this morning and this is the third Meme I am at, by the rate it goes, I am going to be Queen of Meme in no time. I am not complaining, it’s an honour to be tagged (really?), it helps with getting this blog off the ground/bush or wherever it’s.:-)

So here the rules: “Each person links to the person who tagged them. Then each person posts the rules before their list. Then they list 8 things about themselves. At the end of the post, that person tags and links to 8 other people and then visits those people’s sites and comments and letting them know that they’ve been tagged, and to come read the post so they know what they have to do …”

Fellow Malaccan Miche wants to know 8 things about me. I wonder why 8 things, is it has to do with the Chinese belief that “8″ is a lucky number for prosperity?

8 Things about Me:
1. My Name is Leah
2. I am a Christian.
3. I have been a teacher for the past 13 years.
4. I am married to an American angmoh.
5. I am born and bred in Malacca, and I live in Malacca right now. Do I ever leave the town?! :-)
6. I am not a fussy eater, don’t eat out that much and prefer home cooked food, almost every edible thing minus the cardboard tastes good to me.:-)
7. I have too many hobbies that I don’t have time and money to keep at this point of life!
8. I run a small Montessori school and a tuition centre that I am trying to sell, and my dream is to have opportunity to educate the community about the difference between schooling and education, and the alternative to learning.

I am going to tag the following 8 people that I enjoy reading their blogs though I don’t necessary always leave comments.:-)

1. Montessorimum
2. Chinnee
3. Hui Sia
4. Parisbeaverbank
5. Jesslyn
6. Giddy Tiger
7. Vedis
8. New parents

Kiasumum tagged me with the million $$ question

1 million of what currency? I think I have 1 million Rupiah. :-) Hopefully, I will have total of 1 million Ringgit for retirement in saving & investment.

But, we are allowed to dream, aren’t we? What to do with a wind fall of 1 million? I choose a million in USD because 1 million Ringgit is not enough for the dream, 1 million pound would be too much. :-)

My dream is to purpose built an authentic community based Montessori school that I can choose to enrol ONLY those who wanted a Montessori education for their children, one I can choose to interview the parents before their children are enrolled, one that I can have a sliding scale in fees structure, meaning people who can afford pay more and people who can’t afford pay less or get tuition exemption.

So, the 1 million dollars will be spent to:

• Take a Montessori teacher preparatory course in person for myself (I am taking one through distance learning)

• Buy a piece of land

• Purpose build a community Montessori school

• Fully equiped classrooms

• sponsor training for teachers and assistants.

• Operation cost before it breaks even

I would like to know what the following people want to do with $$ 1 million $$ :-)

1) Wuching

2) Jessie a.k.a Hijack Queen

3) Jerry a.k.a Simple America

4) Shooi at Just My Tots

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**Start Copy**

Proposition: If you Have $1,000,000.00………………..

Requirements: continue above sentences

Tag Mode: 5 blogger
1st – You leave their blog and post link and add to the list below:
2nd – Let the blogger you want to tag know they been tagged by comment in their blog or etc.

What They Do With Their $1 Million
1. SYH will Miche will give to the needy.
3. Montessorimum will keepsake
4. Lovely Mummy will spend & save
5. Kiasumum will spend & invest
6. Leah will purpose build a Montessori school

A little bird whispered in my ears and told me of this news and this news, did you hear anything like that in your town?

My cousin in law who is a school teacher and teaches tuition at home stopped by to inform me of the news. She had stopped her tuition classes at home because the rumor is flying all over town about the authorities are cracking down tuition centers like brothels, checking whether there are teachers who do part time there without permission from the education department, they also have an operation to crackdown teachers who teach tuition at home at one part of the town, as the rumor seem to say.

Well, I don’t teach the normal school syllabus and I don’t hire school teachers, my teachers are retired or full time tutors. So, am I the only place in town that is not affected? :-)

In fact, I am trying to get out of this tuition business to concentrate on running the preschool. It’s so sick to compete with school teachers who leak examination questions. I have advertised twice to sell the tutoring service and a dozen people have came to look at the building or inquired about the price, but so far no deal has been closed.

Suddenly with this cracking down on teachers thing, every other school teacher is looking for a shop lot to start a tuition center. Of course, they want to start a center with their spouse or sibling’s name, not their own. I have been approached by two people about partnership. I told them I want to sell, not interested in messy partnership. My chance is here? Hopefully, I get to sell it this time with a good price!!