Two Syllables, Sounds Like ...

Busy busy busy.

Things I’ve learned in the past few days:

• Learning to teach ESL is just one big lesson in charades.

• It’s better to over prepare and have things go awry than to wing it.

• Boys from the land of Borat don’t sound anything like him.

• Sleep is overrated, and I don’t miss it as much as I thought I would.

• People who stand next to the tube doors in the morning are just as rude and stupid as they were a year ago. It’s good to know there are some constants in this ever-changing world.

• There is a level of diminishing returns for additional preparation, but I haven’t found the balance yet.

• Having to teach the passive for one's first "real" teaching practice is a cruel joke from the grammar gods. Next one is vocabulary about criminals. That' more up my alley.

• I need to work on anchoring myself. No news there.