I didn't really have the opportunity to do much of anything special for the Christmas holiday. Even as a Jew, I usually make some effort to do something enjoyable with the day off--not in a religious way, but one might as well enjoy a day off as not. But this year, there really wasn't much to do.
One of my now former students invited me to a party a business associate was involved with. Thus turned out to be some knd of shindig for Amway salesepeople. I was not pleased.
My former student indicated to me that there would be several people who spoke English there, and I would have a good chance of striking up a friendship. He was wrong on both counts. I spoke English with only one person in more than an hour and a half at the party, and the person with whom I spoke tried to recruit me into Amway. I declined with as much politeness and dignity as I could.
The remainder of the evening I spent with my former student (after insisting that we leave), discussing his marital problems and my career problems. He offered me the piece of advice that he thinks I will be a find ESL/EFL teacher, for high school age and above, when I am more experienced. And I don't doubt that. I just need to figure out how to get someplace where I don't spend all of my time doing hammer slap drills for little kids. These couple of days of teaching kindergarten have confirmed for me that I really am not a good teacher for small children. I like teaching better when my students have at least a little bit of experience of the world that I can work with. Children, by definition, have little to none.
By the way, to those of my family who may be reading, I apologize for not calling on Christmas. I didn't have access to an international calling card, and my cell phone minutes have all expired (again) and I have no way of getting new ones.
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