Ready, Set, Teach...

Well, it has been another crazy week. As of Monday afternoon, I officially completely took over the conceptual physics class. I am completely in charge of lessons. grading, etc. Ian (my cooperating teacher) has been really supportive and I feel that I was really luck to be paired with him. Random coincidence: Ian lived next to Ryan Walker, my former piano teacher's son, when he worked as a elementary music teacher at SAS. They used to hang out all the time and play video games with each other. I feel like most of my "it feels like a small world" moment have something to do with the Walkers.

Tuesday was my host sister's birthday so we had a special dinner and dirt cake (you know the kind of cake with pudding, crushed, Oreos and gummy worms) for desert. Not too much exciting on Wednesday except that I got a letter from Kristopher (I sent out a bunch of letters and postcards on Monday but have not gotten to everyone yet so if you don't get one, hopefully I will get to some more soon).

Ian had to go to India for a Tech conference on Thursday and Friday. The School is starting a program called 1 to 1, meaning that they are requiring all students to have laptops as of next year. Ian was going to a school that had a similar program to get an idea of how best to utilize the laptops. This meant that, though there was a sub in the room for legal reasons, I taught all the classes. It was a little stressful but overall I think it went really well. I did notice that having been around Ian most of the day for the last week and a half I have started to pick up his Canadian accent.

Friday night there was a little excitement her. Around midnight, the Air cons all went out and it started getting hot fast. To try and fix that, they tried resetting the circuit breaker. That got the air con back but then most of the house lost power (though it parts it would go in and out) and in the morning there was not any water pressure. I was looking forward to some good sleep as I had not slept well the night before but the heat in the room kept me up.

Yesterday then, feeling very sleepy from the poor sleeping conditions, I went over to county fair. Just to be clear, Singapore does not have counties. It only has one city. County Fair is just the name of a fundraiser put on by the school where they do county fair type things; fry foods, carnival games, bake offs, etc. It was a lot of fun. I ran into a lot of the students I have in class working at the various stands and they tried to get me to do the activities at their booths. I did some but some, like the nail painting stand, I had to pass up. Rebecca, the middle child in my host family, performed in the talent show thing with the Irish Dance group and they did a really great job.

Last night I walked over to the hawkers stand and got some bubble tea, played around of authors (fun game like go fish except with books) and went to bed early in the nice newly fix AC. This morning, we went out to eat at chili's for Kat's birthday and wandered around the mall a little. I have some work to get done before tomorrow otherwise I plan to just have a chill day.