Day 20

Last day of the second full week :)

Today I had a chance to teach another lesson from The Important Book. This didn't go so well.. I taught two lessons back to back (in different classes mind you) and they were in the afternoon. The students were extremely rowdy and I could not get them under control.

In my lesson that revolved around The Important Book, I brought in pictures of things that are important to me and things that are important to my students. I used the pictures to prompt them to tell me was important in each and how the specific item is useful to us. After this introductory review of what "important" is, I had my students move to small groups and I gave each group an index card with a different thing written and drawn on it. I instructed the groups to discuss how the thing on their card is important and talk about how they use it. Some of the things on cards were a house, a dog, a pencil, and a book. This activity did  not go so well because my students have not worked in small groups very much and did not know what was expected of them.

After the school day was over I went home and crashed. I was so exhausted (mentally, emotionally, and physically). I just wanted to sleep. A few hours later one of the other male student teachers and I went to a Thai restaurant near Cuppa Coffee. I really enjoyed this place, the food was really good. I got a seafood noodle dish that had a lot of things I recognized-- including squid. I did try it but I did not like it very much.

Living here is teaching me how I need to continually look at the positivity in life and appreciate everything I have.

Have a goodnight!