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December 23, 2003
Last night I had my first ever kids lesson. I had been wanting some change from the normal stuff I do so I decided (in July) that I wanted to do kids lessons. After a 5 month wait (which is really fast compared to other things), I finally got “trained” and had the lesson yesterday. Most people abhor the thought of doing kids lessons because there are some “special” kids out there that really make your life a living hell for those long 40 minutes. The teachers I’ve talked to who do kids lessons seem to really love it but hate the special kids.
For my first lesson, they handpicked a student who was described in her communicative ability test as, “the model kids lesson student”. She was 11 years old and was as bright as a 200 watt bulb. She was so smart and cute that the 40 minutes went by so quickly. Not only did she laugh at all my retarded antics, she used the language that was introduced too (that being four simple prepositions of “under, in, on, beside”). We played a couple games of Pokemon Hangman (ingenious new game concocted by yours truly) and Othello. I know they give really good kids for the first two lessons but wow, this 11 year old really impressed me and alleviated a lot of fears about teaching kids. I may soon learn to enjoy kids… *shudder*.
There are two more working days this year and then I’m off for 11 days. Eleven full resting days to ponder about the myriad of happenings this year and relax. There’ll be a semi-big party on Saturday with my Japanese friends (I’ll be the token foreigner!!) and some other odds and ends.
I’m going to Korea at the end of January with a friend. I just got the holidays approved and now I’ll have to buy tickets and shit. Should be fun though.
I’m bored today and no one is online. Sorry I missed your message Dennis, I was playing Red Alert 2 and I think I saw your message right as you logged off. Rats.
