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2004年10月02日(土) 気持ちの軽い週末

今日は子供たちが通う日本人補習校で運動会だったため、Japanese Cultureのクラスを欠席。

でも、かーさんは“お休み”じゃないのですよ。
朝6時に起きて、米8合ぶんのおにぎりとおいなりさんを作って運動会へ。
高校のラグビー場を借りての運動会なので、日陰がなくて毎年辛いんですよね……。
今年で4回目の運動会ともなると、こっちもいろいろ慣れてきて、今日も自分の子供の出番以外は、宿題やったり爆睡したり。
おかげで1週間ぶんの疲れを挽回できた感じです。

いつもはボロボロになって帰宅するんですが、爆睡のおかげで今日は結構元気。
夕食後、うちの下宿人くんと2人で近所のコーヒーショップへ行って勉強。
彼はPC持参で数学の課題です。
4時間、2人とも無言でもりもりやったので、私はマディのクラスのWriting Assignmentを終わらせました。

しかし、ほぼ毎週2人で訪れるこのコーヒーショップ、店員さんにも顔を覚えられているんですが


↑押すと文字が変わるエンピツ投票ボタン


13歳も年齢ちがうし……



ライティングクラスをドロップすることで、大きな悩みがなくなった(解決されたわけではないけど)ので、とても気持ちの軽い週末でした。
だって、今度の月曜日からは、あの先生の授業に出なくていいんだもん。

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[Grammar&Writing] Writing Assignment Draft#1

A Career I'm Interested in

 I have been groping my new professional since I lost my job that I thought a life work. I know only my former occupation very well as a professional. Therefore I haven't found interesting career since I came to the U.S. However, it is changing because I have had new experience, so I've been interested in teaching people recently.
 The first of my experiences related to teaching is that I have been helping a Japanese language class as an assistant in this college. It is the beginning class, and most of students in the class had never learned Japanese language. Although it is only six weeks passed now, they can read and write two kinds of Japanese syllabic writing. It is amazing! My son can't do it, even though he has been learning writing Japanese for three years. Moreover, I saw pleasure. One of the students, a Russian woman, who was not able to understand a lecture with spoken Japanese, and of course, she got grade F on quizes the teacher gives in every class. Yet last week, I found her grade A as I was correcting the quiz! Since then, she might have been enjoying attending the class. She has been asking me questions without constraint and saying "Hi" to me in Japanese lately.
 The second cause of getting interested in teaching is due to helping my daughter's homework. I help with my children's homework everyday as same as other mothers. On last Monday, my daughter brought hard homework which was math problems, and they seemed for the sixth grade. Even though my daughter is in the fourth grade, her teacher gave them because my daughter is strong at math. Though she is strong, the problems were too hard for her. She cried, threw the homework to a wall, and shouted evil-words. Then I showed her how to solve them. It took me an hour to make her understand, she finally showed me a big smile and kissed me.
 Through these experiences, I noticed that teaching people makes them happy. Furthermore, making people happy makes me satisfied. As a result, I have been interested in teaching; however, I don't have any ability of teaching.


後日談
上記の課題、5日に提出してその日のうちに添削&採点されて返ってきました。
採点は“A/C-”。
おお、なんという点数差(笑)
“A”は内容と構成に対する採点、“C-”は文法です。


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