Today I had my first class with kids and it was quite fun. To be honest I’d rather be working with kids, but I came too late, after the start of the school term, so I’m just getting a few filling in classes with them. It went pretty well today – until they figured out that I was covering, and then they went a little crazy… which I seem to remember was what we did at school when we had covering teachers – so no hard feelings. I felt humbled by the fact that these (I guess) 12/13 year-olds speak much better english than I do spanish :(
Afterwards I had a class with a guy who is fast becoming my favourite pupil. He stands out because he’s the only person I teach (or indeed know) who is the same age as me. He’s a programmer working for BT and we spent this lesson geeking out about linux and badmouthing Macs. When I asked him (as part of the lesson plan) what kind of problems one encounters at work, he gave me a lesson in querying oracle databases. Tomorrow is a public holiday here so nothing to do… also I got my first pay cheque today… wooohoo!