Have a Butcher's at This

I know I haven’t been writing much for my blog lately. My workload increased 2 weeks ago, so I have more classes to prepare. When starting teaching, it takes longer to prepare classes. When you get into it and start to build up a repertoire, the time it takes does get shorter! Life is quiet enough here at the moment and I have sort of settled into a routine.

I walked into my classroom this morning to see “Becks and Posh = nosh” and “Adam and Eve = believe” written on the board. I’m sure you’ve all twigged that it’s Cockney Rhyming Slang. Now, why it was funny is because I knew who did it. It was the Aussie teacher, Ken! We had a conversation about that the day before, trying to confuse a student and he did try and explain “Becks and Posh” to her, to no avail! Well, I tried to explain it to my students as well, resulting in very blank and confused faces!!

All the teachers have to do some sort of cultural lecture type thing. I think I’m on next week. I don’t really want to do it but if it keeps the big boys happy, then maybe it’s worth doing. I can’t see it being very interesting, since I am not very interested in doing it! They want us to speak for an hour, which is a long time, especially, since the people who will be listening will be students and it will be difficult for them to take everything in as it’s in English! Also, I’d probably bore them to tears!! Sure, let’s see what happens! I was told that someone was to ring me about it but I haven’t heard from him! He did ring me when I was in shanghai but it was half eight on a Sunday morning and I was in bed at the time, so I don’t really remember what he said! So, anyone who didn’t understand the title of this post can now know that in Cockney rhyming slang, “butcher’s hook” is look! It’s often shortened to just “butcher’s”

On another note, Ireland are playing the Swiss in the final World Cup qualifier tonight. I don’t think this one is on TV. CCTV5 is showing a Germany Vs China friendly and the one that showed the Ireland-France game last time is showing England, who have already qualified. I blame Beckham-itis for the interest in England! So, good luck to the boys in Green. Lets pray that France lose or draw and that we win (probably both unlikely, but we’re usually very fluky!!