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Making BLTs on Friday went pretty well. Not great, but it could've been a lot worse.
After I gave the initial instructions, the students kind of went on auto-mode, which helped to speed things up, but caused the bacon to turn out a bit differently than I had hoped. There was no vegetable oil, but luckily the bacon wasn't too lean to be cooked in its own fat. As I anticipated, this was the first time most, if not all, of them had seen bacon fried, so they tended to take the bacon out of the pan a bit earlier than I wanted them too. In a way, that helped to save the lesson, since the students also turned the heat up much higher than I had asked for them to. One other problem concerns the bread. The only bread that I found in the grocery store is very, very thick. When the ingredients were put in between two of those hulking slices, the result was a very big sandwich, even by American standards. Pretty much everyone there had difficulty eating their sandwich, and some of them ended up becoming salads!
We made the sandwiches during the period just before lunch, so we just ate the sandwiches with lunch. The teacher suggested that next year, we make the sandwiches during the last period, as a kind of snack. Still, none of the students seemed to have any difficulty finding room for the sandwich along with their school lunch, albeit with smaller portions than normal. Seriously, I have never seen someone so small eat so much! I really have to wonder where they're putting it all.
Kagoshima dialect word time!
かごっま(Kagomma)-->鹿児島(Kagoshima)-->Kagoshima, the prefecture where I live.
After I gave the initial instructions, the students kind of went on auto-mode, which helped to speed things up, but caused the bacon to turn out a bit differently than I had hoped. There was no vegetable oil, but luckily the bacon wasn't too lean to be cooked in its own fat. As I anticipated, this was the first time most, if not all, of them had seen bacon fried, so they tended to take the bacon out of the pan a bit earlier than I wanted them too. In a way, that helped to save the lesson, since the students also turned the heat up much higher than I had asked for them to. One other problem concerns the bread. The only bread that I found in the grocery store is very, very thick. When the ingredients were put in between two of those hulking slices, the result was a very big sandwich, even by American standards. Pretty much everyone there had difficulty eating their sandwich, and some of them ended up becoming salads!
We made the sandwiches during the period just before lunch, so we just ate the sandwiches with lunch. The teacher suggested that next year, we make the sandwiches during the last period, as a kind of snack. Still, none of the students seemed to have any difficulty finding room for the sandwich along with their school lunch, albeit with smaller portions than normal. Seriously, I have never seen someone so small eat so much! I really have to wonder where they're putting it all.
Kagoshima dialect word time!
かごっま(Kagomma)-->鹿児島(Kagoshima)-->Kagoshima, the prefecture where I live.