Punishment?! This week in recap.

One day in class a student refused to participate, so as punishment I made him go up in front of the whole class and sing an English song, embarrassing right??? Not so much, apparently the class loved to sing! After the student was finished students started to volunteer to sing songs! They loved it, they begged me to let them sing a song so I finally typed up "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", but I didn't know the second line, thankfully the students were able to help. Then after class a little girl came up to me and sang a beautiful song, it sounded very opera-y, I couldn't quite catch the title. After another class, 2 kids sang a duet and rehearsed a small skit they were practicing for a talent show. Later that night I went home and listened to all my iTunes songs to see what is suitable for kids to sing, it took me an hour because I was being so picky. I finally decided on 4 different songs: Bright Eyes "First Day of My Life", John Mayer "Waiting on the World to Change", Dave Matthews "Everyday" and Backstreet Boys "I Want it that Way" (I included this because a lot of students said it was their favorite band, and I wouldn't mind listening to them...). But to my surprise the next day, the kids had rather played games! I guess it all depends on the student.

In the other class we were playing charades, where you had to act out the city you wanted to go to and write a story about it. One group decided they wanted to go to Thailand to see the ladymen, but they chickened out in the last minute. Sometimes I really like teaching.

On another note, Sam and I explored the city last night and stumbled on a really cool open air market type place. Yet again I left my camera at home so there are no pictures, I think I would have felt awkward taking pictures anyway, it wasn't very touristy. We actually saw a student there and he recognized us, and said hi, he seemed shocked we were in that part of town.