As far as lessons have been concerned, it's been fun. I've played a some word games (Jimmy's Island and How Many Giraffes - a throwback to my hostel days) with my more advanced classes, and done a general knowledge quiz (Indonesians seem to be really bad at Geography - no, Paris is not in South America) but I've had good students with interesting questions. With my teenage class I talked about sports, and then used kung-fu to teach punctuation (this involved everyone standing up, doing chops and punches and yelling ha! or hwaaah! at the grammatically correct point) that was very fun.
The kids' classes are a different matter entirely, its closer to working as a security guard in an insane asylum than teaching, no time to relax at all. I left a class for one minute to get some paper, and when I came back they had turned the light off and started screaming and fighting! However, in one of the classes I invented a superhero (dlatego jestem bohaterem) to help talk about fancy dress costumes, so I can take the good with the bad.
The owner of the school is friendly, and on Thursday organised a teaching workshop, which was pretty good, I learnt a few things about the theory of teaching and how to control riotous children, and also a few useful tips on Indonesian culture.
So it's now Friday, and I have one more lesson to teach before the weekend!
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