Our hero hatches a get-away plan
Nope, it's pretty much only getting worse.
Today's exciting programme of events: a soulcrunching 'workshop' with a couple of cheery Singaporean missionaries, followed by a totally ineffectual one-hour 'English lesson' with the local high school, where the students already have experienced and capable native English speaking teachers (a whole family of American missionaries who wear bobby socks and conservative length skirts and hairties), who we just displaced into the hallways for an hour, only to find we had too many teachers in each class to teach properlly and too many ideas, and not any clue as to the level of their English ability, and no time to actually get anything done.
I am almost about to smash my head in with a rock.
don´t do that little chris. the head with rock thing. although i am unsure of what exactly you can do, i would recommend not smashing things. it always goes horribly wrong in the end.
ReplyDeletelove to you.
hooray for head smashing!
ReplyDeleteyes, i feel your pain. for completely different reasons, but oh well. hope ure ok anyway.
Why beat yourself up at all, you highlight the decent english lessons the kids are getting, and the "holiday" that the hard working teachers got. Good stuff, keep it going.
ReplyDeleteChris,
ReplyDeleteI know you're over it now, but after an utterly frustrating day at the education space where I teach, I just want to say that I understand. You see, at YouthBuild, there are 7 teachers for the, on average, 5 students who show up everyday. Sometimes only 2 students show up. When that has happened, my supervisor has cancelled school without even consulting the teaching team. As though 7 available teachers with nothing better to do couldn't ably teach very meaningful lessons to 2 students! Argh!