Saturday 31 January 2009

up-date

Hi everyone,

I don't know who follows my blog daily, (except me:)), but I decided to continue writing it, at least it's good for developing my writing skills, I think I'm not good at it....soo again, I just hope you understand. :)
So my last blog was about my last weekend in Denmark, it was pretty busy and fun. Today, at the very last day of January, here in Hungary, I started to work on my thesis, well, it's time, I hope I can finish it on time. If not that's okay. In December, I finished my teaching practice and then, I had an exam, just right after Christmas, on that day I remember that I hurt my ankle, which is still painful (more than a month later). In January, I did most of my exams, and I have already forgotten it. No wonder, there was nothing practical, or interesting, as usual. Except one exam, I think, my favourite, Native Americans, I like the topic as such, I like learning about Native Indians in general. So that exam was like talking to my teacher, I really enjoyed it. But that's it.
On Monday morning, I'm gonna start my teaching practice at Keri, it's one of the "ghettoest" high school in my town right now, and imagine 5 years ago when I studied there, it was quite okay, but now, it has changed a lot...And I realized this fact when I entered the classroom to talk about my teaching period and things to do. So it's very normal not to say hi to me. Not even mentioning the fact, that during the class it was normal to listening LOUD pop-gipsy music, playing poker, taking photos, chatting, and planning to explode the school. So now, you can ask me, Judit what are you doing there? Why did you choose that school? you're crazy etc......even my mentor teacher considers me silly, I could see on her, but that' s okay. I know I won't save these kids' life, (you know it's not my job) however, I know that they are there to learn sth and the fact that no one cares about them and almost every teacher has already given up on them, I do not want to do that. I would like to be a good example, and a teacher kind who would like to and able to teach them for sth useful, like a little bit of English. ?? Well, we'll see how it goes.
My mentor teacher told me that she does not want to "put me" in some classes, she is afraid that I would not survive, I mean students would hit me and steal my stuff. That's her experiences. Okay, I'm gonna let you know how it went. One of the biggest challenges of my life! Whoo!!