Senior Week

... in St. Petersburg. During the program break, March 27th to April 2nd, I will be traveling to Rome, Italy. Once the Russian program is over, I will be returning back to Stockton, California for the summer and my senior year at University of the Pacific.

... after 16 classes last week so heavens knows how I will be after a marathon 22 classes this week. I have all the Senior 1 classes this week. Had the first 4 this morning, we are now taking our siesta and then I have another 2 this afternoon. Working on ...

... flopped. I did a stupid VOA listening exercise which was truly boring even to me. At least for Senior 6 I used it to launch a lesson the following week on direct and indirect speech (next blog entry). For Senior 4 the whole thing was largely irrelevant, ...

... second week which will be great if they dont start changing my schedule!! My class schedule for this week has been good, I've had Senior 2 this week and so far have taught 12 classes out of 16. Next week I will have Senior 1 but they haven't sorted out ...

... date tomorrow night. With only a few classes left in the term, I had to think of what small topic to teach Senior 6 and Senior 4 this week. I went with "clauses of purpose" for S6 – using “such…that…” and ...

... . It was so fun to see her now as a Senior and after she too had an incredible abroad experience studying in Aussie. My senior year college roommate Shannon and her husband Jason drove out from AZ for the weekend and it was so wonderful to see them!! On ...

... the Senior 2 student which are almost the oldest students and are comparable to junior in highschool. Willie is teaching all of the Senior 1 students and a couple classes of Junior 1. And poor Alissa has the rest of the Junior 1 students which might be ...

... . I had my cultural training today and was trying to work through why it is so hard to work with them (besides their senior management setting a very bad example, the totally hierarchal structure that means no decision can be made and the boss is too busy ...

... time, the week will be broken up by a 1-week holiday break (Monday-Wednesday the first week, Thursday-Friday the second week). The Senior 1 & 2 students continued to be on holiday, while the Senior 3 students are doing their final studying for their ...

... provides assisted care for the elderly.  He was impressed with what he saw.  We also found out that if a senior's resources are expended, then their children are required by the state to contibute up to 50% of their disposable income, after ...

... three of us.     When we arrived we were greeted by some of the teachers of the children, who were actually Shantanu's senior students, and driven to the guest house where we would be staying. It was nice to get out of the busy city and to ...

... drills running over and around bags.  After jumping in and running one set, Tisma yelled at me and pointed to all the other senior team players on the other side of the field running shuttles.  I jogged over as they were about to take off.  ...

I visited the Jersey Shore with a handful of friends for their senior trip and I had a better time than my senior trip a year earlier! ...

...  a little bit of luck though based on a connection I made before leaving the US.  There is an exiting company Senior Manager who is returning to the US at the end of April.  She has an apartment, car/driver, housekeeper and all ...

... the momentary embarrasment. After this, there was a special welcoming lunch for all of the new teachers (including myself) with the senior members of staff. We ate a dinner of traditional Korean dishes in silence, as nobody spoke English and the other ...

... that they respect what they perceive to be no-nos in the American culture-and I actually think that some people get lectures from a senior person who is married to a British man about what is proper in the U.S. Early in the week, one of my colleagues ...

... still arriving when we got there but there was an increase in numbers. We now had double the numbers and there was now a class of the senior group that had no teacher, so I got the job. With 5 mins notice I began looking at the material. Now I have to ...

... ; they have a wicked sense of humour over here!  I had one beer, and didn’t want to repeat last week so I just asked for a Sprite but the senior manager insisted on a free beer so I didn’t turn it down. He also offered me a free cigar, ...

... .  It is now free and has lots of paths and things to do.  Kiddy rides for the kids and places for the senior citizens to relax and play cards.  It was packed with people.  We watched a couple of the performances but my Chinese friends ...

... , we were at the restaurant for an hour longer than expected! The father is a development consultant for universities. The son is a senior-to-be in high school. They are on holiday together in South America for a month, and we enjoyed sharing trip ...

... a lot more prepared than I have the last two weeks, but of course there are new things for me to do this week.  I am grateful to one of my senior teachers who has given me some lesson plans for this week as well as the use of her syllabus to help me ...