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....but GEOS students rule
One of my students went to Fukuoka on a business trip this week. He brought a box of cakes to class today as omiyage (this is like the third or fourth time he's brought us stuff, actually). The class was overall a lot of fun and very goofy, and that student made us all laugh so hard that my eyes started tearing up, seriously. (I had set up a game to be sort of amusing, but I had no idea they were all going to start cracking jokes and going completely far out there with it.)
Anyway, after class he wanted to talk to me for a minute. I was worried that something was wrong, but he said "I just wanted to tell you I got email from Becky." Becky is the teacher I replaced, who was very beautiful and very kind and everyone loved her very much. It was kind of bizarre having an inferiority complex to someone I'd never met for my first month here.
"Oh, that's great! I am sure you're really happy to hear from her."
"Yes. I was. But, she said to tell you that you must be a good teacher because everyone who writes to her sounds like they are very happy studying English!"
Awwwww.
One of my other students is off to New York for three weeks! She wanted to know if she should bring me back some bagels, completely randomly. I told her not to bother, because I know it'd be several days before she'd see me even after getting back, but it was sort of funny that she offered. Apparently one of the (other) former teachers loved bagels and she'd always bring back some for them. I said that I just wanted her to go speak English every day when she's in New York and that would make me happy.
I have this brilliant 16-year-old in one of my classes. (The fact that he is in one of my classes at all should already indicate he's brilliant, because native teachers only teach the upper-level classes at GEOS.) He stayed afterwards today for like 20 minutes grilling me with questions about usage of the past perfect progressive and asking how to use it (or not use it) in some passive sentence contexts (ie, "He had been recording our voices during the entire conversation. I didn't know that it had been recorded.") Anyway, the funny part is that this kid is totally not a geek at all, he's actually a track star at his school (he said he can run the 100-meter dash in 11.72 seconds) and he hates math and loves studying English. While I sort of wanted to go home rather than sticking around answering grammar questions, it sort of reminded me of back in college how Carl would do things like stick around after class asking Takahashi-sensei random Japanese grammar and vocab questions for ages and ages. Motivated students are great, though I wish I didn't have them all for my 9pm classes, because I'm usually completely dead by the time I finish.
Anyway, after class he wanted to talk to me for a minute. I was worried that something was wrong, but he said "I just wanted to tell you I got email from Becky." Becky is the teacher I replaced, who was very beautiful and very kind and everyone loved her very much. It was kind of bizarre having an inferiority complex to someone I'd never met for my first month here.
"Oh, that's great! I am sure you're really happy to hear from her."
"Yes. I was. But, she said to tell you that you must be a good teacher because everyone who writes to her sounds like they are very happy studying English!"
Awwwww.
One of my other students is off to New York for three weeks! She wanted to know if she should bring me back some bagels, completely randomly. I told her not to bother, because I know it'd be several days before she'd see me even after getting back, but it was sort of funny that she offered. Apparently one of the (other) former teachers loved bagels and she'd always bring back some for them. I said that I just wanted her to go speak English every day when she's in New York and that would make me happy.
I have this brilliant 16-year-old in one of my classes. (The fact that he is in one of my classes at all should already indicate he's brilliant, because native teachers only teach the upper-level classes at GEOS.) He stayed afterwards today for like 20 minutes grilling me with questions about usage of the past perfect progressive and asking how to use it (or not use it) in some passive sentence contexts (ie, "He had been recording our voices during the entire conversation. I didn't know that it had been recorded.") Anyway, the funny part is that this kid is totally not a geek at all, he's actually a track star at his school (he said he can run the 100-meter dash in 11.72 seconds) and he hates math and loves studying English. While I sort of wanted to go home rather than sticking around answering grammar questions, it sort of reminded me of back in college how Carl would do things like stick around after class asking Takahashi-sensei random Japanese grammar and vocab questions for ages and ages. Motivated students are great, though I wish I didn't have them all for my 9pm classes, because I'm usually completely dead by the time I finish.
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Nothing better than getting praise from your predecessor! Way to go!! =D
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