Filed under: Happenings
Week one has come and gone; it’s Friday, right? The weekend is mine? Overall, it’s been a good first week. Only have to visit my fixed schedule classes, I got to learn about my schedule as I went along. Next week I’ll start going to other English classes to give a “one-shot” English lesson as well as my fixed schedule classes. Since these classes usually don’t have an ALT, I’ve heard you can be treated like a star. Only time will tell.
The only day I had issues with was Thursday when I had to visit both my main school and my visit school. Mostly I felt as though going to the second school was a waste of time and resources, because I will only be teaching 1-2 classes while there. Because of the schedule, I pretty much get two hours to commute between schools, which gives me plenty of time to walk down the mountain, pick up lunch somewhere, take the train, walk up the next not-so-tall mountain and eat lunch at my desk. But is it all worth it? I’ll give it a couple of weeks and see, but for now I hope this Thursday schedule only applies to my 2nd semester.
I also had my first orchestra practice on Wednesday. The music was a little difficult for the first time reading through it, but the whole experience of playing in a community orchestra brought back a lot of memeories of high school playing in the Jefferson City Symphony. The people were nice, the music was good, and the conductor was well, a conductor so it was easy enough to figure out what part of the music he was talking about and what needed to be fixed because of how he spoke. “Bah ba ba ba BAH” etc.
Finally, my first grad school class started, though with some delay so I am trying to catch up at this point in time. 
It’ll help once I get internet at my apartment.
