Today, my morning class is still good and Elaine still ignores me. I still sweat like crazy. I got my technology to work so I can show video and do PowerPoint. Yay!! It really makes a difference as far as student engagement.
Today I taught half a period about 4th of July and wore red, white and blue.
So I teach 3 periods in the morning (40 minutes with a 10 min break in between) and then there's lunch. After lunch I have 1.5 hours to lesson plan and then I teach a different group of kids for 3 periods. During that 2nd period in the afternoon they bring us ice cream :) EVERYDAY. Today's was Mung Bean. Green. So weird!! Haha.
Whatever my teacher did ... My afternoon class was TOTALLY different. They changed the seating arrangement and separated the problem boys. They were really good today!
I am feeling better but still am overwhelmed at how little time we have to prepare. And they are squirrelly 7th graders!!
I'm so happy to have this guy Todd in our group. He kind of organized us to come up with one killer lesson plan that we can just all share with each other to help ease our work load. I love that!! Some people opted in. I think there are two who didn't. Probably cause they already have all their own stuff and don't need it. But everyone is pretty open to share what they have and offer ideas and suggestions. It's a good working environment.
Class is done at 4:20 and we jump on the bus at 4:40. But tonight we had a culture class. I guess we'll have 4 of them: knots, painting, calligraphy & paper cutting. Tonight was knots.
We learned to make Lucky Dolls. It was easy and very cute.
I loved our culture lesson and carry my doll on my purse now. :)
When we got back to the hotel, some of us went to the lake for a walk. It is such a pretty lake!!
We walk up and there are these groups of women dancing with same t-shirts and a choreographed dance. Then we saw a coconut vendor. He had a screwdriver and hammer and would poke a hole into the coconut and stick a straw in ~ fresh coconut water!! So we got one :)
We ended up walking about 5 miles. The lake is huge and the atmosphere changes as you pass different parts. We saw people digging for cicadas - yes, digging, cause they fall out of the tree and burrow. I guess they use them to feed chickens or birds cause there were a lot of people out there with flash lights. Reminded me of a grunion run or snipe hunting!
Then we passed Salsa dancers. Dancing salsa music with Chinese lyrics!!! And these roller blade/skate board things ... Lots of like 50 year old women and even like a 70 year old guy!!
We also passed a group of young kids. They were playing EDM and dancing, it was dark so I couldn't get a pic.
Got home, worked on my lesson a bit and sleepy time!!
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