Time to Teach - 28th Aug 2006

Today, I was officially introduced to Minami Koko and its 400 students. I had prepared a speech in Japanese (check me?!) and first had to talk in front of the 30 or so teachers in the staff room and then my big speech in front of all 400 students! It was nerve-racking to say the least but I got through it without too many mistakes and for the rest of the day pupils were shouting "Maderin Sensei, Maderin Sensei" as I walked past them all! I also had my first class today and boy am I glad to have got that over and done with. It was a small class of 18 who had all chosen English as their elective, so were relatively keen. I told them about myself and they asked questions so I'm fairly happy with the way it went.

Visit school tomorrow in Nourin so fingers crossed the horses are still there... and in the same form as last week!

Mx
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello Madeleine,I know what you feel like since I often think I'm speaking double dutch to my second year and there's not 400 of them. There should be a space in our time table for teaching MFL: maths as s a foreign language.
Valerie says a big well done for settling in well.
Best wishes
Bill Clark

5:10 am

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