Tired Monday

Today, I don’t know if it was all the alcohol I’ve been drinking lately or something else, but my throat was kinda sore and I was a tad bit on the tired side. It’s one of the few days that I have work this month. I felt all groggy all day. I think I might have caught something from the other teachers. I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint which teacher since a lot of them are sick now and getting sick too.

Today I taught one 7th grade class and a pair of 8th grade classes. In the 7th grade classes we just reviewed the body parts using some cards that the other Native English speaker had been working on. She’s been coming down with something I so took over for a certain part of it, but I think I covered the wrong thing. I had misinterpreted something that she asked me to do. I hadn’t realized it until afterwards, but I think it’s because we both were a little out of it. She had been taking a lot of medication to relieve her sinus problems, so she was really out of it.

In the 8th grade classes, we just did the final preparations for the speech contest. They had done a great job since both these classes are the higher level. I’m not sure how the judging will occur or what will happen, but I think that for the most part they will be fine. It’s going to be hard to judge since I’ve heard all of them before too.

I stuck around for the English club. It was the last one of the year before the end of the year party for the students that had already graduated. We didn’t really do that much because I was really out of it. But I took the cards that we were using for the 7th grade and we played a game of memory. We were practicing for the 7th graders again, so they don’t beat us next time. But I think the game got kinda lame after a little bit. But I wanted them to review the body parts too, since some of them didn’t know some of them. It was a little bit difficult if you hadn’t studied it before. After that we did the final preparations for the party. They had showed me the gifts that they bought for the other teacher and for the graduated students. It was really nice and they did a great job working on it. I think that it was a good way to end the year with the 10th grade girls. One of the top 8th grade girls was there too.