At about 1 pm today I started to get annoyed at the classroom full of kiddies who chat among themselves and play on their cell phones to the point of distraction, even during a test today. I need all my concentration to understand the language alone, and lately I've come to plead with the other students around me, "Please, I need to concentrate, I don't understand everything." And they will stop talking for a few minutes and then resume, and talk the rest of the day.
I cannot always sit right next to the teacher, as J suggested.
The class has 25 students total, but I didn't want anyone to see my filming (though they often screen-cap the whiteboard, etc and send it to the class' What's App group). That pooooor teacher. I had it bad, she had it worse today, in this heat, standing there with everyone chatting and playing on their cell phones. How rude! Then again, she only had the one day here in Mordor, we have another week of 8 hour days.
I admit, the classroom being over 90F every day, 8 hours a day has affected my mood. Also my stomach - I sometimes get sick. And we worked all though the weekend, not a single day off, which I think is unfair cuz one day would be nice to simply study all day.
I took that video after lunch, to show how we wave our hand fans to simply stay conscious in the heat, and how the kiddies disrespect the teacher. There were several conversations going on as you can see, and this is before it got bad and they started rough-housing, hitting each other with their fans. They're just out of high school and have no concept of real life and professional work environments, no, none.
J said, "Next time take a vid when it gets worse, and show the administrator." Yup, I'll do it. Cuz they are not going to become *better* behaved with time. I felt bad showing J the video during his summer break, disrupting his vacation from the little brats, but he just said, "Obviously in your school nothing happens when kids behave badly, in my school they get in trouble for using their cell phones and chatting."
One thing I am benefiting from, around the kids, I have almost zero fear of public speaking now. Almost every day I am called upon to speak to the class, usually in a group of 2 or 3 others, but today I had to speak alone (but from my seat) and I took it in stride, for the first time in my life.
I suppose I cannot be nervous when I'm repulsed, it turns out. *lol* This is in contrast to my panic attacks at the software companies where I had to speak, even in small groups. Hm!
OK I gotta go study now but wanted to say I am home for a couple days and just a few moments ago went to the pasture and whistled.
Mag and Bellis were on the other end of the 5 acres and Bellis raised her head and then dropped it again in resentment. The horse, he took two hesitating steps and then galloped up to me. I rubbed him all over. He smells soooo good! Has a few scraps and is thinner (cuz it's too hot to eat). But he seemed happy to see me, and then the donkey "let" me rub her backside and then she purposefully, for the first time ever, left me mid-massage. Passive aggressive, yes! Like a cat. "You leave us, so I don't love you anymore."
OK back to work.
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Good grief, the country that makes Mercedes-Benz doesn't have air conditioning. That is so primitive. How do people learn in such an environment? And I wonder how the kiddies will pass their tests.
That video brought out my frustration, from the POV of both a student and a teacher. When I was student-teaching, my supervisor would fail me for the lesson if a single student lost interest and did something disruptive. I learned to be a dictator, then moved out to a rural community where I was criticized for being too strict. I held lesser positions in the schools (parent volunteer, after school program coordinator, special education aide, substitute teacher...) in an effort to earn my own classroom as a teacher someday. They wouldn't hire me in that capacity, yet they had several teachers who would allow their classes to walk all over them, and the students who wanted to learn couldn't. I can't imagine hearing anything the teacher is saying above the din, nonetheless to speak German as a second language and have to hear. What really scares me is that these are your future life savers.
I would get so frustrated as well.
I would have not expected such disrespect. Tough enough to endure an enclosed heat box!
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