With two of my three big tasks completed and the third having to be completed in another country, life here, goes on as normal. Slowly.
I’m still struggling to maintain enthusiasm in my classes, but it’s important that I do so. As K rightly said, she will stay behind and she doesn’t want to hear people talk about how I fell apart in my last two weeks. Neither do I.
Valid point I guess, but it’s difficult to tolerate the complete non-co-operation of your students when you don’t have to. In my one grade 7 class, the only real problem class, where the students could really not care less, I have given myself to playing games with them. At least using language from their lessons. But even the games they find uninteresting. It’s a problem class though, because the exact same lesson works very well in the other grade 7 class. There are several peer groups in that class which are just too cool to co-operate, and they’ve convinced themselves that the foreign English class is a waste of their time, because it doesn’t count towards anything.
So, the World Cup started two days ago. I’m not really a fan and have even less interest in it because South Africa couldn’t cut it. In fact, that’s a little embarrassing, but the way they played prior to their failure to qualify, should have alerted everybody to the inevitable.
Having said that, I did stay up to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica. It started at midnight here and the first half was sufficiently exciting. But, by half-time, with Germany leading 2-1 and Costa Rica clearly loosing momentum, and my eyes weighing the weight of a football team, I couldn’t justify watching the second half.
Ironically enough, when I woke up the next day, they were showing the match again, and I woke up just before half-time. So, I could watch the second half, but as I thought, it was predictable, Germany ending up winning 4-2. No great surprise.
Anyway, now I’m off to capture some photos with the lovely K. It struck us the other day that we don’t have any photos of each other or together, so we will now go and remedy that.