Crossword forge

Oggi mi sono divertita un sacco facendo i cruciverbi per le mie classe con la programma "Crossword forge". Il programma fa quasi tutto per te. I cruciverbi sono per venerdì perché saranno le ultime lezioni prima della vacanza.

Domani c'è anche una piccola messa alle cinque e mezzo. Se i miei allievi cantano ancora così bello come l'altra volta vale la pena!! Sono molti bravi e poi vorrei andare per dire ciao prima della vacanza!

È anche successo un'altra cosa oggi. Avevo scritto sotto i compiti di un allievo che mi preoccupavo per lui e se lui avesse bisogno potrebbe venire a parlare. Dopo la lezione è venuto e mi ha detto grazie con un bel gran sorriso, il primo da molte settimane che ho visto. Anche se non mi ha detto cosa c'è era bello vedere quel sorriso!!

Hmmm, ok...

fehlt da nicht was?

Due!

Ecco, solo un altro giorno ma dopo di aver preparato 5 lezioni sto tanto meglio e meno nervosa. Sembra tutto facile perché mi hanno dato così tanto materiale e informazione che so esattamente come e cosa fare. E dopotutto sono solo 45 minuti non un ora d'insegnamento. Mi sono anche divertita a preparare la lezione di istoria della letteratura. Uau!

Ma devo ammettere che adesso ho capito un po' a cosa servono tutte queste regole e la disciplina. Fa la vita più facile. Per tanto tempo mi sono solo sentita oppressa delle regole e "vietato questo vietato quello"... in Germania e una cosa che è ancora tanto valutata purtroppo. Spero che posso fare capire anche agli alievi che non vogliamo torturargli con le regole ma che vogliamo aiutargli.

Tutto bene

Well, the supervised lesson will only be next week. Also received a message from my boss today saying the trip to the office in Italy is on the 28th. I really, really didn't want to go the day before my supervised lesson. I really need to prepare it well!! Today went great, however! We did the separable verbs (e.g. einkaufen- ich kaufe ein) and they didn't know most of them. So I gave them a handfull of them and we made phrases and played with the prefixes and the verbs. Then we repeated the prepositions and I'm very happy with how well they have learned them!!! Auf and ueber are still a problem, however, but I think I will repeat the prepositions only one more time and then only when they come up during the lesson. I'm still happy to have found a position so quickly and very very grateful that I have found something that I really love to do. When I was younger I never knew I was going to be a teacher!! I'm also thinking of teaching kids in about a year or so... Today I posted another 23 applications and I hope I will find another position soon as one course a week isn't enough in any way. Gotta go to bed now. Still working as an au pair and it is much more fun now that it has become quite warm outside and I can take the little one everywhere with the bike. My parents will arrive this Friday and I'm all excited... I do miss my brothers very much, however. Almost all of my friends have come to visit but my brothers I do miss the most. Even if all they ever did was annoy me when they were little baby brother monsters. Hehe.

My head knows...

So now that I have taught for a full month I will have a supervised lesson tomorrow, uffa... They do that every four weeks to insure that the quality of the lessons don't diminuish. In theory that's a good thing if only it didn't make me so nervous!!! I finally felt quite comfortable in the classroom and quite enjoyed teaching and my adrenaline level didn't quite get up so high any more but I already slept less well tonight and I keep thinking of revising my lesson plan for tomorrow worrying that it is too short or too much repetition etc... I hate when I do that because all the feedback I have had so far has been absolutely positive and my students have told me several times that they are quite happy with the way I teach. So there's really no reason at all to get anxious or to worry. A classical case of "my head knows but my emotions are stronger"...

Well, my parents will arrive on Friday and they will stay until Monday! The weather's supposed to be sunny but not as great as it has been. I'm up at Vigera right now and Sunday we did an hour or two climbing the river bed of the Ticino, which is still pretty small up here (the source is in the mountains of St. Gottardo) and runs in a sort of a canyon. We found some rocks that seem to be fossils and lots of sandy beaches and fish. Yesterday we went for a hike up to Carì, through pine woods and rocky fields and little huts and fountains. I got so tanned up here I can't imagine getting any more tanned in summer!!!

Anyway, later we will return to Bellinzona and Nico's aunt will bring her bunny which will stay with us for two weeks because she is moving to another house. Today I also had an email from my penpal Marta. She writes to me in German and I write her in Italian and we help each other correcting mistakes and learning about the other's culture. She is from Rome but lives at Florence. Writing in English I keep thinking that soon I will need a tandem partner who speaks English because I can definitely see how my English deteriorates. I used to be able to speak and write like I did in German but now it's really difficult not to use Italian grammar and words...