General Report

General report.....
#1 Work
#2 The never ending chore of thinking of lesson plans and making them fun for the kids.
#3 Restaurants, baoziguan and more restaurants.
#4 Learning Theory and basics for Guzheng
#5 Shopping(mostly window) and hanging with friends
#6 Enjoying the sudden change in temperature...last week below 10C... 24C today....31C tomorrow. Bring on the beautiful sunshine :-)

Oh for some reason this semester, many teachers come and watch my classes. Not unusual now for a different english teacher to often sit in the corner and take notes (or I usually try and get them to join in:-) Most of the J1 teachers seem to incorporate many of my ideas and games (and their own) into their lessons now or ask for advice on activities they could do to enhance whatever they have to teach from the text books (which I kind of feel proud about!) UNFORTUNATELY it seems to have morphed into a "teaching the teachers" period once a week and....it seems that the "English Club" (fancy name, just meaning an extra lesson)will also appear on my timetable for a class of the best english students.
All I see my job as here, is to teach the kids to have fun with english, give them an opportunity to listen to a native english speaker and understand and use what they learn. They work sooo hard on grammar and all the key basics in their "real english class", my stuff is just supplementary...Still if they think it's helping...Great!
A lot like life really...seem to need to find a balance of "realising there is some kind of purpose" but also "not taking it all too seriously".