Wow, today was my second day of teacher training and it is INTENSE! Thankfully, it's intense in a good way - in an interesting, action-packed, hands-on, start-teaching-on-your-very-first-day, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants-and-surprisingly-enjoying it kind of way :)To practise teaching, we have a lovely group of older Korean ladies coming in every day. They get these lessons for free, and also get to socialize and have an amusing time.
I love taking a closer look at different cultures, and learning about other languages and points of view is always so eye-opening!
The less fun but still somewhat fascinating aspect of the program is learning lots and lots of grammar...yay (?)! I must confess, I've always been a bit of a grammar geek and actually enjoy doing grammar exercises. I think it must be because I did have to learn English as a second language myself when I was younger...or maybe it's just one of those quirks :)
And now it's time for some porcini mushroom chicken stew with sweet potato mash :) There's nothing like a delicious, warming dinner after a hard day's work :)
Oh, and I'm thinking of switching to this font because it's a bit easier to read...this can be a test run :)
Cheerio!
Glad to hear you are enjoying the training so far! I totally hear ya on the grammar geek bit...haha. For some reason writing/English always came really naturally to me, so I enjoy those seemingly basic things a lot! Just don't ask me anything about math :S
ReplyDeleteSounds like a yummy dinner!!!
Isn't it great when you can take your natural skills and apply them towards a fulfilling career? I think if everyone had the opportunity to do this, the world would be a much happier, less money-crazy place :)
ReplyDeleteHooray for grammar! You might like the book 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' by Lynne Truss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves
haha, that book sounds awesome! I should include some excerpts when I start teaching first year university courses... :s
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