I’ve finished teaching kids, possibly forever. On Sunday I “taught” six last classes, each one involving a couple of games and a protracted awards ceremony. For the last half hour of each class the parents were allowed into the classroom. The fact that I can now bear three hours of scrutiny from mostly unsmiling Cantonese tai-tais without going to pieces even slightly probably marks an achievement, as does the lack of the relief I was expecting to feel. For a couple of the classes I even feel a little sorry that they have ended – both went perfectly all term and I think I actually did a good job of teaching them. Even the two troublesome classes in the morning ended well, maybe due to two of the three possible A.D.D. cases being away. Before I get carried away with congratulation for myself though, the last class of the day ended as it started – a complete failure. Something just didn’t click from the start and it was only out of a guilty feeling of partial culpability that I didn’t fail half of them.
Tomorrow is my last adult class, barring unexpected extra ones I may be given over the next two weeks. The end of my time here is getting very close indeed.
Topics
- 2011 tracks
- 2014 tracks
- 2015 tracks
- animals
- austria
- baozi
- Beijing restaurants
- berlin
- books
- brighton
- britpop
- britpop nuggets
- cambodia
- china life
- china questions
- china travel
- chinese food
- chinese language
- chinese literature
- compilation
- croatia
- czech republic
- estonia
- film
- finland
- forgotten 90s bands
- france
- hong kong
- hungary
- internet
- italy
- laos
- latvia
- les rougon-macquart
- linguistics
- lithuania
- london
- ltsb
- macau
- manila
- meat in popular music
- mind your language
- mongolia
- music
- Netherlands
- photography
- photos
- photoshoppery
- podcast
- podcasts
- poland
- politics
- portugal
- prague
- pulp
- religion
- rip
- russia
- scumhampton
- slovakia
- spain
- sport
- swimming
- tefl
- thailand
- the cabin fever
- things in china
- TV
- uk life
- video
- videos
- vietnam
- wales
- weird food
- worcester
-
Recent Posts
- Wet Markets 21/04/2020
- What are the Seven Wolves? 11/04/2020
- In a Pickle 21/03/2020
- Centuries of Sound 23/10/2017
- I probably have to write something about the bizarre Princess Diana statue garden in Nansha 31/01/2017
- 75 Tracks From 2015 16/01/2016
- The Floor 10/12/2015
- Chinese Condom Brands 08/11/2015
- Britpop Nuggets Part Three: Long Live The UK Music Scene 22/10/2015
- Britpop Nuggets Part Two or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Tolerate Northern Uproar 28/09/2015
Archive
Popular Today
Recent Comments
Miles Riley on Arbitrary Number of Shorter So… Delia on Forgotten 90s bands – Ph… Laurel C on … Jaka on Equally Divided Europe haonowshaokao on Britpop Nuggets Part One: Some… Blogroll
Bonus
China
Music
People
Categories
- diary (782)
- food tube (27)
- journalism (4)
- language (1)
- literature (9)
- music (97)
- podcast (23)
- things in china (15)
- video (1)
-
RSS feed
Last.fm weekly chart