Friday, December 27, 2013

12/13/13: Slumdog

Breakfast again, yay! Good as usual, too! Thank goodness!

I took a bit or two back with me to the office, as well, even though I was definitely stuffed! But it’s all so good… anyways, I also filled up my water bottle in the cafeteria because we’ve been out of water since Monday morning at our apartment, and Nicole was out of town so we couldn’t quite contact her just yet. Tricky situation, but we’ve made do!

For some reason, Katie didn’t end up teaching! Lucky girl! But she was disappointed, they were one of her good classes and time is beginning to run out.

I taught still. Grade 5 loves blasting their music and dancing around before I arrive, and that gets a little insane. I don’t even know if they’re allowed to be playing it… I should probably find out… oh well. They were still a little insane but a little better than usual. Still not good enough for DVD time, mind you.

We ate lunch at the school and returned to the office, because we were again teaching Abby and Greg’s classes that day [they went on their anniversary trip!]. I began writing a piece of a story and on our own times we ended up watching that first X-Men movie to entertain us.

The first class we taught for the kids went pretty awkward- they didn’t really want to do a lot of talking and we couldn’t get them engaged at all. It was very frustrating, and there was no even ground with them. Still, they didn’t exactly misbehave so there’s a bonus for that.

We had an hour to ourselves after that awkward occasion, watching pieces of show and fiddling on our computers and such. Then, opposed to last time, we switched classes and I ended up teaching Abby’s Grade 8 class.

Katie’s went okay, except the tiny kid in the class was pretty cocky and stupid and bothering the class. Mine went all right- the kids were excited to try out a new teacher, but it did take a while for me to begin class and explain what’s up. Like last time, I pulled up a trivia game I’d used for my past classes. I had a kid or two complain because the questions were super easy, but that may be because I also use it for Grade 3…], but still there were some tricky questions and I taught them a new word or two!

They were good enough for a few minutes of DVD, so they pulled up The Golden Compass to end the class with, and overall it wasn’t a failure or anything bad! Yay! Dull, actually, but not terrible and that’s the important thing.

With no further obligations, we headed home to find something else to use our time with. We grabbed bakery bread on the way home, ran into a few students and had a few awkward conversations out in the streets, and then we were in the apartment!


Our laundry machine definitely gets a good bit moody because we put some clothes in and it only works on occasion. Afterwards we closed with Slumdog Millionaire, which sort of impressed us both. We fiddled on our own network connections and notebooks before calling it a night.

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