Chapter 4
So today is sunday. I woke up early and although i had a huge desire to drop my head into my pillow again, LOTR overcame that desire. I quickly sneaked to play 5 mins of LOTR.. Afterwards, i dressed up and went to church. These days i cannot concentrate at the sermons, unless its a topic that i can relate to, or something that interests me. Because i attend the chinese congregation and i don't understand very well, and i don't really know how to make fast notes all in chinese. If not, i'll just stare at the Pastor and think/dream of something else, sometimes, dreaming about winning lotr game shows...
And so, after the sermon and everything, i got down the canteen where everyone was. It was tuition time!!! I was really hoping that the china kid wouldn't return today after my horrible teaching last week. To my dismay, i saw him sitting quietly on a chair...but i told myself i shouldn't be thinking this way.. So, i got some assesment books and started to teach him..Then my friend Ziling asked another boy if he wanted me to teach him english...in my heart, i was hoping he'd say yes...but he thought i was fierce so he didn't =( It really really really hard to teach english...its not only that, this boy's from China, and he's one head taller than me and he's in p5. He doesn't know a single thing about english. MEANING, i had to teach him english in chinese, and to add on to that, i didnt learn english the way everyone learnt english and so i didnt know what was what. I read, i don't listen to people teaching english. But over that last few weeks, i learnt many things as well, i learnt plural and singular stuff!! Yes, so it was a real difficulty, i had to do some serious translation... and he kept nodding his head, i knew that he didnt understand a single word because i wouldnt to, i have never truly listened to any english teacher teach before... so i constantly told him, “ 我知道我现在教你，你不会明白，英文是靠读课外书的。" Which meant, " i know that by teaching you now, you wouldn't understand, for english, you have to read more. " Which is true isn't it?
And so, after the sermon and everything, i got down the canteen where everyone was. It was tuition time!!! I was really hoping that the china kid wouldn't return today after my horrible teaching last week. To my dismay, i saw him sitting quietly on a chair...but i told myself i shouldn't be thinking this way.. So, i got some assesment books and started to teach him..Then my friend Ziling asked another boy if he wanted me to teach him english...in my heart, i was hoping he'd say yes...but he thought i was fierce so he didn't =( It really really really hard to teach english...its not only that, this boy's from China, and he's one head taller than me and he's in p5. He doesn't know a single thing about english. MEANING, i had to teach him english in chinese, and to add on to that, i didnt learn english the way everyone learnt english and so i didnt know what was what. I read, i don't listen to people teaching english. But over that last few weeks, i learnt many things as well, i learnt plural and singular stuff!! Yes, so it was a real difficulty, i had to do some serious translation... and he kept nodding his head, i knew that he didnt understand a single word because i wouldnt to, i have never truly listened to any english teacher teach before... so i constantly told him, “ 我知道我现在教你，你不会明白，英文是靠读课外书的。" Which meant, " i know that by teaching you now, you wouldn't understand, for english, you have to read more. " Which is true isn't it?
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