I know it's been a while since I last wrote on here... things are so busy that there isn't too much time to update everyone on what's going on, and "three times a week" is definitely more like "three times a month."
Good news first. There's only a little over a week left in this endurance test, and I think everyone will be much better off for it. It's a really rough ride and it's led most people here pretty close to breakdowns if not directly to it. That said, the worst is over. Nobody need worry about me and thank you to those of you who have been supportive.
The difficult... I don't relate to first graders and don't really care to. I'm not motivated because I don't see any goals or reason for achievement. I think I've described all this before. Writing engaging lesson plans for first graders is remarkably difficult. I could keep an entire college lecture interested, I'm pretty sure, but a class of first graders is pretty much impossible for me. And I don't really see it getting that much better. Yeah, it's summer, and I have no idea if they know the material, and I only see them for an hour a day, and there's a language barrier... but none of that really makes it less of a downer to not be able to get the kids interested.
Other events... I went out to an Asian karaoke bar here in Houston where everything was written in Korean (I think)... for the Fourth, saw the fireworks which were pretty big... managed to get a new spare tire... the few bits and pieces of time I have outside of institute are fun and I do like this city, except the roads.
Unfortunately there's still much to be done tonight, so I have to go, but I promise to try to update everyone again soon...
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