I had my first day of teaching and back to work today and it was exactly adjust on Teacher’s day.
Well I don’t know how much in Europe take care of this day, possibly not too much ,but in Asia and middle East ,we respect teachers in different levels by buying flowers, greeting cards, saying nice words shows appreciation, being more polite and nice in classrooms or other ways.
Students were so excited specially men to see a female teacher.
As my teaching style goes in this way that for the first session they should ask me questions and I check their level and grammar and so on, therefore some were shrewd enough to ask about my age and my marital status and my mobile number, that was funny though.
I came up with some hints to tell them what kind of questions socially accepted in West and polite and what separated as being informal and bit rude and not convenience to ask someone you meet for first time…
Anyhow I had great day back to work. it was hard starting the day to wake up earlier while Wijb had time in bed and I had to work and after 3 months off from work.
Anyhow my Ms engineering students were so nice and eager to learn I had 4 hours sweet teaching and feel adjust for next week teaching.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Our big feast and annual teachers meeting:
From the University management we received an invitation for a big meal on a hotel close to the university’s office department. It was Tuesday night and almost one hour earlier I received 2 phone calls one after the other for changing the schedule .It was not very sweet though.
As usually big meal( Business dinners) open discussions and it is a great time talk to the bosses and melt the difficulties, they came up with new timetable for me and some other stuff.
In fact that dinner was good in so many ways.
We met new teachers and some of our old colleagues .Wijb was so happy to talk about his hobbies with some other men!
Some new females were so interested to see how long we have our relations ship and how we met. Well that was out of blue. But I can understand a lot of westerners desperately looking for men to get married. I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSELF and Wijb and we felt at the end everyone look at us and admire ,so we are so lucky, both!.
The food was so much and variety of dishes and sea food and of course toasting wine. We tried to escape from that but it was unavoidable and inconvenience. In fact after having 3 glasses we felt woozy and at night we both had wired night mares!
As usually big meal( Business dinners) open discussions and it is a great time talk to the bosses and melt the difficulties, they came up with new timetable for me and some other stuff.
In fact that dinner was good in so many ways.
We met new teachers and some of our old colleagues .Wijb was so happy to talk about his hobbies with some other men!
Some new females were so interested to see how long we have our relations ship and how we met. Well that was out of blue. But I can understand a lot of westerners desperately looking for men to get married. I WAS SO PROUD OF MYSELF and Wijb and we felt at the end everyone look at us and admire ,so we are so lucky, both!.
The food was so much and variety of dishes and sea food and of course toasting wine. We tried to escape from that but it was unavoidable and inconvenience. In fact after having 3 glasses we felt woozy and at night we both had wired night mares!
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