Crazy Week
Let me explain, I had to go to the city for 3 days to help co-host and organize a primary school teacher conference for about 120 primary school teachers that teach in the villiages. Talk about responsibility... my supervisor thought I did a great job but its quite tough when your only given 2 days to prepare and even then I only met the teaching assisstants the night before the conference and had to give them tips on how to teach the material.
So anyways I find it hillarious and unbelieveable that my job was to assess these teachers who have been teaching from anywhere from 5 to 15 years.... Yeah, and me? how many years of experience do I have? That's right 0... oh this is my first year (anyone scared yet what I taught the teachers ? hehehe mwhahahmwwahahahawhahawahwa!
Well that being said they have much difficulty in teaching a language, and well I don't know why but it seems as if I am quite gifted in this field so in the end I think it evens the playing field... Strange no?
Mind you as luck would have it it was held in an elementary school. Which ment that I would be able to hang around and interact with the younger kids. I really like the younger grades, they just adored me. Every time I went into their class room there would be rooting and cheering for all. They tried to tackle me several times while I had to hand out my autograph. Some of them figured out if they said 'da' (which mean's big in Chinese)(not like the english ebonics 'da' which means the, but is cool. like I'm da king.) I would write a page sized autograph. It makes me sometimes wish I got to teach those kids.
Funny thing though, one of the teachers brough an inflatable hammer (made of plastic) so I went around bopping kids with the hammer, one would think that the kids would try to avoid the hammer, but no, the all wanted to be bopped... So I bopped them all, and em some. So watch out when you bop, cause you might not be allowed to stop.. hahahaha.. funny.
And best of all, as some of you may have known of my Nintendo DS, and my search for nintendo games has ended, I have found a shop that carries many! Beside the elementary school where they could get all the kids hooked! And to my surprise the games only go for $3 to $5 dollars a piece :) *grin* :) ... so I got the old super mario 4 on SNES, and Legend of Zelda a link to the past, awesome classics! Whooo hooo!! Last place I would have looked!
Well on a not so happy or funny note, there has been much rain falling here, 4 days straight, and well that has ravaged the countryside very close to teh school here. Fields have flooded crops lost and I'm sure there have been some casualities, it was unfortunate and if it wasn't for the highway that was build higher then the land I would not have been able to come back to the school for some time. Its really somethting else to be in the middle of a natural disaster, and the school and city is really lucky that not more rain fell as they were spared. Here are some of the pictures of devestastion.
So anyways I find it hillarious and unbelieveable that my job was to assess these teachers who have been teaching from anywhere from 5 to 15 years.... Yeah, and me? how many years of experience do I have? That's right 0... oh this is my first year (anyone scared yet what I taught the teachers ? hehehe mwhahahmwwahahahawhahawahwa!
Well that being said they have much difficulty in teaching a language, and well I don't know why but it seems as if I am quite gifted in this field so in the end I think it evens the playing field... Strange no?
Mind you as luck would have it it was held in an elementary school. Which ment that I would be able to hang around and interact with the younger kids. I really like the younger grades, they just adored me. Every time I went into their class room there would be rooting and cheering for all. They tried to tackle me several times while I had to hand out my autograph. Some of them figured out if they said 'da' (which mean's big in Chinese)(not like the english ebonics 'da' which means the, but is cool. like I'm da king.) I would write a page sized autograph. It makes me sometimes wish I got to teach those kids.
Funny thing though, one of the teachers brough an inflatable hammer (made of plastic) so I went around bopping kids with the hammer, one would think that the kids would try to avoid the hammer, but no, the all wanted to be bopped... So I bopped them all, and em some. So watch out when you bop, cause you might not be allowed to stop.. hahahaha.. funny.
And best of all, as some of you may have known of my Nintendo DS, and my search for nintendo games has ended, I have found a shop that carries many! Beside the elementary school where they could get all the kids hooked! And to my surprise the games only go for $3 to $5 dollars a piece :) *grin* :) ... so I got the old super mario 4 on SNES, and Legend of Zelda a link to the past, awesome classics! Whooo hooo!! Last place I would have looked!
Well on a not so happy or funny note, there has been much rain falling here, 4 days straight, and well that has ravaged the countryside very close to teh school here. Fields have flooded crops lost and I'm sure there have been some casualities, it was unfortunate and if it wasn't for the highway that was build higher then the land I would not have been able to come back to the school for some time. Its really somethting else to be in the middle of a natural disaster, and the school and city is really lucky that not more rain fell as they were spared. Here are some of the pictures of devestastion.
posted by Chris at 5:09 AM
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