Righty-ho everyone.
I'm back! As you can see from the title, I am fulfilling an obligation. I am, infact, behind schedule, if time has ticked at all since a certain oral contract which you may or may not have read about recently. Or not that recently.
I am grateful to the previous post, as it gives me a point to start at.
Chinese classes. Favorite subject, naturally. I don't think I would have chosen that particular strategy for teaching and learning languages. It focuses more on learning phrases than words by themselves. But I am no expert on chinese. yet. ;) I do appreciate the large amount of practise we get. That is a bonus.
Making friends. Had a novel experience a week or two ago. We were at a Praise and Worship gathering of a few residences, and a girl randomly turned to me and said that she feels she should tell me that I will make friends this year. That had been on my mind for a while, actually. I mean, it's one thing to meet people. It's quite another to meet the kind of people you can be lifelong friends with. I was really pleased that Elohim would use someone to speak to me.
Getting my degree. So far so good. :)
Soo... mission accomplished, blog post wriiten.
Today I became excited about teaching. I imagined what I could accomplish by really making an effort and looking further ahead. Seeing my pupils as people who are going somewhere, and seeing my role in getting them there. It's cool. Now, I don't see myself as a revolutionary teacher or whatever, but I saw that this can be a really cool profession.
I have heard from several sources that the beginning of first year is tough, and also that being a student is the best part of your life. So far I haven't really experieced the former. Only during Mad2, and that's because of sleep deprivation and overcrowding and overbusiness. It doesn't count. But otherwise I'm a very happy first year. Hmm, i wonder who to ascribe that to? i hope you can guess.
