A very good day

Things went especially well for me today. I’m not sure why, but things just went well. I was enjoying my time at work and all the classes I had today were great. The students were great, the activities were great, the attitude was great and that’s extremely rare.

I had three classes today and the first being 9th grade yuri. They aren’t as bad as the other teacher makes them to be, but today they were really good. I think a bit annoying for the other teacher, but I thought it was fine. They had to do an activity about money today, and like the other classes, they were into it. They were actually able to do it better than the other classes too. I think that they are getting more serious now because their trip is coming up soon. They interacted with me more than they have before too, which was weird, but good. I’m glad actually and it’s great that it happened.

The second class today was with 11th grade ran. They were pretty good today, a bit loud and talkative, but that’s because I’m nice. I had to wait a few times to get their attention, but things were pretty good. I did a basic lesson from the textbook and then a handout to get them ready for the next section on going abroad. I think that they will like the next section because it will be very interactive and they will have a great opportunity to see and touch and imagine things they haven’t before. I’m really excited about it myself. But today, it was only just introducing the topic with pictures from the textbook and some dialogues. I was leading up to the things that we talked about today and hinting that they would be on the test that’s coming up.

The last class of the day was with 7th grade yuri. They were very good today and we had parents in the junior high school classes so they were watching our activities. They had a bit harder task than the 9th graders this morning, but I think that they performed very well. It required a lot of thinking, which isn’t very usual for the activities that we do for them because usually they aren’t able to handle it. But because this weekend is the English Fun Fair, they need to get really good practice with it and they had to answer questions and answers. They did a little bit about countries and nationalities. It was good for them to learn and I think that they were pretty good at it.

After school, I pretty much stayed in the Language Laboratory and worked on the laptop all day. I needed to get some stuff done. I was working on some stuff for the 9th grade lessons and looking for some menus online of the restaurants that the students will be going to in March so that we could get real life examples and for them to be really prepared for it. I think that they will be able to enjoy it better if they get to see the real things and be able to really do a good role-play with the things that they need to learn.

Then I was talking with some teachers in the other office and I found out that I make a lot more money than most of the teachers at my school. It’s very odd, but it’s because I’m in a special position. I was complaining that I didn’t make enough and then I found out that they didn’t make nearly as much as I do, so I stopped complaining immediately. I thought it was weird and can’t even imagine how they could survive since they make less and things for them cost more. I mean I live very cheaply and I barely scrap by, I don’t even know how they do it. But it was a nice conversation to have because I was going to ask for a raise, but now I’ve reconsidered since it wouldn’t be possible since I already make so much as it is.

I had dinner tonight at Bamiyan and didn’t get my usual Fried Rice and Gyoza. I thought that was weird, but I think that ordering some other things is important too. So I wanted to try that out and be a little different today. That was good and it was pretty delicious too.