The last day of November
Tuesdays are the longest days for me. I like them though because I like working with the 10th graders. They offer the MOST challenging situations because they have a really bad attitude about everything and lack respect for anyone. These are the students that I was warned about before I came to teach at the school. Fortunately for me, this will be my core grade level since CP doesn't teach the 10th grade and the other teacher will be leaving in a few more classes.
ES, is really starting to show she's preganant, which means her departure is coming rapidly.
Kinda scary for me since I'll be responsible for the 10th grade Education. And today she called in to say she'd be late, and we didn't have any plan for the classes today since the oral exams were the last class. Mrs. Hon.. had a plan for me to do a debate with the 10th grade, but I really wasn't ready to do something like that. It's too advanced for the students in my opinion, but since I was asked to do it by the level chair, I'd just have to listen and do the best I could with it.
I was so distracted by all this that I forgot that I had to teach the 9th grade today too. CP was waiting for me and I was like... oh yeah. So we went to do a shopping chapter. I could understand how the 9th graders felt because it was boring. And their attitudes weren't into learning either so it was a lose-lose situation. Sad to say and even harder to go through. They should be excited as hell since they will actually have to use what they learned in the coming months. The English Festival is in a few weeks and their trip to Santa Barbara will come at the end of the year. They will be going to America for crying out loud.
As it turned out, Erin S. came in time and her train wasn't that delayed so we went along with her plan for the final three classes. We did an activity today covering school uniforms and rules, and we listened to Last Christmas and the students had to circle the words that they heard in the song. But it was too difficult for them. The rules were easier for some classes than others.
Fuji class had a huge lecture the other day by the headmaster. I mean I've never heard him yell at anyone, but he was yelling at three girls for having a bad attitude toward teachers. It was kind of scary for them and for everyone to be honest with you.The club started off kinda weird because our Language Labratory was taken by another engagement. So we were class-less. And there were only 4 students too.
Two 10th and two 7th graders, who were the new comers to the group. Hopefully they'll come around more often. It will be good for the club. I played a memory game with the flash cards that I made, even though half the the deck was another color and had the answers on the back, it was still challenging. In fact, the strange thing was that the 7th graders performed better at memorizing the cards location and the object names than the 10th graders. It was really amazing, I gave the winners some candy pieces. The only reason why a 10th grader got candy was because she was partnered with a 7th grader for a round. Quite interesting I'd must admit.
