Week One is over! Man alive, it started out exciting and then got slow and then got slower and frustrating and then my counter part when to UB today and it went awesome if just a bit busy!
Today I taught for 6hours straight! I taught all of my classes the ABC's, 123's, and then Jobs (using the I do, You do, He/She does grammar as well as the differance between a/an). After that I got to go home for a whole 30 minuets before coming back to school and teaching 23 of the teachers english for 1.5 hours O_o. My throat is killing me, but it was a really great day. Also as this week was mad irksome at point I mentally compiled a pet peeve list to share with you all.
1. Variety packs that don't have variety. If I wanted one type of cookie I would buy one type.
2. Cursive. They teach it to you in the States and you don't use it. They didn't teach it to in Mongolia and that is all they use. Hence spending all week trying to learn Mongolian cursive.
3. Mother Goose. So what if I was born on a Wednesday, that doesn't mean that I have to be full of woe. Just what makes her think she can predict something like that anyway.
4. Dependency on plumming. My director forgot to pay my water bill and thus I have had no water for 2 days and will not get it until Monday. I'm trying to find a friends place to stay at.
5. Being single. Every new Mongolian I meet asks me if I am married. "No." Do I have a boyfriend. "No." Do I have children. "No." And how old am I again. "22" ..... YAAGAD???!?!? ("WHY?"). I feel a bit like a freak everytime this comes up. I swear I'm going to make up a husband just to stop the hassling.
6. Being 22. This is young for a teacher. I have students older than me. They say I should get married and have children. They don't want to play my learning games. I think I am slowly warming up to them though. One older woman even pushed a young boy aside today to get to the board first during the fly slapper game!
7. Being called Cass. Cass is a Beer name, not a person name. Sure they can't say Cassandra, and I tell them to call me Cass, but in Mongolia its just a silly name.
Oh this was a great week!!!!!! Now that its over, all those little bothersome things hardly seem bothersome anymore ^_^. And I am off for Chinese food.
More pictures up!
2 comments:
It seems to me that in Mongolia, from what you're saying, people get married younger. It's probably a cultural thing. Lol!
Glad you got my book!!! I didn't get the text message :/
Oh my goodness, you're just the cutest thing ever. I just love all your "peeves". And I love that picture! It's so sweet!
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