Ahh meetings
So here it is Thursday afternoon, school starts on Monday and I have no clue what I'm going to be teaching these kids. According to the schedule for the week we were given on Monday, we'd have all afternoon on Wednesday, all but about two hours today, and all of tomorrow to work in our rooms on classes and stuff. As it's stood so far, I've had about a half hour on Wednesday, about two hours today, and God only knows tomorrow because of all of our meetings and things. I've learned quickly that meetings aren't always a good thing. Something that should only take about 10 - 15 minutes quickly escalates to over an hour just because of all the discussions that happen. Do any of these discussions lead to any conclusions? Generally, no. But hey, such is life, right?
For anyone who's curious, here's our holiday schedule for the year: (Interestingly enough, we not only get government holidays & Christian holidays off, we also get Muslim holidays off.)
August 2: First day of school
August 17: National Day (essentially, Indonesia's Independence Day)
September 13: Ascension of Muhammad
October 2 - October 10: First Quarter break (Bali here we come!)
November 12 - November 21: Idul Fitri (essentially, a sort of Muslim Christmas or Thanksgiving)
December 18 - January 9: Semester I/Christmas break (Yeah, only three weeks. Last year it was six because it was combined with Idul Fitri, which occured later in the year last year) We'll be back in the states during this break, so if you wanna see us, make a trip to Nebraska!
March 19 - March 27: Third Quarter break
May 5: Ascension of Christ
June 17: Last day of school.
From the sound of it, there are a few other holidays and celebrations that haven't been added to the schedule yet just because there hasn't been a date set for them yet. But that's pretty much our school year.
I'll be teaching Drama to grades 7 - 10, 8th grade English and Religion to grades 10 & 11. Erin's teaching 10 - 12th grade English & 7th grade Humanities (social studies, geography, history, etc.)
We also have a homeroom class, Erin's got about 17 11th graders (I think) and I've got 8 10th graders. Our classrooms are right next door to each other and my Drama room is right below. The Drama room is really nice. It's sort of a Black Box theatre type space. I look forward to doing some shows and stuff there. As I believe I said previously, the school is huge, with 6 stories. Luckily, our classrooms are on the second floor, right at the front of the building and the Drama room's on the ground floor. It means we don't have to march up a bunch of stairs every morning, unlike Katie, who's classroom is on the top floor at the very back of the building.
Teaching will be interesting. The school follows the International Baccalaureate program, which is difficult to explain but somewhat different from how most American classes are structured. It's kind of interesting. If you wanna check out stuff about the program, check out their website. Erin & I both teach in the MYP, Middle Years Program. With IB, the MYP is from grade 6 - 10 (7 - 10 in our school) so as I said, it's a little different than US school structure.
Anyhow, I think I might try to work on some stuff here at home, although I'll probably just end up watching TV until Katie & Kale come over to pick us up for dinner. We're going out to a nearby restaurant/bar called Marihya's, they've got pretty good food, with a mixture of native, steaks & Mexican food.
Until next time!
For anyone who's curious, here's our holiday schedule for the year: (Interestingly enough, we not only get government holidays & Christian holidays off, we also get Muslim holidays off.)
August 2: First day of school
August 17: National Day (essentially, Indonesia's Independence Day)
September 13: Ascension of Muhammad
October 2 - October 10: First Quarter break (Bali here we come!)
November 12 - November 21: Idul Fitri (essentially, a sort of Muslim Christmas or Thanksgiving)
December 18 - January 9: Semester I/Christmas break (Yeah, only three weeks. Last year it was six because it was combined with Idul Fitri, which occured later in the year last year) We'll be back in the states during this break, so if you wanna see us, make a trip to Nebraska!
March 19 - March 27: Third Quarter break
May 5: Ascension of Christ
June 17: Last day of school.
From the sound of it, there are a few other holidays and celebrations that haven't been added to the schedule yet just because there hasn't been a date set for them yet. But that's pretty much our school year.
I'll be teaching Drama to grades 7 - 10, 8th grade English and Religion to grades 10 & 11. Erin's teaching 10 - 12th grade English & 7th grade Humanities (social studies, geography, history, etc.)
We also have a homeroom class, Erin's got about 17 11th graders (I think) and I've got 8 10th graders. Our classrooms are right next door to each other and my Drama room is right below. The Drama room is really nice. It's sort of a Black Box theatre type space. I look forward to doing some shows and stuff there. As I believe I said previously, the school is huge, with 6 stories. Luckily, our classrooms are on the second floor, right at the front of the building and the Drama room's on the ground floor. It means we don't have to march up a bunch of stairs every morning, unlike Katie, who's classroom is on the top floor at the very back of the building.
Teaching will be interesting. The school follows the International Baccalaureate program, which is difficult to explain but somewhat different from how most American classes are structured. It's kind of interesting. If you wanna check out stuff about the program, check out their website. Erin & I both teach in the MYP, Middle Years Program. With IB, the MYP is from grade 6 - 10 (7 - 10 in our school) so as I said, it's a little different than US school structure.
Anyhow, I think I might try to work on some stuff here at home, although I'll probably just end up watching TV until Katie & Kale come over to pick us up for dinner. We're going out to a nearby restaurant/bar called Marihya's, they've got pretty good food, with a mixture of native, steaks & Mexican food.
Until next time!
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