First two lessons finished!

Well, I intended to update this yesterday, but unfortunately it took far longer for me to create my lesson plan then I thought it would.

*insert 3 hour break, my last steak in Canada and three glasses of beer*

It's good to be back. The model lessons I taught yesterday and today were quite challenging. Having now taught two native Japanese speakers, I feel much more confident in my abilities as an English teacher. That's not to say that I feel I've come anywhere close to mastering the GEOS method of teaching, but I'm somewhat better at it (I think). I had a few problems with my course yesterday and a few more problems with it today. But, if I look over the shortcomings of these two lessons, I figure I can probably learn from my errors.

It's been a pretty crazy day. It was nice to get the second teaching demonstration out of the way. Just have to worry about all the lessons for the rest of the year now. Speaking of which, I got my schedule today. It's a little bit different then what I thought it would be. I actually don't have any classes earlier then 1:00, so I guess my days start a little later then I thought they would. I'll update this later, but I tend to have a lot of open spaces.

We've been having dinner at various bars around our hotel the past couple nights. Today it was Wings, which is just a half block down from the hotel. Very good food, nice decor, and conducive to intelligent, if somewhat drunken at times, conversation. On the way there though tonight we walked around the neighbourhood a little bit looking for a different place. We'd already been to Wings a couple of times and the night before our bar was a little bit underwhelming. As we walked through the neighbourhood we were confronted with one of the most bizarre sights I've seen in my time on this earth. An old man in a hospital gown and some white underclothes wheeled past our group in a wheel chair while expressing insane utterances as though cthulu himself had infested his mind and soul.

Weird.

Vancouver's really beautiful though. Huge construction boom right now for the Olympics. They're already building the Sky Traing station that's extending across the bay. Speaking of views, wow. The GEOS school has an AMAZING view just down the way close to the ocean. I'll get some pictures of that tomorrow hopefully. Not sure if I'll be able to upload them for a while though. I'll be in Japan a couple weeks before I can get phone and internet.

Anyways though, I gotta do a bit of homework, I'll post again tomorrow before going dark for a week.