Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching. Show all posts

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Those Days

You know those days when you remember how you thought your job would be, and then you realize how wrong you were?

Today is not that day for me. I took my wonderful sixth form students around the schools garden and we learned words like 'branch', 'twig' and 'blossom' while birds chirped. I felt like I was in a movie!


Friday, March 23, 2012

Oh the Joys!

Reasons why I love teaching in Ukraine:

Today I was supposed to have four classes. I arrived to school promptly at 10:30am, and was told that the class I was there for, had already been taught. So instead of teaching, I went to the cafeteria and had some chicken, tea and mashed potatoes. Then, I went to teach my next lesson. However, another colleague decided that she wanted to teach the class. So I returned to the cafeteria for another tea and some cake (I live a very classy life). Afterwards, the bell rang and I made my way to go to the sixth period, however, on the way, I bumped in to the 'class mistress' of the tenth form (who I was supposed to teach) and she said that she sent them all home. Instead of teaching then, I went to the teachers' room and practiced some Ukrainian grammar to try and be productive. Alas, the bell rang for the seventh lesson, upon where I was to teach eighth form German. However... the seventh lesson was promptly cancelled due to the teachers not wanting to be there anymore. Overall, I'd say I had a  very successful working day!