So last week was the first full week with four days of classes, cause the week before had a holiday on Friday. So last Friday was the first Friday class day for fall semester. It was fine.
I had period 2 Reading and Writing for (I think) Science-Electronics majors (nineteen boys and one girl!), and we'll be reading Charlotte's Web in the class. One boy had bought the book from amazon instead of from the campus bookstore, and he got a British publisher version with 249 pages, when the version everyone else (and I) will be using has the standard American 184 pages. Thus the Guide and Homework Handout I made from the book will have different pages for things than his edition, and it will be impossible for him to follow us in class when we go to different pages in the book for the lecture etc. I sent him an email advising him to return the book to amazon and buy the appropriate one from our school bookstore, but haven't heard back from him. Apart from that, the class seems OK, with the lads seeming lively enough (apart from one who fell asleep when I was explaining the syllabus). Though, being third-year students majoring in science, I suspect that many of the students will have low English levels... Then I had my graduate school class with one of my two MA students, both of whom are working on their theses this year. I see them in alternating weeks. Both have been making progress and have drafts of about two of their three main chapters done by now. So they should be OK... Finally, I had my American culture class for third and fourth year English majors, which is always a pleasure. There are fifty in the class, and the room is suitable for up to two hundred, I think, so of course they all sat in the back with four full empty rows of desks in front of them, so I'll make them move forward next time. I mostly introduced the coming midterm elections... And when ending the class, I could say "TGIF!" with them and hear it said back to me, which was very nice. On that last Friday, I took the above photo of one of our classroom buildings, the one where I have all my university classes this semester, Building A, which looks lovely and golden in the late afternoon sunlight, but is really inconvenient in many ways, like not having enough elevators for the number of people who go to and leave classes each period and having windows that only open a few centimeters and air conditioning vents only in the rear of the rooms, etc. etc. At least it looks good near sunset!
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