Whew--I made it--the first semester classes are over! Now for examinations and grading ... and then vacation!
I had a really great Thursday last day of classes. Period 2, English conversation for English majors, was interesting, cause we could find out about voting in Korea to compare with voting in America and Japan. Period 3, American Culture Kakuron, was fun in a scary way because I covered the Republican Convention (using Melania Trump's plagiarized speech to warn the students about plagiarism for their group reports in fall semester) and Pokemon Go. But I really enjoyed the last sports majors Freshman English class, where I let them play a gesture game a soccer player wanted to play... and some of the kids had fun acting out elaborate situations to communicate words like "doctor" and "couple." For couple, a pair of soccer players left the room and came back, acting like they were meeting each other for a date, and then arguing, and then making up again, and then one of them cooked a meal for the other, who pretended it was delicious... and we were all laughing and cheering and asking them to to more "story!" in their gesturing... till finally I asked if the word they were acting out was "couple." I do wish they would do homework and I do wish that more of them were better at English (or even wanted to be better at it), but I also really enjoyed each Thursday's class with them--so healthy and young and funny and full of personality!
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