Thursday, October 23, 2008

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I couldn't think of an appropiate title, which is quite normal given that I'm blogging after..6 months! Think I should give this one up and create a whole new one?
I figured I'd blog now given that I'm exceptionally bored, well, bored is a bit of a stretch. Non-enthused, would be more like it, but you can't blame me, look out the window! (For people who are reading this much later, it's the monsoon season in Chennai and the rains have been fairly frequent this year) No one wants to work early morning when it's cool outside. The entire pace has slowed down completely and it's not just me. Everything and person at home is just feeling 'blah', and the cats, umm well, the cats are always like that, so I can't really spot the difference.

Coming back to what I am doing now, I am a French teacher and Course-coordinator at INaWORD Centre for Languages in Adyar. I work half the day and sleep off the rest. Teaching full time is HARD WORK! Well, the entire year's sort of been leading to this, what with teaching English first and now French. I work a lot more than I used to before!
I teach French to ICSE students and some StateBoard students. The ICSE program is fun in the sense that I get to set the portions and the paper (there is no textbook). For the people who followed the 'Mantra' at school, my God, isn't it the most boring book ever!?!

Course-coordinating as such doesn't really take up much of my time, I work from 9 to noon and I'm done, only to have classes again in the evening.
Besides all of this, I also managed to complete my 1st Level of German =), which I can assure you is not a big deal. But hey, I did pass (and well) and am pretty gut.

Guten Tag, Anusha!
Guten Tag, Herr Dr. Iyer!
Wie geht es Ihnen?
Danke, gut! Und Ihnen?
Sehr Gut!
Dr. Iyer, Sie haben ein lächerlich Gesicht!
Was?!!!

It's ok. We all make mistakes.
Unrelated note: If you believe, as I do, that listening to the right song can really change your mood, then : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvNM9kj6d8
If you can understand Punjabi, that is.