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Since my last post, my coughing has improved significantly!!! I'm feeling quite well and even energetic, which is a good thing, because I'm majorly busy with all kinds of projects. Some of those projects aren't getting the attention they deserve, but I am actually feeling not too bad about my List of Doom at the moment, so I'm not going to kick myself just yet. Progress is being made on many fronts, and those neglected (but not forgotten) things on the List will get their turn shortly.
The big thing on for today is an evening training session -- starring yours truly as the trainer! I am the official director of English as a Second Language at our Center, and the rest of the staff decided it would be good if they got better training. So I'm doing it. I've only had a little bit of training myself, but I've had some smatterings of experience both here and overseas teaching ESL (by the seat of my pants) -- and since the best thing my official training did for me was give me confidence, I guess I can handle the session tonight! Even if I don't do a fantastic job, it won't matter -- we're all friends there, so it will be less like a seminar and more like a group of people who know each other getting together and talking about stuff.
Even so, I'm still slightly nervous. ;-) Also, my voice has been pretty wonky and unreliable after months of coughing, so I'm praying I won't lose my voice or start coughing halfway through!!
Trying to decide what to NOT get into is harder than deciding what to share -- but I'm getting a feel for it. Good thing, too, as I only have about 6 hours left before I'm up front and talking.
Well, I better get back to it! I have to have all my ducks in a row by mid-afternoon, so I can go set up, make copies of handouts, make sure my laptop hooks up to the projector properly, etc. etc. Nice that I only have to walk about 200 feet from my back door to the Center -- we live that close! I can literally leave at the last minute -- and run home in seconds if I forget anything!
The big thing on for today is an evening training session -- starring yours truly as the trainer! I am the official director of English as a Second Language at our Center, and the rest of the staff decided it would be good if they got better training. So I'm doing it. I've only had a little bit of training myself, but I've had some smatterings of experience both here and overseas teaching ESL (by the seat of my pants) -- and since the best thing my official training did for me was give me confidence, I guess I can handle the session tonight! Even if I don't do a fantastic job, it won't matter -- we're all friends there, so it will be less like a seminar and more like a group of people who know each other getting together and talking about stuff.
Even so, I'm still slightly nervous. ;-) Also, my voice has been pretty wonky and unreliable after months of coughing, so I'm praying I won't lose my voice or start coughing halfway through!!
Trying to decide what to NOT get into is harder than deciding what to share -- but I'm getting a feel for it. Good thing, too, as I only have about 6 hours left before I'm up front and talking.
Well, I better get back to it! I have to have all my ducks in a row by mid-afternoon, so I can go set up, make copies of handouts, make sure my laptop hooks up to the projector properly, etc. etc. Nice that I only have to walk about 200 feet from my back door to the Center -- we live that close! I can literally leave at the last minute -- and run home in seconds if I forget anything!
