I completed a whole week of work! It went very well and my students are all great (except one, who is a pain). There are twelve students in each class, and they hail from countries such as Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, East Timor, S. Korea, Chile, Cambodia, Belgium (though originally from Dem Rep of Congo), Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. This term is eight weeks long, although the final week is just that - finals!
The classes are both held nearly two hours each day (8:30a - 10:15a, 10:30a - 12:15p), so I teach about twenty hours per week. I am required to hold two office hours per week when the students can come see me for additional help. Other than that, I do not need to be on site. Of course, there are papers to grade, lesson plans to develop, activities to create, and so on. I could bring those home in the afternoon and do them here, but I prefer to finish my work at work.
Gus's brother is here for the week, keeping him occupied while I'm gone during the day. Hopefully that'll help ease Gus's transition from both of us being home 24/7 to him being home without me and being responsible for the housework. :)
The only other news is that there hasn't been a drop of rain in the four weeks we've been down here, and the daytime highs haven't been below 95 since June 3rd (the nighttime lows have been right around 70, which is pretty nice - too bad I sleep at night). In the next seven days the highs are only going to be below 100 on one day, when the high is supposed to be 98. That's ok, though. There will only be another 3 months of this heat before it starts to cool down again! :P
2 comments:
Congrats on finishing your first week! I was watching "Stripes" this morning and thought of you when Russell Ziskey was teaching the room full of immigrants. heh. "I want you to call me 'Russell,' and I'm going to call you by your first names, because frankly, I have a pretty tough time pronouncing some of your last names,"
:D
Angela, what sort of activities do you create?
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