'ello again!

Haven’t written anything for a week. Well, nothing earth-shattering has happened! 3 8 o’clock classes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday means going to bed around 11pm! Great craic.

I have decided to part company with my Chinese school (where I learn Chinese). It was costing 30% of my weekly salary to be taught by a lack-lustre teacher. So, I have got some students to teach me instead. They are majoring in Chinese language and want to teach Chinese to foreigners when they graduate. They are first year students and have never taught before, but after having a class with them on Sunday, I reckon they should be fine. They know all the grammar and can explain stuff well! I even bought a whiteboard for the flat, so it’s like a little classroom now.

I gotta give a talk in the Uni’s series of “Cultural Lectures”. All the foreign teachers need to give a talk for an hour or so. At first, I was indifferent, well not really. I just didn’t want to do it. But, since I started it, I have become interested in doing a good job on it. I’ve been reading Irish history, most of which I’d forgotten. Interesting stuff. I reckon I’m getting more patriotic and I’m thinking that after this talk, the students won’t have too good opinion of the Brits!

Apart from history, I wanna show them some trad music and a bit about Irish sports (both the indoor pint-lifting and outdoor GAA kind)! I reckon it should be interesting for them, since none of them know anything about Ireland. I am gonna give them a few bars of “The Fields of Athenry” as well!