September 13th

Well, it's my third day of proper teaching (if you could call it that!) In Hong Kong the children have to choose and English name for themselves to go by. So far I've had an Elvis, Golf (yes as in the sport), Fortune, Lemon, Gash (really horrible I can hardly say it) to name but a few! In training I also had a frog and fanny!!! I hope these kids never come to an English speaking country and have to introduce themselves! I've had two S4 lessons so far today and they went slightly better than my initial lessons. Although I'm still having issues with technolgy. Yesterday, I went up and down five flights of stairs about 6 times in a bid to set up the powerpoint i'd prepared for the lesson. In the end I couldn't use it, but my class didn't show up anyway so oh well! I felt quite disheartened yesterday after a string of disasters. I'm really struggling to contain the s3 but i'm hoping that it has more to do with their hormones than it does my teaching..? It doesn't help that their is literally a typhoon going on outside today. By the time I got to school today I was soaked through, the rain was actually coming through my umbrella it was that wet! There's a typhoon storm level one warning, don't really know what that means, all I know is that when it's a red warning we don't have to come to school... I kept watching the news this morning with the vain hope that the storm would get worse. Mind you, compared to the rain at home this is a bloody monsoon, I have never seen rain like this. I thought this was meant to be summer?