| | 816 days since I joined xanga apparently. Quite a long time.
Since the week before October, I have been teaching nothing but
Halloween lessons. How many lessons can one teach based on
Halloween? Apparently more than any other English subject
matter. We only taught the kids a few words for some monsters,
ghosts, jack o lantern, bat and spider, yet we continue to teach them
lessons on Halloween. And by "teach lessons", I of course mean
playing pointless games or making halloween crafts. There is a
Holiday for students(not me) on Friday of next week, which means I will
have to teach a November Halloween lesson for the children who miss
English that day. I am so sick of orange and black construction
paper.
All the Halloween bullshit aside, I really do enjoy my job. It is
really great to only work at a single school and have the
opportunity to actually rememeber the names of some of your
students. It also seems that elementary schoolers are really fun
to teach, if one could call my job "teaching." Usually we
just introduce a few new words and then play a few games or sing a song
with the kids. There are rarely more than 4 hours of
teaching time in an 8 hour work day. I can complain a lot about
my job, but it sure beats working for NOVA or one of those other
eikaiwa that work their teachers to death.
Today I helped fill in for a homeroom teacher who was absent. I
took part in the 1 and 2 grade P.E. lesson and got to run with the
children on their so-called marathon course(a small run around the
school walls). I stood at a corner and waved students by as they
ran, joining the very last student who passed me and pushing the
stragglers to keep it up and not walk. Of course, back in my
elementary school days, I was the fat kid who couldn't keep up with the
others, so it was somewhat enjoyable to run circles around those
fatties. Maybe one day they'll be able to act physically fit
towards fat children.
I am struggling to think of ideas for the post-Halloween English
room. My Japanese English teacher wants me to make a "Jeff
Corner" dedicated to my hometown/life. I guess I could
throw together some BS on myself and Maryland/DC, but
what about the rest of the English room? What about all
those places currently taken up by crappy Halloween
decorations? Thinking about shit like that is the biggest stress
in my job.
Enough for today. Another update may follow sometime soon.
P.S.
Oh, and thanks for the comment Ender! I don't know how long
you'll keep recieving your TV Guides. Hopefully the free
promotional subscription I signed up for via the internet will provide
you with many more months of pointless junk mail! Do you still
recieve Sporting News and the other crappy magazines I had free
subscriptions to?
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