Woke up to rain but somehow it was also amazingly warm. This is I understand is an Irish winter but I’ve been told not to get to used to any type of weather it can change in a second.
Class was good today we had to observe another class of Intermediate level students first thing this morning. The teacher, Tristan talked about lucky charms and besides the rabbit’s foot and the shamrock none of the other students could think of a single lucky charm from their country. Ju, from Korea however gave us a bit of interesting information on superstitions and one was if you cut your nails in the evening before bed a rat will come and eat the nail clippings and then take on your personality and start running amuck in the world disguised as you, or something there about. For those of us who are still single and looking for M
r. Right we were admittedly intrigued by the Koran tradition that if you go into your bathroom at midnight and look into the mirror while you hold a knife in your mouth you will see the face of your Mr. Right and you will I guess meet him soon. I told Ju during the morning break that I would have to do that and she reminded me that it must be done in the bathroom at midnight or it won’t work. I think I can manage those few little details.
Now, since I’ve been feeling better after having had a cold, I have been much more like my normal enthusiastic self in class and Louis, my teammate from Canada pointed out today, after one of my enthusiastic comments that he balances my enthusiasm and I think he’s right. Actually all four of us in my group really balance each other very nicely. We couldn’t have picked a better group if we had tried. Maura also pointed out during the conversation in class about optimism vs. pessimism that she is an optimist when she should be pessimistic and a pessimist when she should be optimistic. I suppose we all are like that at one time or another.
When our whole class got back together around 11:00am my fellow students had a lovely birthday surprise for me. They had gotten me a card and each wrote such sweet things and gave well wishes for a wonderful new year and they also got me a chocolaty treat which I enjoyed immensely during lunch.
Class was good today we had to observe another class of Intermediate level students first thing this morning. The teacher, Tristan talked about lucky charms and besides the rabbit’s foot and the shamrock none of the other students could think of a single lucky charm from their country. Ju, from Korea however gave us a bit of interesting information on superstitions and one was if you cut your nails in the evening before bed a rat will come and eat the nail clippings and then take on your personality and start running amuck in the world disguised as you, or something there about. For those of us who are still single and looking for M
r. Right we were admittedly intrigued by the Koran tradition that if you go into your bathroom at midnight and look into the mirror while you hold a knife in your mouth you will see the face of your Mr. Right and you will I guess meet him soon. I told Ju during the morning break that I would have to do that and she reminded me that it must be done in the bathroom at midnight or it won’t work. I think I can manage those few little details.Now, since I’ve been feeling better after having had a cold, I have been much more like my normal enthusiastic self in class and Louis, my teammate from Canada pointed out today, after one of my enthusiastic comments that he balances my enthusiasm and I think he’s right. Actually all four of us in my group really balance each other very nicely. We couldn’t have picked a better group if we had tried. Maura also pointed out during the conversation in class about optimism vs. pessimism that she is an optimist when she should be pessimistic and a pessimist when she should be optimistic. I suppose we all are like that at one time or another.
When our whole class got back together around 11:00am my fellow students had a lovely birthday surprise for me. They had gotten me a card and each wrote such sweet things and gave well wishes for a wonderful new year and they also got me a chocolaty treat which I enjoyed immensely during lunch.
These are a few pictures of my classmates. We have a lot of laughs in the class despite the pressure and amount of work. It’s really a great group of people and I’m so lucky I took the course when I did because I have them to get through it all with. Humor especially can make most any situation more bearable.
The late morning session was taught by Julie and we got another assignment due on Friday. It’s a lesson we have to teach on unique and unusual teaching methodology and I have been paired with Ruth and Niamh who are both wonderful and we are looking forward to our shared teaching experience. I’ll have more on the specifics of that lesson in Friday’s entry.
The afternoon had us doing teacher practice 4. Maura and Aiofe had their lessons today while Louis and I go up tomorrow. I really feel both women did a great job and it was an extremely difficult lesson because it has more than 7 parts to it and you have to present all of them within an hour and do some error correction as well.
I am looking forward to my lesson tomorrow but like Maura and Aiofe I don’t expect to get any distinctions and that really is fine.
I’m currently studying in the library at school so I must get back to my work as it’s getting late.
The late morning session was taught by Julie and we got another assignment due on Friday. It’s a lesson we have to teach on unique and unusual teaching methodology and I have been paired with Ruth and Niamh who are both wonderful and we are looking forward to our shared teaching experience. I’ll have more on the specifics of that lesson in Friday’s entry.
The afternoon had us doing teacher practice 4. Maura and Aiofe had their lessons today while Louis and I go up tomorrow. I really feel both women did a great job and it was an extremely difficult lesson because it has more than 7 parts to it and you have to present all of them within an hour and do some error correction as well.
I am looking forward to my lesson tomorrow but like Maura and Aiofe I don’t expect to get any distinctions and that really is fine.
I’m currently studying in the library at school so I must get back to my work as it’s getting late.
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