Today is the fourteenth day, and also the start of the third week of the spring semester 2024. I taught three classes; one in the morning and two in the afternoon. Foreign teachers are allotted many classes on Monday. Why? Well, I don’t think it is good to write the reason here.
First two classes are Listening for the second-year students. I taught expressions for speculation;”mitaida” and “rashii”. I don’t think 90 minutes are enough to learn these two expressions well. And as other years’ students, most students don’t understand the difference between the speculation ”souda” and the hearsay “souda”.
Although I wanted to take a nap during lunch hours, even if it’s just ten minutes, I didn’t have time to do so. I had to carry a bunch of answer sheets of final exam in last semester from my room to the administrative building. Also, I needed to ask how to register scores of retests. I was carrying three bags on my both hands and shoulder. When I was going to cross an intersection of the road, I saw many cars made their turns without direction lights on.
Finishing several tasks in teacher’s room, I had to go to classroom for afternoon class. Early afternoon class was listening for another second-year students. And late afternoon class was conversation for the first-year students. There are a lot of things that I want to write here, but I have to stop to write. Actually, now I am writing this in the following morning. I need to prepare for Tuesday class.
Agony or Fun?! Second Language Learning 