First week after spring break!

This week was the first week of school after spring break; I was super out of it last week. While not going to class and student teaching was nice, my daily momentum was thrown off and I became very down and sluggish. On Tuesday, I was observed to teach an English Language Arts lesson; many things went wrong but at the same time, I just kind of don't care. I was suppose to go over the students' homework but they didn't bring it to class (because it is due on Friday); the kids went all crazy and attitude on me, one even said: "DUH" to me. I don't know if its fortunuate or unfortunate, but I didn't catch it. However, the substitute Ms. S, my observer, AND the kids' Chinese teacher heard it; the student got reprimanded pretty badly with a letter sent home and he had to come and apologize to me in person. The next lesson I need to teach is math, IN CHINESE. Oh shieeet! I dread teaching it in May, but it will eventually have to happen.

On a random note, during seminar I found out that one of my childhood mentors, Ms Y is a master teacher for my classmates. If it wasn't for her, many things in my life would have been much different. What a small world! If I didn't do bilingual ed, there might have been a chance she would have been MY master teacher! It's a small world after all... la la la la

On Thursday, a professor gave us a talk about academic integrity and yadda yadda. Unfortunately, this person does not preach what they teach. It's moments like this, it allows us pre-service teachers to see what we should and should not do in our own classrooms. Being bi-polar, inconsistent, messy, unprepared, and not flexible is just a big no-no as an educator. I just pray that I never get on the bad side of this teacher and swiftly/quietly finish their course without any problems. In my second class, there was a presentation from my classmates that mentioned about immersion, language loss, code switching, etc. I shared a dialogue between my mom and I, I had

I started my online Chinese American Identity course in another CSU campus. It's a pain because it's more work (readings/papers) to do, and I have to get books for it. The professor seems pretty alright so far, but was not very helpful in helping me into the online system. Luckily, I resolved the issue myself as the professors I had contacted weren't able to help me.

I have about 5 more weeks to go in my regular program, and about 9 more weeks for the online course and student teaching. Let's hope all this goes well! And one last random note: I miss Taiwan! Hope I can go back there sometime soon. nom nom nom