So yet again I am super tired...might have to be another short one tonight and this time I'll endeavour to do it monolingually but we shall see where this takes us...!
We had our first classes today - our first teacher was lovely and very friendly :) I was very happy because they are planning to organise the lessons around the fact that we are all pre-PGCE and so we did a lot of things which could be used in the classroom once we start teaching. I thought this was really really helpful actually - I expected this to be the case throughout the SKE course but unfortunately it hasn't been so it is really nice to finally do something which I know will be revelant later on! Interestingly, a lot of my friends have had problems with their host families so I am feeling very lucky that mine are so lovely :) I think it really does make a big difference - as Thom said earlier, even if you have a rubbish day, if you can go home to somewhere nice it doesn't matter so much.
Our second teacher was absolutely hilarious - she was larger than life and used such exaggerated speech and movement. I think that a lot of people found her to be a bit intimidating but as the lesson went on, it was evident that she is actually very nice :)
After going for lunch to celebrate Jenny's birthday, we met up with some others for our organised guided tour. What can I say? An extra hour of standing in the boiling sunshine with no shade and no chance to sit and rest for three hours ended with a very stressed group of SKE students! Although I can't help but admit that our tour guide's range of languages and flute-playing were seriously impressive...I just wish we'd been in a position to understand a bit more of what he was saying.
Back on the tram for dinner with my host family, then managed to provoke yet another problem (I hope my being awkward isn't going to become a daily thing here) - yesterday it was my unexpected vegetarianism and today I sat on my bed and broke it...the required heaving to get the slats back into place was particularly mortifying as they wouldn't let me help, although being unable to explain exactly what I had done to my host mother definitely comes a close second...!
Anyway, enough for tonight! I'm boiling and exhausted, so I think it's time to get some sleep. Bon nuit :)
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