Finally teaching again...mostly

Teaching finally did resume last week, although more students were sent home for school fees last week. Efficiency is... defined differently here, or something.

I also just realized that I've never written about our other classes. In August we also started teaching some villagers for an hour 3 times/week. That class is really fun because we can teach whatever we want, and we can go as slow as we want because they aren't preparing for any national exams, and there's no curriculum we have to follow. Plus, the students all come every day just because they WANT to, so they're much more engaged than our other students, generally. And really enthusiastic. I was worried because we have a lot of different ability levels, so we had to start with the beginners, but the more advanced students find their own ways to challenge each other, instead of just sitting there and being bored, like I would be, haha.

My other classes are going well, too. We are teaching the past tense to Form I (they have a test on Monday!) and I'm teaching a whole random smattering to Form II, the funniest of which I think is Question Tags. I bet you've never noticed that you speak in Question Tags, have you? They're a super strange speech pattern, aren't they? And pretty annoying to learn. Poor kids. But, we actually do use them a lot, so at least they might be useful. Plus, since we've gotten to know each other better, I joke around with them more, and I now like to use the names of the notorious "dodgers" (the ones who always skip class) in my examples, which always gets laughs. Hopefully they've learned enough to pass to Form III.

Other than that, nothing else terribly new. I'm coming home to spend the long holiday in Minnesota before heading back in January, so it feels like no time at all left!