break...
...time. not much to report today. am pretty tired, having a decent teaching day. am a little low energy, my kids are a little bored as a result. must. get. hyper. teaching is giving me a new appreciation for all of my teachers from first grade on. holy buckets. thanks to them. some of them were really talented.
posted by smochs at 3:36 PM
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ARGH!! So sorry I missed your phone call! We spent all day Sat stripping the woodwork in the dining room, and then we fell asleep on the couch at 9:30. :( I heard the phone ring, but I didn't want to get out of bed. Stupid bed! Stupid sleeping!
Things are fine here, and I should go write a big blog entry of my own. :) Hope you're feeling better! Assign readings during class. Or make them do group work. Don't try to do it all yourself when you're not feeling the best. Make them teach each other for a few days. It's good for them, too.
oi, thank you, mel. i can't sleep. am having nightmares about cockroaches crawling all over me and giant essays chasing me around my apartment. yeeps. have been trying to make them do more group work, but i can only do that in my first class of the day. the little kids are too small to understand and some of them fight ~lol~, and my last class is so shy no one will speak.
am glad all is well with you! how goes the house? i haven't had time to check your blog since i got here, gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. my computer is still out of commission. maybe this weekend. :( boo.
back to work. talk soon. :)
Oh I am so sorry to read that you are sick. I am just starting a new job and know that it would feel terrible to be sick now. There is so much to learn and do that you really want to have the energy to take it all in. When I am sick and have that low energy feeling I sleep all the time.
Well February will bring much better times. Fewer teaching hours and good health. You are strong and will endure.
My job is going okay. It's frustrating to go from the old job where I knew all the systems to the new one where it seems I have to ask the stupidest questions. It doesn't really help that at the new job they just throw you in the middle of projects with no briefing on what happened before. Well I will keep asking questions and get myself up to speed.
yeah, sucks to be sick and have noone around to baby you and then be able to call in sick to work and stay home and watch videos...
and the nightmares(!) - worse than actor's nightmares - egads! I remember when my friend who taught in Japan was saying kids were to shy to let her know they needed to go to the bathroom, and many unpleasant accidents occurred in the early days of her teaching... also hope you get the computer fixed soon. computer and car issues send me into an instant rage. good luck juggling it all and remember - it's all good. -love, jen
p.s. brokeback mtn won lots of golden globes - yay!
And some of them were not. Still can't say I learned a whole lot from Senor Ellingson. A decent guy but I think the guys who sat there during tests with their books wide open on the floor next to their desks learned about as much as the rest of us.
However, you're right- our teachers probably deserved much more credit than we gave them!
Feeling any better yet?
Ugh! Maybe you could really confuse the kids and have them do acting exercises like... the mirror exercise, and make them memorize Shakespeare monologues. That'll keep them busy! I, too, am exhausted and moving around in a fog. I keep losing things everywhere, it's so irritating!
Oh, here's an idea! Find a wordless movie to play them, like the french movie The Red Balloon. Then have them get into groups and take turns telling the story in English. Then you wouldn't hardly have to speak (and I can barely put together a sentence correctly in English!)
Good luck, babe. Hang in there. The good times, they are just around the corner. : )
Love,
Jeany.
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