So, today was the fourth day of the spring semester in 2024. I didn’t want to get up early, but I awoke at around 4:30 a.m. Probably my body is still living in Japan standard time. I had been making PPT by 9:10 and left my room at 9:30 for the class. The first class of today was of listening for the second-year students. Since I realized in last semester, that the second-year students hadn’t learned basic things well, I decided spending more time for new words and mechanical practice this semester. What I tried through mechanical practice today was to make my students get used to make sentences of hearsay “Souda”.
Today’s second class was of conversation for the first-year students. I went to a classroom at 1:20 p.m. and prepared for my teaching. The first thing I did was to connect the AC adopter to an outlet on the teaching desk. The AC adopter provides DC to my computer. Though the computer has battery inside, it doesn’t last long. Since I had two classes in the afternoon, I can’t help but connecting my computer to the outlet.
Let me skip the class activities that I had done in that early afternoon class. When the class ended, I found that my computer’s battery was very low. I realized that it didn’t mean that I could get electric even if there was an outlet. There are many connecting jacks on the teaching desk. They are for USB, VGA, HDMI, microphone, and outlet. But actually, some connections are unstable because of poor contact, and some are not connected at all. This time, the outlet didn’t provide any electricity to my AC adopter.
I moved to a different classroom for the late afternoon class, and fortunately I could get electricity from the outlet in that classroom. But there was another connection problem in that room, too; the HDMI cable couldn’t send audio data because of poor contact. So, I used two cables; VGA and audio cable. If the system on the teaching desk was built and checked well, a teacher doesn’t have to think about how to connect his/her computer to the system.
After the three classes, though I was tired, I went to a supermarket in the campus. I needed drinking water. I carried 10 litter with two 5-litter bottles. Then I scored quizzes, cooked my supper, and wrote this. Okay, now it’s the time to go to bed.
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