Well, last week we started the fall semester (koki) here, and I had my first classes, and I survived!
We are basically beginning the new semester online, with the expectation that sometime in October we'll move back into the classroom, assuming the coronavirus pandemic is trending down here as it has been recently. Wednesday I had my graduate school class with two MA students in their first years, trying to help them get ready to explain their thesis topics at a formal presentation event in late November, my seminar for fourth-year university students, in which we'll read Wonder during eight weeks, and my Freshman English Interactive English class (basically conversation) for English majors. All three Wednesday classes went OK, I think, and I didn't get any headaches or light headed feeling etc. etc. as I started being subject to last semester from near the end of June. One reason may be that it's less hot and humid than it was during summer (though it still is getting up to 30 now in late September). Thursday was a national holiday and was observed by the university, so there were no classes, which was very nice and helpful. Friday I had my first period American culture class, in which I didn't (as usual, alas) give the students enough time to ask enough questions etc., then two graduate school classes back to back. They all were OK, and, as with Wednesday, I got no headaches, etc. I'm still nervous about Thursday classes, which will begin next week, because the fourth and fifth period Freshman English and Intermediate English classes were the hardest for me to survive when things got difficult last semester. The students will all be new, but the classes themselves the same. I'll have to hope that being cooler will reduce my headaches etc. etc. ANYWAY, finally the second semester is under way, and so far so good.
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