Like I expected, I can’t remember what happened last weekend or what went on for teaching day 3 if I didn’t write ‘em down straightaway. There’s a cocktail of English and American accents and CELTA lingo in my head now with imaginary phonemes appearing on everything I say or write.

I got an “above standard” grade today for my lesson! Wasn’t expecting it thoughI know that I did do better today than all my previous lessons. I guess my improvisation using a student in my class to elicit and teach the first conditional scored me some points. However, my instructions for the activities still came out in a mess as before.

I took John’s advise yesterday about doing the lesson plan and language analysis before preparing the lesson materials and it really did work. He mentioned the lesson is only gonna be as good as our analysis of the target language and wise words indeed. If I hadn’t done that, I wouldn’t have been able to do my impromptu grammar clarification before my lesson proper that I didn’t plan for.

Jinhan got his 3rd “above standard” today! I’m thrilled for him! Hope he’ll get a Pass with A at the end of CELTA. I’m aiming for a Pass with B.

Oh, and my classmate, Tom (Thomas), gave me a mixed tape of songs with Gloria or Glory in them (except for one song – I will survive by Gloria Gaynor, which technically doesn’t count)! That was sooo sweeet and it really made my day!

I’ve only been getting an average of 6 hours’ sleep every night and am suffering for a bit of a migraine since yesterday. Need to persevere! Assignment 2 due tomorrow! Damn, this blog is starting to get really wordy. Gonna go 拍照，拍照 with Kenji this weekend!