Hey all, welcome to my blog - it's a bit empty at the minute but it has only just been made, hopefully I'll be able to make it look a little better with the help of a few friends... if they're feeling generous of course.
Anyhow, I was on my training course last week up on the wee scottish isle of Coll. We did absolutely tons in that week, we had sessions on culture shock, health overseas, teaching and loads of other topics, aswell as actually teaching a few lessons ourselves. The lessons went fairly well giving me a massive confidence boost (especially the second lesson - since I'm usually terrified of getting up and talking in front of people, being able to stand up and teach English to English people for 20 minutes without laughing - like I did in the first lesson - made me feel a bit better about teaching in general).
I also learned alot about my project itself, which is in a town called Oji in Kita-ku, Tokyo. I'll be teaching English at Junten High School to all three of the junior grades and two of the senior grades but I'll also be helping out at an elementary school and teaching conversational english to the Parents/Teachers association. So anyone who thought that my gap year sounded like a holiday, this is going to be a bloody hard working holiday!
Big thanks to all of the Project Trust staff and the other (around 50 I think) volunteers on the course who were all really friendly and a great laugh. Have fun in Guyana and Uganda.
Oh and just to add this on at the end, for those who don't know, I broke my collar bone on training after the ceilidh. I got slightly intoxicated and ended up falling off a sand dune. Bet you didnt see that coming!
Anyway, I think I've gone on for well more than enough, sorry about that. My next blog will probably be just before I go or just after I arrive,
Later.
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i see you thought of a name for your blog then! hehe. It's looking good =)
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