East is Relative

Foreign culture lessons; new links

I’ve posted a new entry all about my recent-and-future lessons called Foreign culture in the classroom at the Lost Laowai Blog. It’s my second post over there – please go check it out!

I’ve also added a few new links in the sidebar, to some fellow bloggers who have sent me messages since stumbling across my blog. Have a look at their blogs; they have some very interesting things to say.

It’s been an interesting week for me; I’ve had a few behavior problems, and sent two students out of the classroom for the first time for talking after I repeatedly told them to stop. To keep from being sent outside, they tried to apologize, but I held out. We’ll see what happens next week. Some of my most communicative classes were dead silent today. I’m in a funk about it – it’s one of those times that I get angry and think I should just quit teaching, but underneath my irritation, I know I love to teach. I think I just hate teaching English (which, let’s be honest, I knew in advance – that’s why I minored in History Education, not English Education). I’m soldiering on with this new lesson plan concept, though, and we’ll see if I can keep it going until the end of the term.