Higher Obedience

Hello. Well after four long days of observation (meaning: I sat in the classroom, took notes, walked around, answered students’ questions and sat again) I finally taught. My cooperating teacher (CT) wanted me to observe for four days and I am glad they are behind me. I must say that all I learned through these days was a) The classroom routines, b) How boring the course content was to the CT, the students and myself, c) How students were immature and talked all the time, d) How my CT deals with misbehaviors. Lots of fun eh? I’m glad I’m in that school since I never really had to experience with classroom management before, it’s a good thing for me. I’m feeling a bit empty-handed when it comes to dealing with misbehaviors and I don’t necessarily agree or like my CT’s way of doing it, so it’s kind of interesting.

My first day went alright, the students were not particularly nice to me, although some were (some of them were actually hushing people saying, “Don’t spoil her first day!” I thought that was cute). What I liked most though, was to look through the door window and see another ESL teacher in the hallway looking at me with a big smile with her thumbs up “lipsaying”: “It’ll go well!”.

News News News! We just started a College and Careers group in my area (Verdun)! We were 8 people on Wednesday, but some people were “missing”. It’s nice. We’ll be going through the miracles of Jesus recorded in the gospel of Luke. It’s kind of crazy, Wednesday we were singing with a guitar, jambee, mandoline (only for a song) and the egg thingy. A girl brought her violin, crazy, I wonder about next week and how our neighbours will like us! Anyways, we’re making sure we don’t make much noise after 8 though.

Alright. Thanks for passing by. … Why do I thank you anyways?!