Mike the Teacher

We have been teaching these last few days. It's been the first time we've been without the english teacher or any other teacher for that matter. We have English, Music, Drama and Dance, and internet/computer classes here. The kids are often lovely and occasionally terrible. Just like kids in Canada...except that I cannot understand them here; a blessing almost. No kids have shown up to the last two classes, the 11 and the 12 classes. We don't know why, it's really strange, they normally crowd inside here whenever they can.

Teaching english is alright. It's frustrating because the subject is so big, and comprehension so small. None of us have ever taught english before, so we hardly know where to start. It's really great when you figuer out a good method and the kids catch on. Some of the kids know quite a bit of english here, and others don't. You never really know if you're going above their heads or speaking about stuff they did years ago. I'm betting it's both of those things at the same time.

My family and I watched Matilda on TV last night. It's a kids movie, but I liked it because it was in English. They keep trying to feed me too much, it's all I can do to finish the last piece of food, and it's often good. They tried to give me a dish of Leeks (Though they could have been the stems of Onions...the same thing?) and Feta cheese. I said no thanks and they were quite surprised. I wondered if they eat onions as candy here, I don't know how else someone could surprised that I didn't want to eat that dish. I feel bad about saying no to food, but they told me to if I didn't like something, I didn't want to let them down.

The girls and I have a weekend trip to Dubrovnik planned out, we leave friday morning and return monday afternoon. It should be lovely weather, a great city and lots of fun. I knew that I wanted to see Dubrovnik before I left Canada and now is my chance. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures.