So, I’m ending my ‘holiday’ the way I started it; isolated and spending too much time in my room.
The school will commence again on Monday. I’m as apprehensive about it as I was when I came here in September last year, although this time, I am a smidgen more prepared.
I actually invested my time and money wisely, and during the course of this holiday completed i-to-i’s On-line TEFL Course. Well, nearly completed it.
One module requires some observation from a CD-ROM which I haven’t received yet. I’m hoping it will arrive very, very soon. My teaching knowledge was not as shockingly little as I thought. My only real lack was that of execution. My planning was sort of almost correct, but then fumbled on the delivery.
I have much to mend now as I transgressed on the most fundamental rule of the classroom: do not scream at your students. I might have done this in a few of my classes and now need to rebuild that rapport. But it ain’t gonna be easy.
Nothing much else has happened. My Ex-wife SMS’ed me about some docs she needs for the divorce proceedings, which have been moved from 17 Jan to 15 Feb.
I spent a day with B, another foreign teach from Ghana, trying to get her enrolled on that TEFL course, but she has no credit card, so it’s a bit more complicated. She’s a difficult person to be with, and I can’t exactly put my finger on why.
Afterwards, we had dinner with King and Eleven, B’s friend. King, the King of Contradictions, acted very funny around her. Like a little boy in love. Hehe.
Also made too much eye contact with one of the staff at KFC. A small girl with a BIG smile. Too cute. But after that I haven’t been back to the KFC again, as I think I might have drank too much coffee.
And for the rest, I’ve watched ALL the new, and most of the old DVD’s that I haven’t seen at that shop which I rent from. These last few days have gone quick and slow, at the same time.
I need to go draw up some lesson plans so that I don’t stand around like a monkey again and give them ‘reason’ to deduct my salary. Sigh.