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My New Teaching Day

This is my first full teaching day. 9:30 sharp I have the housewives in the morning. This time it went a lot better, with a little help from everyone we all made it through class, learned a few things, and had some fun. I find that when a large group of ladies get together they really want to have fun. I grew up pretty sheltered from the female culture, probably my own fault though, and only in the recent years have I become to see the habits of the "fairer" sex. One lady brought out pictures of her children and the first thing the ladies talk about is their size. How skinny or thin someone is, how big another child is.

The afternoon class was a surprise. They actually wanted to learn English and even tried on their own to speak to me in English. I hope they all do well on their exam. I need to prepare them for either the TOEIC exam or the BULATS. I'm a little worried for the first class because their skill level is a bit behind the afternoon class's. Actually I have a person in my morning class that is hearing impaired. Since she walked out in anger the first time I need a way to keep her around and actually help her learn the next time she is in class.

I had about 3 or 4 hours to kill before my evening class (this feels like I'm working at Casey's Bar and Grill again) so I went back to SME Education Centre. Mr. P L Chan still had a problem with peeling skin (he got sunburnt badly) and it was looking as gross as ever. I stressed the importance of moisturizer. I also found out it was one of the girl's last day there. I was helping her correct a few fliers. Kammy is a friendly girl who will be heading out to work in Sha Tin. Not at Snoopy land, but in some plaza where there is a candy or snack store. She is good friends with another employee at SME Education; they've been friends for over 16 years. I don't think this is the usual case but just like Ada and Gloria, they've kept some really long friendships. I think out of the friends that I really associate with, I've known Arthur the longest (about 8 years now).

Evening class was really casual tonight. Almost all the guys arrived early or on time for class. This is a first it usually never is like this. One of the guys, Andy, really wants me to go boating with him and his friends and I finally agreed. My budget is really tight but this is a big chance to increase my network in Hong Kong so it might be worth the sacrafice. Not that he is a bad person to know, but more along the lines that I am not in a good finacial position. Especially if you consider that I probably need to buy a new phone. I have my eye on a new motorola (v270) due out in mid September.

As a class we headed out to eat Japanese food. It was a great time to talk and network. They asked their other teacher to come out as well, Peggy, and afterwards she asked if I was interested in teaching at a couple of other locations. I expressed interest and we exchanged numbers. Very productive as a day so I was quite happy heading home. Maybe a bit too happy, I've been dying to get back into breakdancing. While I was standing at the platform I suddenly felt the need to break listening to the Beastie Boys on my ipod shuffle. If you're interested in seeing my short lapse of craziness you can message me because I actually recorded it on my camera. Of course I choose an area where the majority of the people couldn't see me.

posted by Tempest7 @ 11:00