HI hi

I am making progress with the zzzzz's, so some of them can say Zoe,

some still say a mixture of goee and joey, its weird. But its my

personal aim to get them all saying the right thing.

Had a good day yesterday with the kids, starting to know their names and

they are helping me with the pronounciation. There is one teacher

here, an American, who has the mentality of the old colonial: "If I

speak loudly enough the natives will understand me"!!!!! really, I can

hear her when I'm at the end of the passage and she is teaching in the

class at the other end. At first it was funny, but now its just

annoying. She is possibly the worst teacher ever. She said to me that

in her one class there were some really smart kids and some really

stupid kids, so she figured the stupid kids were never going to get it

anyway, so she just taught the smart ones. can you handle that! I

implied that a teacher's job is to help ALL the kids. I dont think

she understood what I meant. If she were in my class I would think she

was one of the average to poor students.

Also it's weird because we teach the kids with set books and the little ones are given a new book each month, so to make it easier they made the books into months rather than numbers, and each month has a theme, December is obviously a Christmas theme. Now the thing is, that each class progresses at a different rate, so theoretically it's meant to be a book a month, some kids simply cant grasp all the material in a month so it may take a month and a half or two months in total to finish that book. And then some kids join the SLP later in the year and then a new class is formed and they get given January book no matter what month it is. There is a point to this guys, sorry its taken so long, but context is imperative. SO, yesterday all morning all we heard ringing down the passages was "Santa-Clause is coming to town" and "Jingle Bells". It was bizarre, two classes were on December therefore they had to sing ALL the Christmas songs, over and over again. which in itself I can handle, but not when its a mixture of Amercian nasal twang voice and little high pitched Korean voices singing words with an asian twist.

ahahhahaha.