Daily Archives: January 16, 2008

15 January 2008

 OK so I did not hit publish – I hit Save. Here is the missing post from yesterday.

15 January 2008 – Tuesday

 It was a tiring but good day for us. Mary did not sleep well, but I felt much better. Seswanto gave us some good/bad news. The good news is that he got a new job but the bad news is that he will have to leave our class. This is the first time we had someone actually drop out but since he has been looking for a job for almost a year, it is great that he finally has one that will allow him to use his accounting skills.

 We split up the class for the morning session and then since Mary needed to leave to teach her English class for the office staff, I took the afternoon class. She and Sam got back just as the class ended so we were able to go home for an hour and get some dinner.

 For the evening class we played a number of games.  By the time we got home we were both very tired and so after answering some e-mail, we headed off to bed.

 One event sticks in my mind. When we were walking out with the students I asked them if they were finding it easier to communicate in English. Erna said they were doing better than they thought they could and thank me. I mentioned that the class started just 8 days ago and ask them to imagine how well they will be doing in 3 more weeks. I think one of them might pass the Michigan test – at least I certainly hope so.



16 January 2008

16 January 2008 – Wednesday

 I think this blog is trying to tell me something. Yesterday I wrote a post and was I hit ‘publish.’ However I just noticed that the post is not there. So either I have completely lost my mind – I heard that ‘not much to lose’ – or the blog is now editing my posts. I admit that the post was not very interesting but it did have a couple of events that I felt were worth mentioning.  Oh well – onward and upward.

A letter from Cindy mentions that Mike has borken one of his fingers – no mention of which one or how. Hopefully we will not be kept in suspense for ever. Kristy continues to post great pictures of Charlotte and Olivia – I just printed one of them so proud grandmother can show it to all the people she teaches today.

 Yesterday was a normal IEC day. Because one of our students got a call about a job he really needs and went home last night, we are down to 5 students and Sam. I gave them all heart attacks when I made them give their short morning talks without any notes. They did fine and once they get use to this, they will continue to do better.

Both Mary and I seem to always be tired. I do not remember this problem during other Intensive English Classes. Perhaps it is because we had to spend so much energy and time on the High School English class that we came into the class already tired.

The students are great and hardly complain about the piles of homework we give them each night. When you realize that they did not have homework in any quantity before, it is amazing that they do so well.  I have real hopes that one or more of these students will get in the high 70’s and perhaps one might make the magic 82 on the Michigan test. It would be great if someone could qualify for BYUH.

OK – lets see if this posts!