My students always say ‘tomorrow, tomorrow’ when they mean two days from now. It’s so cute. The title of this post is referring to my promise to blog about Phnom Penh today. I didn’t get a chance to write today, so I’ll be doing it tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow.
I spent two hours grading papers tonight. Ahhhh! I’m thinking I need to change up my teaching methods… it seems as though the things I say go in one ear and out the other. Time after time we discuss, practice, discuss and practice again. I assign homework, they take it all home, write their papers [...]
I haven’t been posting much because it’s been a royal pain. It takes a few minutes to even sign into MT now. We have no idea what’s going on. Our server people are going to move us from our current server (which is in Asia and experiencing some difficulties) to one in America. I’m honestly [...]
Us native speaking teachers have been having Christmas parties at school for the last two days. We’ve really tried to make them festive and fun. The kids brought snacks and the school supplied drinks. Matt and I bought a big tub of mini candy canes that we gave out to everyone. Some of the classes [...]
As most of you know, Christmas is right around the corner. I’ve been having holiday activities in my classes for awhile now. We’ll study a bit and then move on to the fun stuff. We’ve made snowflakes (and hung them up all over the classrooms), ornaments (they colored some Christmas-ey pictures and glued them on [...]
Sione, my boss, informed us last week that we’d be having an open house for our Meysen classes this week. We were told to choose all the fun songs and materials that they know well to make ourselves look really good for the parents. I teach two Meysen classes but one of them isn’t really [...]
Today I looked down at my student just as she threw up. My first thought was, “Oh no! Jenny!” My second thought was, “Oh God, I’m going to have to clean that up!”
Who would have thought I’d still be having “firsts” in the third year of teaching here…
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