Another Crazy Week
Hi everyone,
Another mad week at work. At the moment we just have so much work available. I have hired 3 new teachers in the last month and still some days we seem to have no one to work, and that means I gotta do it. Being at the top of the pile has its advantages most of the time but when push comes to shove and their aint no one else to do the work, then it lands in my schedule.
I taught a 14 year old girl this afternoon. I hate teaching teenagers. They have no interest at all. Some stupid too rich parent decides their kid can't speak good enough English at age 14 or 15 and decides to invest big cash with Berlitz. No one asks the kid what they want!! The girl today has no life, she spends all day at school and then studies in the evening. Her plan for the wekend is homework, homework homework - sad sad sad!
Anyway, only 2 weeks to Ghana, man do I need a break. Is hell cold here again and snow made a triumphant return this week! Forecast is for more on the weekend, better than rain I guess.
Missed out on tickets to both the movies we wanted to see this weekend, but got tickets for Hanoi Rocks. Now this should be interesting, they have moved to a smaller venue - capacity about 100!! And I just read today I can get 2 for 1 tickets now! Pity we already have them..it has bee that sort of week.
Tonight we are off to some Gay/Lesbian film awards night. A friend has free tickets, if nothing else I'm sure it will be interesting, stay tuned for a review later. Later.....
Sounds like the 15-year-old Taiwanese girl that I tutor.
EnglishÂ… TutorÂ… Ha! I\'m grammatically ungrammatical!
This is the third year I\'ve been doing it now. It\'s a favour for a friend.
She\'s passing her exams, although the unfamiliar texts (POETRY, etc) always give her trouble. She aces Shakespeare, though ...
She can speak good English. She just has no concept of slang. And she has no interests outside of school. All she does is homework. Sad.
D-Man, NZ.