first ... post ... ever
Well, seems like I picked a bad time to start a livejournal because I created it last weekend, and then didn't have time to breathe all week : P
What was I doing? First week teaching Conversation and Culture class, a 4 week program at the ELP full of mostly japanese and tiawanese girls ... my class also has a korean guy, and a woman from slovakia. w0w. Anyway the tough part is that there's no lesson plan or curriculum set up, it's just organized around a series of trips to various places in Philadelphia so I have to make practically everything myself ... which is what's taking up every waking hour of my life currently. Yesterday, for example, I went with them to New York (there are about 115 kids in the program, btw) and today i've been working pretty much from 9am making lessons plans for the coming week. The hope is that I can get ahead a little, and not lose so much sleep doing this next week. (And hopefully make frisbee on monday :-D )
But I am suffering rather severe tmj, random body aches, and stomach pain, probably from stress and lack of sleep.
Maybe teaching isn't what I want to do after all -_- let's see how next week goes. . .
Good things: Dave and Busters thursday rocked, and I won 8-person Nascar! :-D
Bad things: If Ram doesn't get this job, he's going home in the end of August :(
Wondering things: What the hell the CyberMonkE is thinking >.
What was I doing? First week teaching Conversation and Culture class, a 4 week program at the ELP full of mostly japanese and tiawanese girls ... my class also has a korean guy, and a woman from slovakia. w0w. Anyway the tough part is that there's no lesson plan or curriculum set up, it's just organized around a series of trips to various places in Philadelphia so I have to make practically everything myself ... which is what's taking up every waking hour of my life currently. Yesterday, for example, I went with them to New York (there are about 115 kids in the program, btw) and today i've been working pretty much from 9am making lessons plans for the coming week. The hope is that I can get ahead a little, and not lose so much sleep doing this next week. (And hopefully make frisbee on monday :-D )
But I am suffering rather severe tmj, random body aches, and stomach pain, probably from stress and lack of sleep.
Maybe teaching isn't what I want to do after all -_- let's see how next week goes. . .
Good things: Dave and Busters thursday rocked, and I won 8-person Nascar! :-D
Bad things: If Ram doesn't get this job, he's going home in the end of August :(
Wondering things: What the hell the CyberMonkE is thinking >.