Goood Evening

I usually go to bed a half hour ago. But I can't seem to get myself to bed tonight. So here I am, I guess I can tell you about my day.

This morning I assumed the weather would be like the last couple days as it had begun to warm up even in this weird fog. But as I came outside it was fridgid, wet, windy, and rainy! And I was not dressed for fridgid weather. But I didn't really have time to run up to my 6th floor apartment and put on a warm coat cuz the bus would leave with out me and I'd miss my class. So all day I had to put up with people saying stuff like, You should wear more clothes. It got really annoying.

I didn't spend much time preparing a lesson last night, so I have to admit: this week is somewhat of a copout lesson. I am doing a little shpeel on St. Patty's day and then teaching them to play charades. It's a copout cuz It's super easy for me to sit back and watch them act and I don't do a lot of talking. Well, the lesson was ok. The charades didn't go as great as I'd hoped. These kids are too cool for school sometimes. They'd rather see me make of fool of myself then themselves. Once in a while there is a goofy guy who loves to entertain and he'll bring up the competition. I've decided to change things a little, which is usually the case as I can improve a lesson the more I do it. In that sense it's really nice I get to repeat lessons 14 times. Tomorrow I've decided to talk about gestures and body language before we go into charades. We'll see how it goes. At times like this I kinda wish I had a curriculum to follow or somekind of guidelines. I'm really just pulling ideas out of thin air and it kinda overwhelms me that I have like 16 more lessons to come up with. I know it'll be fine. Something always comes up, and the students always manage to forget things that don't go well and love me no matter what. They're great.

After classes Brenda and I went to eat at "Sunshines." We used to eat there almost everyday when Nigel was around, but now I think we've only been there like five times since. It's still weird. We did a little shopping after we ate. The streets were so bare cause no one wanted to be out in the rain. These sniffles probably tell me I shouldn't have been either! Brenda bought some funky clothes. She's gonna role play an American highschool student and have the students ask questions. If it works well, I'm gonna do that to. I bought some saltine crackers that I discovered taste just like home! Good ol' saltines and peanut butter!

I the cozied up in my freshly crocheted(sp) afagan in front of the tube and watched some DVD's of Frasier Episodes while doing a crossword and eating my saltines. Brenday came up and we went over an essay written by a Chinese student who went to an English summer camp in England last year. They wanted us to correct grammar so it can be presentable enough to post on their new website. They are building it now, but I hope to get the address soon. They have put pictures of all us foreign teachers there! (In action!) There were so mistakes in the essay we almost had to rewrite it!

After that I went down to Arthur and Anna's place to help out with an internet phone service deal. If they can get it to work right I will sign up and have really cheap international phone calls. Then Anna and I watched a movie together.

Then I did some more planning for tomorrow's lesson which begins at 7:45am. That means I have to wake up in like 7 hours. Why can't I sleep!!