We've already run through three weeks of the fall semester here! I just barely got over jet lag from a trip and classes started and caught me up and...
I guess they're going OK so far. Freshman English classes for chemistry majors and for commerce majors are challenging but the young ones are mostly fun to spend time with. English conversation class for first-year English majors is most enjoyable, with the only problems being 1) the students' tendency to use Japanese whenever I'm not hovering over them, and 2) my feeling that after all I have no idea how to teach English conversation. The first-year Introduction to American Culture and Literature is emotionally and physically demanding and rewarding (we're in the middle of African American culture and literature unit). The third-year American Culture class is fine (we're starting an American English unit while covering the Trump impeachment investigation bit by bit). And my three (four?) graduate school classes are fun and stimulating, though also a bit exhausting, in the sense that I have two one-on-one classes, one one-on-two class, and one seminar with six students, so the concentration and focus required coupled with my fatigue from other classes mean that by the last class of my school week, Friday period 4 seminar, I'm often having trouble hiding my yawns and keeping my eyes open! ANYWAY, the semester has gotten underway, and my usual trials and tribulations and triumphs are occurring as per every year at this time, and I can't believe it's already 2019, and I can't believe it's already October, and I'm hoping that I have enough energy to run through January 2020.
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