It's been quite a day here at COCO-MOMO Depot. Therefore this will be short & sweet. I felt a bit of guilt by not keeping up the blog, so here you go. Appreciate!
Morgen is writing her postcards. I am mostly thinking. Staring at my computer thinking. Listening to POE. Staring.
I am so completely drained right now! Class started on Monday, it was great, and has been every day since...only two days since but you get the picture... I feel as if I can relax juuuust a little bit for the first time this evening. Today I "taught" my first class. Not just one man in a conference room. But THREE people; in a classroom! Wow! Ha. It was more fulfilling than I had expected. I absolutely loved interacting with these three women; Jana (yana), Vera, and Blanka. And amazingly in the past year I have somehow overcome my fear of public speaking...the only part that I was nervous about was the fact that I had six other people staring at me, judging every move I made...MORGEN of course was one, the other five trainees and our instructor Keith.
The criticism wasn't bad at all. I got great input on what I did wrong, and what I did wonderfully. As I had presumed before I began, it was of course my nervous rapid fire speech and self-deprecating humor that took hold of the audience. It made the students laugh, and helped them be put at ease. After all, they are the ones learning a new language right? Right. One thing I was told to work on was "don't slip into an accent". Oops...he...hehe. Yes, apparently there were a few times when speaking to the students in ENGLISH, I spoke with a Czech accent. I don't know how, since I've never tried. But...oh well, whaddya do ya know? :)
So...no Czech accent, continue to insert foot in mouth, and I'll be just fine. Now...it's 11:20pm. I'm going to bed.
We have late class tomorrow which means soooomeone gets to sleep in. That's me...incase you were wondering.
I will leave it up to Morgen to give you a more detailed blog. Muaahahaha.
Hezky Den!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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haha ;) I'm sure you were great, babe! I loved your update. Glad you are enjoying it so much!
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