I got my teaching job last summer and I remember quite well how I wished the summer would end soon so I can already start teaching. Haha. That was a year ago. Right now, I wish the summer would stretch longer so I don’t have to go to work soon. I still have a month [...]
[Continue reading...]the complaint
June 29, 2010 2 Comments
All of the teachers in the learning center where I work experienced some sort of complaints already and about two months ago, I also got my share. The complaint was: I don’t have a British accent. It was coming from a grandmother who sat twice in my class to observe me. Normally, children ages 5 [...]
[Continue reading...]the next step
June 13, 2010 Leave a Comment
In my last post, I expressed the negative feelings I have towards my job and until now I still have those feelings but I decided to something about it. Teachers here in Austria are paid well. They have very good benefits and very comfortable work conditions. I want that for myself too but that means [...]
[Continue reading...]the problem with my job
April 12, 2010 3 Comments
I am going to whine and I hope this is the last time. Semester break and Easter week came and went but I don’t feel like I’ve had a break from work for months (I would say years but I only started working last September). Honestly speaking, I am tired and I feel like giving [...]
[Continue reading...]this year will be a very busy year
January 27, 2010 4 Comments
I haven’t updated this blog for more than a month and based on how things look like at the moment, posts will be scarce for the following months. Remember when I told you that I have 10 groups each week? Well, that changed on the second week of this month. I now have 15 groups. [...]
[Continue reading...]salute to efren piñaflorida!
December 13, 2009 4 Comments
I would, of course, quote my source if I could remember where I got it but unfortunately, I can only be sure that it is from one of the innumerable blogs I came across with. I normally take note of nicely written, powerful, amusing, or interesting lines from the blogs, books, magazine, and newspapers I [...]
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