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August 30, 2001
Tomorrow
Tomorrow it starts! 7:10 am tomorrow morning my first class begins.
This has been a week of exploration and meetings. I spent the first couple days wandering around the city with other ESIers. Wednesday was the opening ceremony for Trefort. All schools around here do it I guess. All the students dress up in their finest duds and sing the national anthem (called the "Hymnus") and the Principal gives an inspirational message. It's kinda neat. Then we met a lot of the other teachers. Today we evaluated the 9-Ds. These are the freshmen that are going into the bilingual program. The Hungarian teachers gave them a written test and we helped with the oral evaluation. We needed to split the kids into beginner, intermediate, and advanced groups. There are 34 kids. We will all spend time teaching all the kids, but we are trying to let the kids have one primary American English teacher and one Hungarian English teacher. I've got the 10 beginners with Gyongyi (one of the Hungarian English teachers). Dave has 12 intermediates, and Parker has 12 advanced kids. So, I have the beginners 8 hours, Gyongyi has them for 8 hours. Then we swap, so Dave has them for 2 hours and Parker has them for 2 hours. I have the beginners and the advanced for 2 hours a week too. If that doesn't make sense, you can just look at the schedule instead.
OK, I need to go finalize some lesson plans and get to bed. Pray for me please.
Posted by neal on August 30, 2001 03:51 PM