This is the seventh day of the spring semester. The second week will start tomorrow. That means I have to prepare for classes in coming week. I have eight classes a week, but luckily enough, I just have to prepare for PPT presentations for four classes, because I teach the same subject to two class of the same grade. I had completed the first one in Friday night, the second at noon on Saturday, the third in the morning today, and I completed the fourth Power point presentation just before, Sunday night. One class lasts 90 minutes, or I could say it is 95 minutes with 45 minutes for first half, 5 minutes break, and 45 minutes for last half. My PPT usually becomes 45 slides for 90 minutes class. I use seven hours to make PPT for one class in average sense.
Today has been another peaceful weekend day. I got up at 5 a.m., upload a post on wordpress, took a breakfast of steamed rice, miso soup, and a cup of protein supplement shaken with cow milk. As for protein supplement, not with cow milk, but I wanted to mix it with goat milk, thinking about digestion. But I cannot find any goat milk these days on the shelves in a supermarket. Probably it’s because there is no grass on the ground in this time of season.
I turned on the power switch of the hot water tank. I wanted to take a shower in the morning. But I kept making PPT after the breakfast. I just missed the timing to take a shower. Maybe I am stinky. Once I completed PPT slides for listening course of the second-year students, I quickly started making PPT slides for conversation course of the first-year students.
At noon, I went outside for lunch. I went to the Campus restaurant and ate a bowl of “Beef Rah-men”. I got discount for teachers. But I couldn’t find any single piece of beef in the Rah-men. They may say beef is used for soup.
On the way back to the residence, I brought my jacket and two trousers to a laundry. And bought 12 litter water and two cartons of cow milk. Leaving my purchases in my room, I went outside again, this time to the administrative building. Since I don’t have a printer in my room, I wanted to use the printer in the teachers’ room. I was there for an hour, printing some documents about the final examinations in the last semester. Printing quality was bad. It must have been black and white printing, but made many parts gray. Probably the toner is not a genuine product.
I came back a little past three in the afternoon. I continued to work for PPT making. I cooked my supper with a lot of vegetable from 6 to 7 p.m. After the supper I completed the fourth PPT on this weekend at 8 p.m. And now I am writing this.
There will be a lot of scoring work in coming week. Those are retests of the final examinations of last semester. What I am worrying about now is that I will not be able to prepare well for the classes on next week of the coming week. Tough time continues. I don’t have time to rest.
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