I started teaching classes this week!
While I am of course sad that I am no longer on paid vacation, I figure it's about time to start earning my keep around here. And I am definitely doing just that! I have 6 different classes, and each class meets twice a week, for a total of about 18 actual class hours. Now, 18 hours per week doesn't sound like all that much, but including all of the prep-work and whatnot required, it actually feels like quite a lot. I also have the blessing/curse of having pretty much complete control over my syllabus and teaching methods, which translates to having a fair amount of work outside of class (and, of course, phenomenal classes =)). I also have to get up for 8AM class, Monday through Friday. Ouch!
The students themselves are a fairly interesting crew, about what I would expect of a bunch of Chinese college kids. They somehow manage to be both shy and aggressively friendly at the same time (more on this soon). As well, my students are the first-year students who are not majoring in English, but still have a foreign English teacher. Which essentially means I have the worst English students possible in the school, which I believe was an assignment based primarily on the fact that I can speak Chinese. The students seem to like my classes, though, and I look forward to a good semester.
2 comments:
I think it's funny that in the first picture, all the girls are on the left and the boys on the right. Is that intentional?
Hahaha well done! I almost made a note of this in the posting itself. It is not intentional, but rather is a result of the college students here being about as mature as American middle-schoolers when it comes to the opposite sex.
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