Highlight of "the day": Coming face-to-face (or should I say cheek-to-cheek?) with my first hot Peruvianos!
Discovery of the day : There are people in Peru who think China will take over the world (in 10 years...)
Over-riding emotion: Bliss
Nooooo.... : I have to do a "practice"-run of a class for some fellow teachers. Scary. I have a mental block when it comes to pretending people aren't who they are...
Well, I missed "The Big Bang Theory", but it was totally worth it for my first Peruvian birthday party and finally getting some eye-candy. I'm glad to discover that my nerd genes aren't so bad that I'd pass up a party for some awesome scientific comedy. Unfortunately, I am afraid I can't extend the new-found attractive gene to the rest of Peru as they were all brothers and their cousins weren't following suit. It could be a specific combination of genes in that particular nuclear family...
Apart from this, it was rather an uneventful day. I sat through a Sex-Ed tutorial for teachers, which was in Spanish so I didn't understand why the rest would suddenly burst out laughing. It seemed fun, which makes me more determined to learn Spanish faster. At the moment, I dread to think what I sound like to a Spanish speaker. My grammar is atrocious, but I am slowly increasing my vocabulary. I think the family are taking bets as to when I will be fluent. From tonight's discussion, I gather the estimates range from a very optimistic 2 months to a steady 1 year.
At the moment, I am trying to write up a syllabus for the Physics grades I will be teaching, 8 and 9, the two pre-A'level years. The Peruvian system is very strange in that all the schools teach what they want to - there is no curriculum. And, since the kids go to University at 16 (!!!), they cram some very advanced content in to the syllabus and leave out other more basic theory. My job is to make sure the gap between the basics and the IB syllabus is bridged before they start on that in 1 or 2 years time. It's proving difficult as the previous years were taught in Spanish and the syllabus needs to be translated by me!
So, I'll be getting back to that now...
A whole new meaning to the phrase "graphic sex":
What??
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Susana
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This was actually in the handout! AND, they went through it in the lecture. Unfortunately, I have no idea what was said...
ReplyDeleteSorry I am only just catching up with everything, Laha.
ReplyDelete"My job is to make sure the gap between the basics and the IB syllabus is bridged before they start on that in 1 or 2 years time. It's proving difficult as the previous years were taught in Spanish and the syllabus needs to be translated by me!"
ARE YOU SERIOUS? That sounds awfully daunting! Haha, they actually gave you a diagrammatic representation of the "sexual cycle"?