I also found out that Chris and I have very different teaching styles, Chris is a bit more authoritarian and teachery, mine is more relaxed and casual.
The second day we we talked about the film from last night, forrest gump, and the children remembered an amazing amount of information! We also talked about the English royal family, about a map of the UK, and then played a simple game, similar to countdown, the longest word beginning with a certain letter, it went ok but not active enough for these kids!
We also went for a walk around the site, teaching them the word observatory! and heading to the music room where two of the children played swan lake and the nutcracker on a piano there! Amazing! lucky I got a video of it too!
The rest of the teaching went in the same style of spending ages planning some sort of lesson and worrying about it, then winging it and the children loving it when we got off topic, since I was teaching oral english as long as we speak english it's fine!
After I had finished, all I wanted was a lovely long lie in, as I went to sleep I got a text that a 3rd year student was visiting at 8.15 for a chat, ouch!
I woke up to 15 minutes of loud knocking on the door, and in the end, I answered it.
3 hours later the student left and I ended up pottering around before heading back to bed for a siesta, then dinner, then a real sleep, nice.
3 hours later the student left and I ended up pottering around before heading back to bed for a siesta, then dinner, then a real sleep, nice.
The next day we went to buy some train tickets, and I ended up booking a flight! A little more expensive than I hoped but still it looks like I am getting up north, although the train I booked to hangzhou is on new years day here, the train will be empty!! haha, even the shops and restaurants aren't open!
Now I have some time again I will try to blog more often, the crazy longs hours were pretty painful. Just trying to think of what to talk about for 6 horus a day!
Teaching photos to follow!
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