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Monday night it rained all night, and it rained for most of yesterday (Tuesday). Today is Tuesday in the states, Wednesday here! Yay! Yesteray Hannah and I received the first part of our training as English teachers at EF (English First). We arrived at school at 12:00 and got a little tour of the teaching materials. Then at 3:00 Hannah and I sat in on Daniel's class of children. Daniel is one of the teachers that lives with us in the teacher's house. Daniel is a very good teacher, but of course has had almost one year of experience teaching here. His kids were very roudy, but he handled them well. At 4:30 I filled in for some an absent teacher administering a test. I gave a short listening and speaking exam to some 10-12 year-olds, and when they finished we headed down to the computer room. Funny English computer games! One about a barber shop where you are instructed to perform hair cuts and various things on customers, including combing a man's beard, whereupon the owner of the shop exlaims "He look funny!" I highly recommend this game, but I'm sure you will never get the chance to play it. Oh well, better luck next time. During this same time Hannah sat in with Wade while he taught a class.
At 6:10 Hannah and I each administered tests for adult business english in separate classrooms. The adults wehre cheating like crazy!! Aparently cheating isn't a no-no in Indonesia. It is however, a no-no at EF, so next time I will have to run around with a ruler vigorously slapping people. :P
After school we went to the open air market across the street- amazing! A ture bazzar. We picked up a grilled whole yellowfin for a mere Rp 20,000 ($2.00) and journeyed home on the taxi and cooked up some yummy yellowfin stir-fry. Soy sauce is an imported luxury here- $3.00 per bottle (more than our fish). But, we bought it anyway. Soon, very soon, I will make banana bread in a makeshift oven. Just have to wait till the bananas are ripe (they take a long-ass time to ripen here! Who would have guessed?).
We ate dinner late, and so went right to bed.
Today we have more of the same I expect, starting at 12:00. Another teacher living in our house arrived late last night, her name is Louise, and she is from somewhere deep in Australia because she has a flamboyantly thick accent.
Anyway, tomorrow Hannah and I will be transported to PNG (Papua New Guinea) for a short one-night holiday while our work visas are processed here. The hotel there is supposed to be very nice, as well as the food and the beach. We are looking forward to it!
Sorry there are no pictures here. It might be an impossibily. I'm still looking into it. Depends on whether or not they have a USB plug in these computers, and whether or not they'll let me stick something into it. Hmm, come to think of it, uploading an image to the internet here could take a considerable amount of time. Pictures only if you cross your fingers and you're really really lucky I guess.
That's about it for now!
A little Bahasa Indonesia for you: "Hati Hati" means "Be careful"
Bye!
-Nick
Monday night it rained all night, and it rained for most of yesterday (Tuesday). Today is Tuesday in the states, Wednesday here! Yay! Yesteray Hannah and I received the first part of our training as English teachers at EF (English First). We arrived at school at 12:00 and got a little tour of the teaching materials. Then at 3:00 Hannah and I sat in on Daniel's class of children. Daniel is one of the teachers that lives with us in the teacher's house. Daniel is a very good teacher, but of course has had almost one year of experience teaching here. His kids were very roudy, but he handled them well. At 4:30 I filled in for some an absent teacher administering a test. I gave a short listening and speaking exam to some 10-12 year-olds, and when they finished we headed down to the computer room. Funny English computer games! One about a barber shop where you are instructed to perform hair cuts and various things on customers, including combing a man's beard, whereupon the owner of the shop exlaims "He look funny!" I highly recommend this game, but I'm sure you will never get the chance to play it. Oh well, better luck next time. During this same time Hannah sat in with Wade while he taught a class.
At 6:10 Hannah and I each administered tests for adult business english in separate classrooms. The adults wehre cheating like crazy!! Aparently cheating isn't a no-no in Indonesia. It is however, a no-no at EF, so next time I will have to run around with a ruler vigorously slapping people. :P
After school we went to the open air market across the street- amazing! A ture bazzar. We picked up a grilled whole yellowfin for a mere Rp 20,000 ($2.00) and journeyed home on the taxi and cooked up some yummy yellowfin stir-fry. Soy sauce is an imported luxury here- $3.00 per bottle (more than our fish). But, we bought it anyway. Soon, very soon, I will make banana bread in a makeshift oven. Just have to wait till the bananas are ripe (they take a long-ass time to ripen here! Who would have guessed?).
We ate dinner late, and so went right to bed.
Today we have more of the same I expect, starting at 12:00. Another teacher living in our house arrived late last night, her name is Louise, and she is from somewhere deep in Australia because she has a flamboyantly thick accent.
Anyway, tomorrow Hannah and I will be transported to PNG (Papua New Guinea) for a short one-night holiday while our work visas are processed here. The hotel there is supposed to be very nice, as well as the food and the beach. We are looking forward to it!
Sorry there are no pictures here. It might be an impossibily. I'm still looking into it. Depends on whether or not they have a USB plug in these computers, and whether or not they'll let me stick something into it. Hmm, come to think of it, uploading an image to the internet here could take a considerable amount of time. Pictures only if you cross your fingers and you're really really lucky I guess.
That's about it for now!
A little Bahasa Indonesia for you: "Hati Hati" means "Be careful"
Bye!
-Nick
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