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Umm. I pressed enter and published a paragraph. Right, no pressing of enter! So, a month has elapsed since I started my new job. A crazy month of firsts: Meetings, conference calls, lesson observations, emailing, office exercises, speeches, writing stories, thinking of charcters, commuting in the peak rush hour, and generally being in an office for 9 hours. It's been an experience, both fun and nerve wracking. I can't believe a month has passed already. How time flies when you're busy with all those things I just mentioned. It takes some getting used to. One of the main things I've learnt is probably that I can just be myself. I don't have to force a creative opinion when I don't have one. Sometimes the boss asks us what we think of something, and at the beginning I rushed to give my opinion even if I didn't really have anything worth saying. Now I just speak if I have something valuable to say. I suppose this is a natural progression. Unfortuantely, I rarely have anything valuable to say! Ha ha. And I think I'm kidding...But this is really a rewarding job. At the moment we have basically been preparing ourselves for the work that lies ahead, but over the next month we should start getting into the meat of our task, which I'm looking forward to. Thinking of ideas to entertain and educate the sproggs is cool. And I'm looking forward to see what the final textbook will look like. You'll notice by now that I'm not using paragraphs. This is because if I do, I'll have to write another post! My, how tempting it is to press return! Today I observed, or rather joined in with 5 kids' lessons. It was really good fun. It is nearing Halloween so everyone was in fancydress. I went as the "Cat in the hat", and Frankenstein's monster. One kid wouldn't stop stealing my hat! Anyway, tis the weekend and I'm going to watch "Intolerable Cruelty". I don't have high expectations but....Wow, I'm already getting fat! I just felt the existence of my belly...Office work,eh. Must exercise more...must exercise more...must watch telly more....oops.
posted by PA on Friday, October 29, 2004
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