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October 18, 2001
responsibility
I sent out a letter yesterday. In the letter, I said something about becoming more responsible because I'm a a teacher now. Well, I'm still a teacher, but you can forget about the "more responsible" baloney. Last night I proved that I'm still an above average procrastinator. I grossly underestimated the amount of time it would take me to prepare a lesson for my 13s, and I had to pull my first all-nighter as a teacher. I never imagined it would take 11 hours to prepare one lesson! Aye Carumba! As a student I stayed up all night many times, but this is the first time as a "responsible" teacher. I hope I'm not setting a precident for the rest of the year. As it turned out we spent the whole class finishing up a project from last week, so I never even used the lesson I stayed up to make. That's not bad though, it just means that I will be extraordinarily well prepared for next week's lesson.
I happy thing happened Monday. Several weeks ago I joined an international Bible study. There are about 10 folks in it; a couple guys from Cyprus, some Nigerians, a couple Hungarians, and a Norwegian. We decided that instead of studying the Bible, we needed to have a social evening to just hang out and get to know each other, so we went out for pizza. Now, you need to understand that Hungary is a nation of very quiet people. It's not uncommon for a metro car, with 50-60 people on it, to be completely silent. You all know that I am not a quiet person. This is a struggle for me. But Cypriots are loud too, and the Norwegian woman lived in The States for a few years. So we were loud. Very loud. We were so loud that people driving by in their cars were staring at us. It was wonderful to be be in the company of fellow loud people.
Posted by neal on October 18, 2001 05:13 PM