My first two weeks as a teacher!

Well my first two weeks as a “teacher” as i like to think of it have been interesting to say the least! 🙂 It hasn’t been to bad but i question if i should get paid for what i’m doing! I don’t know if i’m teaching or not 🙂 but i am trying!! Anyways the first week was just my “getting to know you” classes where, crazy enough, i just got to know my students. Who they are, where their from, what they do at their job and what not! It was fun, i have been very lucky to have some of the coolest laid back people ever!! I was even late by 30 minutes to one (b/c its out in BFE!!) and they were just like “oh well we’re busy can you wait a few minutes,” “um sure sounds good to me! ” Hey i get paid regardless 🙂 So my funniest moment during my first week would have to be when i played my “Getting to know the teacher” game, where i put numbers on the board that represent something in my life! Well i was running out of things so i put zero for the number of siblings i have, and when we got to it, one guy says “Your experience” Hahahaha!!! Oh my gosh!! Am i that obvious!! I just laughed and was like no that’s not it!

 So after surviving my first week we all celebrated over the weekend! It was great and the best story of last weekend is Saturdays story… So we all decide to go to a beer garden for some beer and to watch Soccer, and there is a really nice one in a park near us, but Doug knows of a new one for us to try so we say yeah. So Doug, Chris, Shaeffer, and i all head out and the others are gonna meet us later. So first we take the green metro to the yellow one. It is the craziest metro journey of my life!! Evidently there was some playoff game or something with the hockey team, and as we approach the first stop a mob of crazy drunk fans swarm the train!! it was insanity!! We all just got shoved in like sardines, by the riot police!! YES there were riot police!!! When i say it was crazy i’m not exaggerating!! So i’m just looking like a dear in head lights at the guys who also look like a dear in headlights (comforting :-)) Anyways luckily we only had to go one stop but we almost didn’t even get off the train b/c it was so cramped! I was some how the one in front and am trying to push my way through! finally Chris is able to get in front and then he helps me!! Like i said it was crazy! So then we take a tram. As we are on the tram i notice we are passing the very metro stops we just went by!!! Um Doug whats the deal do you know where we are going? He was like i only knew how to get to tram 9 by this way! Ok its a learning experience whatever!! So then we finally get to our stop and have to walk up a hill and through a park! At this point things are looking pretty familiar to me but i didn’t really say anything until we walk up to the very SAME BEER GARDEN that is down the street from us!!!!! So we have just taken two metros, one tram, and a long walk with the craziest metro ride of my life to be five minutes from where we live!!! It was funny at least!! Needless to say Doug is no longer in charge of navigating!!

So this past weekend was nice. Friday night there was a BBQ at the school. So we all went and that was a lot of fun! Free beer adn wine can’t go wrong there!!! But we got to get to know other teachers and the “newbies” as we like to call them! The new group who are in the tefl course now! They were pretty cool! So that was fun! And then on Saturday Erin, Chris and i went to a wine festival that was in a park near us!! That was pretty cool! Right now is the season for Burchek here! It is really good it is the state before wine becomes wine! Its a really sweet alcohol drink! So we had plenty of that and walked around, it was a goreous day!! And then on sunday i finally went to Kutna Hora and saw the bone church!! Very cool!! so its been a good couple of weeks but i gotta get going and get some lesson planning done!!! I miss you guys and can’t wait until Christmas!!! Love ya’ll!! 

Birthday Shout out!!!

This is for all you September babies that i love and miss!!!

 Happy Birthday Terri, Jess, Trav, and Spencer!! Love you guys and hope ya’ll have the best b-days ever!!!! I miss ya’ll like crazy!!!

The course is over!!:-)

Well it is Friday of my 4th week of the TEFL course and I feel awesome!! It’s finally over and my two teaching days went great this week so that is a plus!! I won’t know until next week if i past yet or not but i feel pretty good! I’m just going to enjoy being done this weekend and celebrate and move into my new place!! 🙂 

 So let me tell you my worst teaching experience yet… Well it was during the second week and i was teaching grammar of all things!! Relative clauses!! Not easy just take my word on it! So i was already nervous about making myself look like an idiot and as i’m waiting for my friend Luke to finish his teaching practice i look down and realize i have a hole in the crotch of my pants!!!! WHAT??? YES!!! Only me would this happen to!! luckily i was wearing black underwear with black pants so it wasn’t terribly noticeable, but still nerve racking!!! Anyways i got throught it the best i could and then bombed the lesson because i was so nervous i forgot my grammar!! Literally my observer said “That was crap” Thanks!! She was nice about it, but still,  ouch!! Well i survived and threw out those pants and moved on! Its still funny though!

Anyways sorry these take so long it is actually over a week now (9/12) since i first stared this blog. I did pass and am now a Caledonian Teacher! Its just been so crazy lately though with trying to figure out where my classes are and everything! I have to go to different companies all over Prague to teach! So it is kinda crazy! I have been lucky though because all of my students have been great so far so that is reassuring. i was actually really late yesterday because i got lost but they were really nice about it and were bsuy anyways so it didn’t seem to matter all that much! So my classes so far are good and i just have a few more then the weekend! I definitely have moments of “should i be here?” but we all do and we just support each other! My TEFL classmates are amazing and i have made soem amazing friends that makes this much easier which is nice! Last week was awesome! So school or lesson planning so we just partied and enjoyed it it was great and needed!! We had the best house warming party ever!! And didn’t get yelled at b/c our land lady rocks!! So i’m looking forwar to more of those!! There is definitley a Halloween Party in the near future!! Ok well i gotta get to my next class wish me luck!! Love you guys and miss ya’ll!! Take care and i’ll try to update again soon!!!