I really like my job. Recently, my work has been to watch "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" with my students (see below), playing duck-duck-goose outside on a beautiful day amidst breathtaking mountain scenery, and showing my kids 50 Cent albums. Last week, we made decorations for this week's Christmas-Channukah holiday lesson (I'm playin Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" and telling the story of Chanukkah).
I for real enjoy working here. Everywhere I go my students yell, "Teacher Brett! Teacher Brett! You are so handsome!" (I attribute the latter partly to my actually being handsome, partly to the fact that I am the only non-Taiwanese person most of them have ever met, and partly to the fact that "you are so handsome" is one of the few complete phrases they know in English).
My students are all middle schoolers (7th, 8th, and 9th grade) and are generally pretty cool plus good students, except for that one girl who was looking up "Christmas-themed condoms" in class last week when she was supposed to be finding holiday season gifts (ok, maybe she was on task).
Here is the "Fresh Prince" clip I showed em, which coincidentally illustrates my teaching style (I essentially did this exact routine the other day in class to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"). The "Fresh Prince" thing was funny bcuz I was trying to explain the concept of the show to them: "So you see, first he is a poor man, but now he is a rich man..." and my students were like, "if he is the prince then who is the king?" and I'm like, "i don't know, Uncle Phil?"
Here are some pictures of the Rogn Yuan campus, one of the two schools I teach at.
I for real enjoy working here. Everywhere I go my students yell, "Teacher Brett! Teacher Brett! You are so handsome!" (I attribute the latter partly to my actually being handsome, partly to the fact that I am the only non-Taiwanese person most of them have ever met, and partly to the fact that "you are so handsome" is one of the few complete phrases they know in English).
My students are all middle schoolers (7th, 8th, and 9th grade) and are generally pretty cool plus good students, except for that one girl who was looking up "Christmas-themed condoms" in class last week when she was supposed to be finding holiday season gifts (ok, maybe she was on task).
Here is the "Fresh Prince" clip I showed em, which coincidentally illustrates my teaching style (I essentially did this exact routine the other day in class to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"). The "Fresh Prince" thing was funny bcuz I was trying to explain the concept of the show to them: "So you see, first he is a poor man, but now he is a rich man..." and my students were like, "if he is the prince then who is the king?" and I'm like, "i don't know, Uncle Phil?"
Here are some pictures of the Rogn Yuan campus, one of the two schools I teach at.
4 comments:
It really does look beatiful. (I don't think she was on task.) And I am telling you: you were louder than WS at your Bar Mitzvah.
Dz
hmm i don't know if they qualify as middle schoolers. more like junior high/hs. and i have to disagree with anonymous, i would say she was on task as long as she was planning to give the condoms as gifts lol. and that fresh prince scene was great! how long do you think he had to practice that? it so contrasts his recent roles. just watched seven pounds, so that was a good reminder of his old days
Office Boyfriend Brett! You are so handsome!
ya, i say Uncle Phil.
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