So it's Tuesday..a long day for me...I was faced with the prospect of my most obnoxious class at 7:30 pm and a potential lone-student for my 8:30pm class. But...with 45min. left before my 7:30pm class I fired off a text message to the worst three students, it said, "Let's study quietly and hard tonight...if you can't study quietly, DON'T COME!!!...and don't forget your books"
It's another part of my campaign to salvage that class, which also included a profanity-laced episode I unloaded on them a couple weeks ago..dropping the f-bomb on kids..not for the faint of heart..but, effective in Korea.
So tonight class was really excellent, kids were motivated and focused, the two noisiest (brother/sister team) showed up late but just slid into their seats and joined us mid-lesson.
Afterwards was a 1-on-1 with a woman I've been teaching for about 2 years. A long 1-on-1 class quickly turned into, "Let's go get Chinese" turned into "which Chinese liquor" turned into the manager of the restaurant making me a special dish because her cooks had left, turned into the manager 'servicing' us three free varieties of alcohol (the weakest being 39%...woof!), turned into my students buying me a pricey bottle of Chinese liquor that the manager gave her a great discount on because of who we were (friends of the Chinese teacher).
Ok..random story perhaps..but just a normal Tuesday where all things could go to hell, but go quite quickly the opposite way...
Just felt like sharing...
1 comment:
Didn't sound so ho-hum to me. Sounds like a fun night...minus the teaching part. I do miss the great food there.
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