Weekend
I’m about to survive my first week in the second summer camp.
The good news is that there are much smaller groups and
they’re slower, so we do less but it takes time. The bad news
is that it’s still hard work and kids aren’t motivated. It
cannot be helped. I try to pass my time and leave asap.
The little ones are a terrible mix from first to fourth graders,
so while some do handouts others get to colour pictures
(otherwise they burst into tears!). Sometimes I feel I am
very cruel by insisitng on correct spelling but if not me, who else?
What’s also good, I received my pay for the first camp.
My other work is slowly going forward too. I excpect to
start Present Simple with the two low-levels and
Present Continuous wth the higher-one. I’ve got
only one month left but that is manageable. What is
left to be desired is their actually learning new words by heart.
I hate to do all the speaking because they keep
ruffling their notes for that or another word.
There are also two or possibly three private students
who want lessons but I’m fully booked, so I will pass them onto
my Mom. I’m going to the local tax inspection tomorrow
to sort out the paperwork. I’m also seeing my dentist,
working and meeting a friend from Poland.
My toe stitches were removed yesterday and the doctor
will phone me in case my mole biopsy test was bad. I cannot
wait to go picking berries this weekend! Below you can see some
pictures of what our berries are like.
lilaac Said,
July 4, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Hello!
Those berries are very familiar to me, I live in Finland. Are they already ripe enough to eat there? We have to wait still a couple of weeks before we can pick them. First strawberries are ripen in strawberry fields but a hard hailstorm destroyed a crop in some farms near my home town the day before yesterday. Cars had also bad damages.
Lilaac
kootvela Said,
July 4, 2008 @ 5:43 pm
Hello!
Yes, they are ripe and ready to be eaten! Two more weeks and they are gone until the next year. I hope to go for them tomorrow but rain in Lithuania is unpredictable…
Also, these are wild strawberries, meaning, they grow in forests. The big real strawberries are around all year- some ours, some imported.
lilaac Said,
July 5, 2008 @ 10:00 am
Hi
I was walking yesterday and I saw ripe wild strawberries by the road. I wanted to taste them but I preferred better not to because they grew so near the road and were perhaps not very clean.
I like picking berries and as we have so called “everyman´s right” in Finland it is a priviledge to get extra food to a freezer for the winter - and for free! I think we still have a pure nature to have healthy berries and mushrooms.
kootvela Said,
July 5, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
That’s right. We had a good time and got home right before it started to rain. We are planning another trip on Monday. We even found a few mushrooms, just enough for a soup. Yay!