This semester I will be teaching Chinese one hour a week at a local Valparaiso elementary school. It is a new program set up in cooperation with VU to open the eyes of youngsters up to the worlds that exist outside of the bounds of English. Languages that will be offered include Spanish, French, German, and Chinese. (I'm teaching Chinese, just in case you are wondering.)
Today was the first training session. I listened through four hours of creative ideas for the teaching elementary students. Most of the ideas I plan to use in class. They were brilliant. Ordinary I'd be excited with attending a meeting like this, especially since it was paid, but during the last two hours something unexpected happened. I got tired. I fought for my life today to appear in perfect alert state, but I must have failed, because near the end of the presentation, the girl sitting next to me told me that the students sitting across from me were snickering.
Maybe I wasn't so alert after all. I guess I'll have to try harder next time.
1 comment:
how cool! that's a really great opportunity for you. I heard through the grapevine that you're going to be mentoring too. You sure are staying busy!
Deidre
PS. I haven't been on here in a while and I enjoyed reading the blog version of you buying the watermelon, but it wasn't quite as funny as you telling it in person! ha it still makes me laugh :)
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