GERMANY
Yeah, I know I've already titled one post 'First day at work' but I did fuck all that day. Yesterday was when I actually did stuff.
The first lesson was with the 11th grade, which is like 17-18 year olds (I think). We went over homework and talked about volunteer work and political activists and gap years and whatnot. Then I turned the mini-essay we were meant to do in lesson as homework and we talked about England in a little Q&A thingy, which only reinforced the fact that I know very little about Britain. But it was pretty good. Dare I say I made friends?
And after that I went to Frau Gorjew's* lesson, the one she'd promised would be a 'team-teaching' kind of thing, but which ultimately turned out to be "Max will lead this class with the material he was expecting to use with 2 or 3 students at a time, which lasted all of 10 minutes, while Frau Gorjew sits at the front and watches like a student". Clearly the Germans have never heard the phrase 'there is no I in team'.
And this second lesson pissed me off because I'd been feeling all teachy and inspired and had spoken lots of German, and then all of a sudden I was that English retard again, not really knowing what was happening. I got asked to translate 'honeycomb structure' and 'osteointegrated' into German for christs sake.
And then I went home and drunk some chocomel and wondered if chocolate milk could induce some kind of 9 month long coma. Yasser Arafat had it so easy.
Oh, and tomorrow is international Talk Like a Pirate Day! Who even thought of this? I tried using facebook in Pirate but it pissed me off after a week. Why is there a day dedicated to going 'Arrr' and stuff?
Brush up on your Somali, people.
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* 'Gorjew' is a fucking misleading name. Turns out it's not 'Jew' in the sense of 'one who follows Jewish ideals' (like the Christians. OOH! controv.) but is actually pronounced 'yev'. Gore-yev. Who'd have thunk it?
Yeah, I know I've already titled one post 'First day at work' but I did fuck all that day. Yesterday was when I actually did stuff.
The first lesson was with the 11th grade, which is like 17-18 year olds (I think). We went over homework and talked about volunteer work and political activists and gap years and whatnot. Then I turned the mini-essay we were meant to do in lesson as homework and we talked about England in a little Q&A thingy, which only reinforced the fact that I know very little about Britain. But it was pretty good. Dare I say I made friends?
And after that I went to Frau Gorjew's* lesson, the one she'd promised would be a 'team-teaching' kind of thing, but which ultimately turned out to be "Max will lead this class with the material he was expecting to use with 2 or 3 students at a time, which lasted all of 10 minutes, while Frau Gorjew sits at the front and watches like a student". Clearly the Germans have never heard the phrase 'there is no I in team'.
And this second lesson pissed me off because I'd been feeling all teachy and inspired and had spoken lots of German, and then all of a sudden I was that English retard again, not really knowing what was happening. I got asked to translate 'honeycomb structure' and 'osteointegrated' into German for christs sake.
And then I went home and drunk some chocomel and wondered if chocolate milk could induce some kind of 9 month long coma. Yasser Arafat had it so easy.
Oh, and tomorrow is international Talk Like a Pirate Day! Who even thought of this? I tried using facebook in Pirate but it pissed me off after a week. Why is there a day dedicated to going 'Arrr' and stuff?
Brush up on your Somali, people.
___________
* 'Gorjew' is a fucking misleading name. Turns out it's not 'Jew' in the sense of 'one who follows Jewish ideals' (like the Christians. OOH! controv.) but is actually pronounced 'yev'. Gore-yev. Who'd have thunk it?
