I had my homeroom all to myself, but I was fully prepared. Except I didn't have a list of their names so I had to improvise. I simply took out a sheet of paper and had them tell me their names so I could write them down. Thankfully, I have been in the class so I could spot any fake names. I did get one. "Bob." Yeah..no. I am 100% sure there is no Bob. I really want to engage them and get to know them, so when they told me their names, they had to tell me a restaurant to eat at. I played the "I'm an American and don't know what to eat," but I just wanted them to talk to me. Pathetic. But it worked! I was told some places, and can't wait to check them out. I was told McDonalds, Subway, and KFC. Good try kids, I already have those. Our head boy tells me, "Miss, can you eat the Subway here and tell me if it's better or worse than the American one?" Uh. I feel as though it's pretty darn similar. They had plenty to say and we had some good laughs. Success.
Day two of geography coursework began and I was pretty much expecting the same thing as yesterday, but was a bit more deteremined to get some work done. I sat with my student, who I am naming S., because I can't actually spell his real name. He did not seem too excited about continuing our work, though I'm sure that had nothing to do with me. We started out recapping the previous days work and catching up on items we have not completed. The students were meant to complete their work from the previous day as well as the introduction and the methodology table.
The methodology table was not as much writing, which seemed to be his weakest point, so we did well on that. Discussing with other students during low control was helpful. S. was able to tell me what their methodology was so he simply needed me to help him get his knowledge into sentences. There were sections where he did not know his methodology, so I had to essentially learn the correct methodology and get him to write it down. The nice teacher, who also works with the students who do not speak English well, came in and helped. At the break, I asked how I supposed to truly help him. Was I supposed to essentially give him the words to write? Or step back and only help him with instructions and grammar? The answer: Give him the words. With that knowledge, I took more initiative and we got a lot done on the methodology. The quality was not as high as other students, but he was doing fine.
Moving onto the introduction was a bit harder. One could not simply write what happened; concepts had to be linked and terms utilized. One of the main tasks was to annotate photographs of the outing with geographical terms and then describe each site they visited in great detail. S. did well annotating photographs, but needed a good amount of assitance. We were successful in taking a few mental breaks and laughing about little dumb things, such as his brain failing from all the work. I also helped out with the few of the students at my table and got to have conversations with them and get to know them better. I really like this class and age group so much. Working with S. has been a new experience but I'm enjoying it.
Although I was exhausted, we had plans to go to the theater. And what did we see? Bum. Bum. Bum. Singing in the Rain! Ah! Love the movie, how could the theater version be bad?! We had the front seats on the second balcony, with limited foot room. Not fantastic, but I didn't care. I was at the theater, The Palace Theater to be exact, and I could see the stage. Happy camper. That's where my title of the blog comes from. It's a re-occurring line from the show/movie. So the show was awesome. It actually rained on stage. Not drizzled. It poured. There was enough water on this special stage that the lead actor could kick and splash water all over the first front rows. The whole production was so expertly done. The show relied heavily on dance, which that just made the dance numbers that much more wonderful. In the final number, it began to pour again, and the whole cast came out in in trench coats and silver umbrellas and sang "Singing in the Rain." And then, the inside of the umbrellas were all different colors which just made everything amazing! Ah! Blown away! I recommend it. I wouldn't make a very good theater critic. I would just tell people to see everything. Note: We decided to walk up the stationary escaltor stairs instead of the the moving one. Worst decision ever. There were SO many stairs.
I didn't take this picture last night, I took it earlier in the trip, but the theater looked amazing!
Week Four: Day Two: Internship 6
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