"Dresses" Teaching Part Two

We started our observation in our school today, and got to sit through two 7th grade English classes. It was super easy to find and when they gave us our schedules, we only are going 7 days in 4 weeks, lol, and only to see 2 classes per day. LOL WHAT IS THIS we totally lucked out with this, because our travel time is so low and we started late to begin with. Maybe it's to make up for the fact that we are actually teaching way more than other people.

I was nervous because this morning went wonderfully, with the kids, but I had to teach tonight again with a ton of people watching, observing, and critiquing. Joern, who is one of Dr. G's assistants in the program evaluation and such, met us at our dorm and took us down to the factory where we teach Monday nights. Joern ended up being the one observing me today, too, during the lesson, and it went SO WELL. I mean, it was smooth and easy and the students, adults again, were amazing. We ended up having such good conversations that we didn't even GET to the last activity because everything was

going so well. There was a funny time when I managed to spell "school" wrong (dyslexia, lmao) and Joern kept joking that he was writing down "horrible spelling, needs immediate improvement".

He told me it was a very good lesson afterwards, I was so happy. And all my assistants were like oh my god, that was so good, it was so smooth and easy and went so well, and Alex asked if he could borrow my outline to plan a lesson of his own around it. YAY OMG I AM SO HAPPY!!! I was just so down from last week, and this has totally, totally boosted my mood going into Wednesday. :Db

When we got on the train to come back, Joern asked us if we wanted to get some food at his favorite donar place and see some of the trendy, culture streets of the city, and we of course said yes. He led us through the real artsy district where he lives, pointing out places to get good food and good places to shop. Unfortunately, I was wearing my nice flats since I was wearing a skirt and tights to teach in, so my feet were

KILLING me by the time we got to his favorite donar restaurant.

I ended up getting this dish called "kumpir", I believe, which is kind of a twice-baked potato with all this stuff on top- mine had tuna and goat cheese with cabbage and cucumbers and tons of other stuff. It might actually be the single best thing I've eaten since arriving here, not gonna lie. SO GOOD. And we had so much fun. Joern kept joking that he was going to cry to his beloved diary later since we made him finish his food, and we had a conversation about Guy Ritchie movies, and he's just really great. So much fun!

I am literally now sitting with my feet in a bucket of hot water because they are a hot mess after this scenic detour in the death shoes. I'm still so tired since I had to drag myself out of bed to get to the school at 6 AM this morning- this schedule is INSANE, but at least tomorrow I only have lesson planning and 2 TUD course observations, so it's a relatively short day for me. And due to the lack of a coffee maker

in my apartment, I'm effectively de-caffeinated right now, which might explain an awful lot. I keep jonesing so hard for coffee. There was a Dunkin' Donuts in the station yesterday right before we came home and that was the best 2 Euro I've spent yet.
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