Preparing 2 Classes in one day

Today is the twenty-seventh day of the spring semester 2024, and happens to be Sunday that should be the day of rest. But I had to prepare for Monday’s two classes. I have to teach three classes on Monday, but two are the same subject. As of morning, only a half PPT slide was completed for one class. As for the other class, I had done nothing for PPT slides. Making one and a half PPT presentations in one day is obviously tough thing to do.

I also had to go the administrative building to print answer sheets of quizzes that would be used on Monday. I am going to give them to the first-year students in conversation class and the second-year students in listening class. Printing about thirty A4 paper didn’t take much time, but I talked to the chief about the situation in the classroom. I spent one hour in the teachers’ room.

In the afternoon, I talked with one student via videophone on Dingtalk. He asked my advice for his interview in the entrance examination of a graduate school. I don’t have much experience nor knowledge about academic world like graduate school. But through one hour talk, I think I gave him much advice such that he could get high score in the interview. I talked with him from 2 to 3 p.m.

After the talking, I worked very hard to make PPT presentation. I cooked my supper, but I decided to eat it after I finish today’s PPT making. I ate my supper at 10:50 p.m. I thought that if I could have eaten the supper one hour earlier, it would be much better for me to prepare for the new week. Perhaps I could have got one hour if I didn’t talk to one student in the afternoon. But I shouldn’t think like this because he needed my help.

I ate apple in late night supper. I felt the apple tasted unnatural as if artificial flavor was injected. I stopped eating those pieces of apple and threw them into garbage. Those apples were that I bought in campus supermarket, not that I bought in the store I go every Saturday. A small piece of seal was put on the apple, so I will try not to buy the same apple again by checking the seal.