Thursday, January 16, 2014

Day 15 Pizza Pizza 1/15/14

Today we didn't have to be to class until 1 pm, so we took advantage of this time by sleeping  in and applying to a nearby tutoring center. When we walked in we were greeted by a Thai man in his late teens. We asked him about job openings but he didn't seem to understand English to well, which took me by surprise since we were in an English tutoring center. He caught the drift that we were looking for jobs, so he motioned us to sit down and handed us both applications. As we were filling out our applications Jeff walked into the center and went up to the man behind the counter and conversed with him briefly. When he turned around and saw us, his reaction was strange,he nodded,gave us a smirk, and walked out of the building. The application took us a while to fill out, as it required us to answer questions about our teaching style and what approaches we would use in the class. We turned in our applications and went to grab lunch. We ate at a hole in the wall joint nearby;chicken fried rice for a dollar, cant beat that. At school we were given the day to plan our lesson for Monday.We had free range on what we wanted to teach the kids, as long as it was a vocabulary lesson that lasted for thirty minutes. I decided to teach the different parts of the body, Ryan went with animals, and Nick went with mode of transportation. While the three of us planned our lesson, Jeff was in his own world writing a long letter to someone. When he left the room to go to the bathroom, Moz walked over to look at his paper, and read part of it out loud. His letter was saying how he got "fucked by some woman, was robbed at a bar, and had a broken water heater." Moz seemed annoyed by the fact that Jeff was coming to class and not participating, but at the same time he didn't really enforce his participation. At the end of the course you receive a letter grade; I cant imagine Jeff receiving anything higher than a D.After class Ryan, Nick, and I walked to a book store near our apartment to find supplies for our lesson. The book store was huge. There were three floors and had everything you could possibly need as a teacher. They had art supplies, posters, toys, instruments, and books. I bought two posters of the body, and Ryan bought a poster board and some white board markers. After tthe book store we parted ways with Nick, and Ryan and I got pizza at a restaurant near our house. They had a special, buy two get one free. The pizzas were individual size and were decent in quality. They weren't anything fancier than a djorno pizza, but in a foreign country you cant expect much. From here we went back to our place and streamed Hunger games 2 and called it a night.

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