TEFL

So, I’m here in Prague. I’m enrolled in this TEFL course... Even after a year of experience in Japan, it’s amazing how little I know about teaching English to non-native speakers. On the first day, we got a Czech lesson (all in Czech) to give us an example of how it’s all supposed to work, and afterward we talked about what was and wasn’t done in the lesson. Oh boy was I a crappy teacher in Japan. I did SO many things wrong it’s ridiculous. What’s even more amazing is that the Japanese government is just fine (enthusiastic, even) with having ridiculously inexperienced “teachers” just waltz into classrooms and ineffectively “teach” (read: “put on a show for”) their impressionable children. I feel that after I’m done with this course, I’ll at least be qualified to teach (even if I’m not much of a teacher).

Meanwhile, the course is much more labor intensive than I had anticipated, so I unfortunately haven’t had much time to explore the city. On the one day that I did take to wander around and take pictures, my camera died because I was too stupid to think to charge it beforehand. Oh well. I’ll get another day, and when I do, I’ll put up the pictures, because Prague is (as everyone says) the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen.

Until then, though, you’ll just have to take my word for it.

Update:
You'll have to look back at old posts to see this. But I'm finally putting pictures up. Yay!



These take too long to load... You'll just have to take my word for it...