Rose and Sam's Excellent Adventure

Hey kids,

Thought I’d (OMGSUBJECTPRONOUN!) write a little about last night’s expedition.
Rose and I had our first prac session at the Teach International HQ in hay street, Perth.

We didn’t know what to expect really and I was dreading it was going to be a hype-over-motivation festival with exclamation marks after each sentence. (ergo, most of their documentation).

I was pretty pleasantly surprised at the lectures though. I went in thinking “shit, I know basically no one here and I have to pretend to be positive and happy around these shitbags” but the lecturers gave us a bunch of activities (in the framework of “this is what you’re going to have to do with students in a new classroom”) to break the ice.

It was pretty effective and we did a bunch of them through the night. It wasn’t school camp style ice-breakers thank Christ (Um, yeah. Thank’s Christ. GG!) and didn’t condescend us too much.

The lecturers, Andy and Couragous Chris were very experienced TESL teachers and were good speakers. There’s much more than meets the eye with this Chris character. He reminds me of Jello Biafra and I’m nearly positive he’s a closet genius.

After the first prac lesson, I feel like the monstrous task of actually teaching English to people who don’t speak English is not only possible, but with time can be a gag-festival of epic proportions.

The lessons go from 18:00-22:00 Wed, Thurs & Friday and then 10:00-18:00 Saturday & Sunday.
Sunday we actually deliver a lesson to some people (read, border jumpers. no, I jest) who can’t speak English. This is totally fucking with me and will scare me shitless until I’m up there for a few minutes.

I mean. Teaching English. What the fuck do I know about English? lol These Russians better appreciate this shit I’m doing and furnish me with a shiny ak-47 with a few clips of FMJs otherwise I’ll be pissy, and train at least 3 of them wrong… As a joke. (Hi Steve!)

Cooked dinner for tonight and getting ready to go to day 2. Will write about it tomorrow.

Ciao bitchezzz!!!11

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