This morning we've chosen the groups we'll be teaching this year and, contra todo pronóstico (I think I should look this expression up.. it could be despite all predictions, also against all odds - but this would mean that it was difficult for me to achieve it, and it wasn't).. I'm gonna teach first year students, and two intermediate 2 groups in the afternoon, so YEEEEEES, I'll be working mornings and afternoons and be free to go home at 7 pm!!! and I'm free on Monday morning and Friday afternoon so what a loooong weekend!!! Can't believe it!!
The challenge for me is teach first year students. I don't know whether I'll be patient enough and I know for sure that patience will be the main ingredient of my teaching practice so, even though I've got sort of mixed feelings about it as I've always enjoyed challenges, I'm also cagada!!!
Isn't it ironic that I fear 1st years but not 5ths??
I'll keep you posted on this big issue, hahaha.
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Hi Ana,
Congratulations!!
I hope to see you soon.
Kisses
Hello Ana:
Don't worry, I'm sure that this experience will be very good for you, but I think that it'll be for them, too.
The best wishes,
Carolina Hermida.
The thing is I'm gonna miss you a lot, because you were so nice!! If you need anything, you know where to find me. Good luck this year and study a lot! Kisses
first year students are great fun! you'll play bingo with numbers, you'll spell not too difficult words, you'll play bingo again, but this time with past tense forms... only joking. well, no, this is all true, but I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it... and they will, too.
and hey, here's the great advantage of the situation: if they're really and truly beginners, they're like a big blank, and your only job is too insert the correct info. no previous vices, only an enormous nothing that you have to fill in.
didn't you say once that your true vocation was to teach three year olds? somehow, here they are.
Regardless of your students' level, fear is always a good policy. Probably, it will make you work twice as hard to feel at ease... And other teachers (not me) say that teaching beginners is rewarding.
Just get ready to use scissors, glue and colours (but not as weapons), play songs, watch Sesame Street videos, and jump and be physical. Hey, quit the gym. You won't need it any more.
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