SAM, the course that I am teaching is liken to a roller coaster due to its nature of progression. It will pick up slowly but surely and then... tenn tennn tennnn.... down it goes without stopping at almost neck breaking speed.
With tests, assignments and ... along the way, life can be very hectic. Sometimes when I leave home, I don't see the sun and when I am back, the sun has gone down.
Time really flies, and before one knows it, its final examination and then the year end holidays.
Today marked the first day of the second week of the course. The cycle has begun, with four hours of teaching everyday though I will teach differently in the 4 classes with one faster than the other sometimes. The pace and the style of teaching, depended much on the feedback from the students. Some classes seem 'stone' with not much reaction to whatever you do or they appear to be a bunch of 'smart alecks' giving you the impression the already know all.
Some classes are just very nice to be in. The warmth, the respect, the attention given to the lessons etc...
Yet some classes are not very predictable. Nevertheless, teaching is really a challenge, given a group of teenagers whom I can mould them to some useful adults in time to come. It's been great teaching them, see them grow mostly with joy and sometimes pains, the inevitable growing pains that we all face to some extent.
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