First in Flight!

We booked our flight to Prague today!  So exciting.  Then we spent like 30 minutes calling the airlines to make sure that we're sitting together.  The whole time I was on the phone with Alexandra and the airlines (1 hour and 15 minutes), I thought that I was talking to her Verizon to Verizon.  The moment I realized I wasn't, I hung up!  That is so many daytime minutes....now I'll have to cut back!  Next we need to book our hostel, since we'll be looking for apartments our first week there.  Should be pretty interesting.  The excitement of leaving is mixed with all of the uncertainties.  

Al posted some questions on a blog cafe and this one guy keeps responding to everyone else who has positive things to responding to Al's questions.  Its like he's a super hater and is trying to dissuade people from wanting to teach English in Prague.  I'm still staying positive, but I hate that I "hear" his nagging voice in the back of my mind.  

On a positive note, I'm going to complete my 20 hours of classroom observation/tutoring on time.  I've been observing at De Anza College and its so much fun.  Its really rewarding and makes me think that I'm doing something that will be so rewarding.  I just hope that we'll have a bunch of interviews scheduled for the first week that we're there. 

The online course is getting tougher.  We're learning grammar, which is tough in itself.  We take the English language for granted.  All of the rules and whatnot are going to be a challenge to teach, but who doesn't love a challenge.  It keeps things interesting...

Learn The Basics

I had quite a busy week...I finally got to observe an ESL class at De Anza College and it was really eye-opening.  The class itself was really fun and the students were really amazing.  They are so excited and dedicated to learning English.  I took a ton of notes and the Professor is an amazing teacher!  She's been doing it for 17 years and she went to Japan to teach her first EFL class!  But she's Czech, which I think is totally a sign.  I learned that most of the De Anza ESL teachers taught abroad for at least a year, and then they came back, got their masters and all got jobs at De Anza. So there's an idea for what to do when I get back, if I'm a good teacher.  

I went to Wicked with my friend Veronnica yesterday, she's also taking the TEFL course and wants to teach in Prague.  While we were at lunch she started telling me all of the Czech words/phrases she knew.  And it sounded fluent to me.  Which made me think...why haven't I gotten a Czech language CD yet?  And do they have one on iTunes?  Well, I looked into the iTunes option, and the reviews were really terrible.  So I checked out Amazon, and it looks like I'm going to order a CD from there....I'll keep you posted on how tough it is!

Alexandra and I still haven't  bought our flights yet, but I'm sure that we will soon.  And one of my new friends offered to throw me a going away party....I'm excited!