Yesterday was my first day of school. I really enjoyed being in front of a classroom, enjoyed the banter with the kids and the feeling of teaching- asking questions, getting answers, doing excersises. I was really hyperactive, despite the lack of sleep and the heat, so even in those air conditioned classes I was sweating buckets. It was all going really well until the listening class. These generally are the ones that go wrong anyway, when you're relying on CDs and players. And the classes at this school are doubly difficult because you have to have all the right paper, and give each of the students a test, and put them in the door, then give them a different test, and put those in the door and then do the rest of the lesson on a different piece of paper. So of course muggins here brings all the wrong tests, all the wrong paper, generally getting everything wrong, and makes a massive confusion of everything. And this was only compounded when the next listening class I was timetabled to do (which I had prepared for in the break) was actually a higher level, so I had all the wrong paper. Again. Miserable. But, on the plus side, I went for spicy pork spine soup and a few glasses of wine with the other teachers, and that was a good way to let off steam!

Today was much better- I really feel I learned from the mistakes I made and put them into practice- preparation, preparation and all that jazz. ANyway, time for me to sleep...