I think this week at the school has been good, the students seem interested, teachers haven’t reported any incident, you know, when folks are a little high maintenance and the class is just a disaster. I’m actually looking forward to their final presentation tomorrow, because their project sure looks interesting. One thing that I’m not enjoying, though, is going there on Friday. Coming back to the days that I was the only teacher working on Friday — and for me that was actually the busiest day of the week with a group in the morning, phone classes at lunch time and immersion in the afternoon. But anyway, I might change the schedule for next week.
Speaking of which, I’m trying something new, as an experience, for next week’s immersion. Instead of having two classes in the morning and two in the afternoon, I’m shortening the class length so that we’ll have three classes each shift. I think it’s way better for everybody, the students don’t get tired and it’s easier to prepare the lessons and shorter tasks. Let’s see how it goes.
Tragedy in Haiti is all over the news. It’s really amazing that for several hours the media had access only to what was posted on social networking websites (now being called “social media”) — photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter were the only images available on TV until they were able to send their people to Haiti — an according to the Huffington Post AC360 was the first American journalist to get there, I’m not surprised at all.
So, obviously I’ve been watching the coverage on TV. Extensive coverage on CNN, and on FNC the only evening programme that has reported news was Fox Report. O’Reilly simply focus on where the money ended up since Clinton administration and trying to make the Executive Director for Doctors without Frontiers US admit that the gangs and thugs and drug dealers that rule Port-Au-Price are giving them a hard time, which obviously wasn’t the case. She was trying — trying, since the interviewee can never finish their commentaries, unless they’re Sarah Palin — to say that at this moment they have been able to do their work and as she wasn’t backing down he proceeded to talk to the other guy. Yesterday he had a guest on the show and she was definitely liberal and again the interrupting continue. When he mentioned that every other network is biased and only FNC was only reliable source for news, she said that folks should do their own “investigation” — by going online and having different sources — as opposed to relying on a single source. Obviously after this the interview was over. As to Beck, well, I’m not really sure if he knows where Haiti is.
I can’t believe tomorrow is Friday!!! But it’s gonna be a busy weekend for me because I need to prepare material for next week’s class — the guy who’s coming works in HR and I must get familiar with the vocab and also prepare tasks since this is the first time I’m using this material.
Today is Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl’s birthday. 41 years old. Man… I found this video on You Tube and he looks 18… Time is merciless!
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