Hey, I really like my Thursday period 4 English Conversation class for first-year English majors! (You can see half of them in the above photo above.) The kids are engaged, active, interesting, fun, funny, bright, responsive, and good to spend 90 mins per week with. Sure, several of them missed class the week before and didn't get the homework handout (about requesting and offering), so they weren't ready for the next class, but I can't get very upset with them. I am looking forward to fall semester with them, when we'll read Charlotte's Web and use it for group discussions every week.
A new level of busy-ness is about to start for me. A week from this coming Wednesday, I have to take two hours to record a half-hour lecture for Yume Navi, some kind of promotional service our university is using. The resulting lecture will supposedly be available online for years! Needless to say, I've been preparing for it for months now, and have it almost memorized. The problem is that I still don't know exactly how I'll coordinate doing the required powerpoint slide show with doing the lecture while being videoed. Then starting next week, my duties as part of the three-person Entrance Examination Committee for the English Department begin, which means that for four Saturdays in a row I'll have to go to school for seven or eight hour meetings, each of which will need hours to prepare for. And of course classes will be going on as usual. Yikes! Luckily, we're already over half-way through spring semester! By the way, another class I'm really enjoying is the Friday period 4 American Culture class for third and fourth year students. I've been doing rather heavy and difficult topics lately, like problems with American freedom (like guns and gun violence etc.), so next class and the one after should be better for the poor kids, being about American money. Right--so here's to surviving this semester!
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December 2023
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