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I hate being sick.
Even worse, I hate being sick and being at work.
And even worse, being sick with a sore throat when my JOB is to talk.
Also, I am under my kotatsu once more. No, my heater works just fine, it's just... COLD here. I came home and turned the heater on, turned the kotatsu on, hid most of myself under the kotatsu... and haven't been able to convince myself to leave it. You know, people sometimes say that a lot of stuff goes on under the table in Japan, and they'd be completely correct.
Anyway, I had 5 classes today, and NONE of them had an even number of students. That just sucked, because I had to actually do a lot of talking. Normally, what I do for teaching is, I start off a class by presenting a grammar or language or vocab point for the day, and then I pair my students up and give them a whole bunch of activities to do to practice that point in various ways, and we'll usually listen to a conversation on a CD and read it aloud in pairs as well. I'm not SUPPOSED to talk, I'm supposed to listen and guide and answer questions, for the most part. BUT, if there is an odd number of students (or only one student or a private lesson) I have to do a lot more talking, because I have to be part of one of the pairs. Which kept happening today. And I tried my best to make the student talk as much as possible when I was in a pair, but still, they like to ask me questions too. But by the end of the day my throat was really faltering, and my voice sounded low and flat, and I was even coughing a little. I explained that I have a cold and apologized a bazillion times, but... yeah.
Still debating whether I'll try to go to a doctor tomorrow if I don't feel any better in the morning. Argh. I think I could manage it in Japanese just fine -- having looked up that "nodo" is "throat" -- but I dunno, I'm just sort of scared of doctors. Someday I'll have to accept, of course, that my body can't just bounce back from any sickness on its own, now that I'm not really all that young anymore. But for the time being I still try to believe that.
Quote of the day, during a guessing game in class:
Student [rolls 'what' on the WH-dice]: "What... did you bring back as souvenir from there?"
Me [talking about a trip to Toronto]: "Hmm. Beer. And donuts."
Student: "Did you go to... visit Simpsons?"
Even worse, I hate being sick and being at work.
And even worse, being sick with a sore throat when my JOB is to talk.
Also, I am under my kotatsu once more. No, my heater works just fine, it's just... COLD here. I came home and turned the heater on, turned the kotatsu on, hid most of myself under the kotatsu... and haven't been able to convince myself to leave it. You know, people sometimes say that a lot of stuff goes on under the table in Japan, and they'd be completely correct.
Anyway, I had 5 classes today, and NONE of them had an even number of students. That just sucked, because I had to actually do a lot of talking. Normally, what I do for teaching is, I start off a class by presenting a grammar or language or vocab point for the day, and then I pair my students up and give them a whole bunch of activities to do to practice that point in various ways, and we'll usually listen to a conversation on a CD and read it aloud in pairs as well. I'm not SUPPOSED to talk, I'm supposed to listen and guide and answer questions, for the most part. BUT, if there is an odd number of students (or only one student or a private lesson) I have to do a lot more talking, because I have to be part of one of the pairs. Which kept happening today. And I tried my best to make the student talk as much as possible when I was in a pair, but still, they like to ask me questions too. But by the end of the day my throat was really faltering, and my voice sounded low and flat, and I was even coughing a little. I explained that I have a cold and apologized a bazillion times, but... yeah.
Still debating whether I'll try to go to a doctor tomorrow if I don't feel any better in the morning. Argh. I think I could manage it in Japanese just fine -- having looked up that "nodo" is "throat" -- but I dunno, I'm just sort of scared of doctors. Someday I'll have to accept, of course, that my body can't just bounce back from any sickness on its own, now that I'm not really all that young anymore. But for the time being I still try to believe that.
Quote of the day, during a guessing game in class:
Student [rolls 'what' on the WH-dice]: "What... did you bring back as souvenir from there?"
Me [talking about a trip to Toronto]: "Hmm. Beer. And donuts."
Student: "Did you go to... visit Simpsons?"
