Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Teaching

My day was hectic! I had a Japanese lesson in the morning, though today there were only three of us! Ciarán decided to stay at home to write some article. I think it is voluntary, and politically orientated. Whatever floats his boat, I guess! Rushen went off to work, so I ate lunch with Drummond. I had the special today: tonkatsu, i.e. some strips of battered pork, with some good tonkatsu sauce over it (it is a little like Worcestershire sauce, so I have heard, but I have never eaten that so I do not know).

Drummond and I went to Sebastian’s class in the afternoon to continue our translation. It is quite fun, and Seb is very patient. We finished the second page today, though we might have a go at going a little further by ourselves. It would make it more of a discussion in class about the problems we came across, which might be more interesting and we would go much faster through the book! I only have 5 weeks left to finish the remaining 18 pages. It does not matter, though. I will finish it by myself, hopefully, at some point! Anyway, the book is about a village after WWII having a visit from some American troops for the first time. So far, they have all been slightly scared by their arrival. The dialog is quite amusing, though, as they use some quite brash formations.

I came home after class, pottered and returned for Linden Hall. I got there a little wet (it was raining) but mostly sweat covered! I had my yellow shirt on, which multiplies the effects of water on it. I wrote it off as just rain, thanks to the weather outside! Little did they know I was just sweating far too heavily! Unfortunately, I was a whole 30 minutes early, despite having twigged that today was a later day. Fool that I am; I could have taken my time. Brendan and I took the lesson for 30 minutes. We did describing things, again. One of my favourite lesson-types: you just let the children do it! Brendan disappeared to some meeting 10 minutes before the end, but I handled the 10 children that they were. I did my favourite ending as well: making them all line up until they were all completely silent. It took a good minute or two. I like to think that it makes them appreciate that they have an effect on each other. Also, maybe the ones that understand will make the others shut-up!

I came home on the bus. It was good to hear the kendo students are back practicing, letting out strangled, blood-curdling screams all the time. I ate quickly (some strange bacon stuff), and then ran off to my other class (Bink’s one). I was not too rushed today for some reason, so I did not stuff or cycle too fast! I had an okay lesson with the three-oldies. They told me about “the relationship between Japan and South Korea, with respect to the Torino Olympics,” “UK School League Tables,” and “Nursing Animals” (i.e. animals used in nursing). An interesting collection. They are quite fun to talk to; at least, the time passes quickly. It was still raining, but very lightly so I did not really get wet. I had my umbrella with me though.

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