well, hello...
ha. i posted that thing about shopping in shizzers on accident. i meant to make it a private post, but apparently i didn't. not because it is some big secret, but because it's not very interesting. we have 4 new teachers coming in the next month, and all of us had to write a bit about some aspect of life in shijiazhuang. my email was being a bitch, so instead of sending it that way, i stuck it on lj so as to be able to access it from other computers around the school. oh, the excitement.
been having a myriad of interesting floating around the old crainum, but always the same old story. never get it down before they drift off again. alas. no great loss to the world i suppose.
totally knackered today. children sucking my soul. all the kids in the school, not just mine, are restless today. this, as you can imagine, makes it very difficult to teach. i think i sang the 'she's swinging on the swing in front of me' song about 30 times by myself today. and it's a great song to teach prepositions of place and park stuff. sounds like a gospel tune, complete with back up singers--swinging, swinging. i was rockin' out. the kids, however, were not. hazards of the occupation i suppose. in my higher level class, i kept misspelling the word 'villain' in the heroes and villains unit. also got punched in the stomach teaching the word 'tough', and learned the wee babbers 'drool' and 'butt'. don't ask.
i need to plan my next lesson--in 45mins--and my first one tomorrow, but i cannot find the strength. my desk is a whole 3 meters away...oooh...help...
he he he. thought i had loads of interesting things to report and reflect upon, but i suppose i don't. have been smoking less cause i am coming down with a cold. have been meditating at night because i can't sleep. it is making me much more conscious of the energy dynamic in the classroom and in the office. also stripping away some of the wall of negativity that has grown up around me. trying to eminate compassion and unconditional love. god, it's a struggle. but one molecule at a time i suppose.
now the time has definately come for me to go plan. *read* i have enough time to go smoke a ciggerette, swill down a cup of cold instant coffee and skim the book. vive mon travaille!
been having a myriad of interesting floating around the old crainum, but always the same old story. never get it down before they drift off again. alas. no great loss to the world i suppose.
totally knackered today. children sucking my soul. all the kids in the school, not just mine, are restless today. this, as you can imagine, makes it very difficult to teach. i think i sang the 'she's swinging on the swing in front of me' song about 30 times by myself today. and it's a great song to teach prepositions of place and park stuff. sounds like a gospel tune, complete with back up singers--swinging, swinging. i was rockin' out. the kids, however, were not. hazards of the occupation i suppose. in my higher level class, i kept misspelling the word 'villain' in the heroes and villains unit. also got punched in the stomach teaching the word 'tough', and learned the wee babbers 'drool' and 'butt'. don't ask.
i need to plan my next lesson--in 45mins--and my first one tomorrow, but i cannot find the strength. my desk is a whole 3 meters away...oooh...help...
he he he. thought i had loads of interesting things to report and reflect upon, but i suppose i don't. have been smoking less cause i am coming down with a cold. have been meditating at night because i can't sleep. it is making me much more conscious of the energy dynamic in the classroom and in the office. also stripping away some of the wall of negativity that has grown up around me. trying to eminate compassion and unconditional love. god, it's a struggle. but one molecule at a time i suppose.
now the time has definately come for me to go plan. *read* i have enough time to go smoke a ciggerette, swill down a cup of cold instant coffee and skim the book. vive mon travaille!