Täglich Wiederkehrendes Abenteuer

We went to the gym today.  It was nice and it put me in a good mood.  Since my schedule isn’t very hectic, I can see us spending a lot of time there.  I have a goal of being able to do a pull-up.   If I do get strong enough to do a one, […]

Here I am showing you a Children’s Surprise Egg.

Today (Wednesday) was a busy day.  I went to three classes today that I’m likely to be quite involved in going forward.  The first one is a small course for elementary school teachers.  I wrote about it before.  The focus is on not only improving the students’ English, but also on giving them ideas for […]

So far, it’s been a good day.  First we went to a barber shop that’s about a block away.  They don’t take walk-ins, so I set up an appointment for Will on Thursday at 9:00.  I’ll be able to go with him to describe how he would like his hair to be cut and answer […]

Today, we stopped by the human resources department of the school to drop off confirmation that I attended the training last week.  On the certificate, they spelled my name “Vorhees.”  I asked the man if it was a problem that it was spelled wrong.  He said not to worry; no one will notice because no […]

Just got back from the first class.  It went well; the students were friendly and not unwilling to speak.  My presentation went over pretty well. One interesting thing is that because this is a teacher-training college, the English courses focus not just on improving the English of the teachers in training but also on teaching […]

Today, I had a meeting with the teacher of the first class I will meet.  I am doing a short PowerPoint presentation for them tomorrow morning.   Then, the students will introduce themselves and talk about what experiences they’ve had teaching English, while I take note of any pronunciation weirdnesses I hear.  If something is […]

The training I just got back from was at a ski resort, so we took a bit of  a hike into the mountains.  Click for larger. Gallery:

So training is alright. Yesterday, we took a hike up a mountain; it was pretty cool. We went to a little place up there to have a beer and tea and hot chocolate. Maria von Trapp’s friend, Hans, wore lederhosen and brought his accordion, so we sang songs up there as well. It was a […]

So I’m here at training. I was pretty nervous about making it to the place, but when I was waiting for the second train connection, I found some other people on the platform who were going to the same place as me. So we sat together on the train and chatted. Then when we got […]