Teaching is tough.
When you have no book,
when you have no one to tell you how to teach the vague material,
when you can only teach to a test you've never seen,
when there are twice as many students as you were expecting,
when you don't even really understand the title of the class, and none of the other teachers can explain it
("stylistics"), without using ridiculous words like "lexis". (I don't want to be rude, but the English instructors here could use a little conversation class as well as the students).
Nonetheless, I prevail to teach another day. Today I am actually teaching stylistics; I think I'm going to be cruel, and after the lame introductory exercizes, I'm just going to make my students write an essay for me. And then we'll talk about it, and my very high expectations of them, and then I'll make them stand in front of my camera so I can take video of them saying their names. If the videos are really winning, I'll post them to youtube.com, so you can enjoy/mock them as well.
I also took a few photos of really great big crows, and crow tracks in the snow, yesterday. Here they are.
You see what I really spend my time on, rather than class preparation...
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