Several months ago, Jamie, the sort of 'local area boss' told me about a conference. He wanted me to speak at it. After some persuasion, I agreed. Eventually the posters were produced and the teachers were booked and I was given a brief. Prepare about ten lessons. That was it!
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| The conference poster |
Well I am not the best at following commands at the best of times, but this was too vague! I asked several times more an d was eventually referred to Angela. She was our 'manager'. It helps tha I know Angela. I asked her what it was all about. She started to ask questions, with the distinctive advantage of being able to speak Chinese! Eventually after a lot of tooing and froing the information started to drip through. It was a conference for Cinese English teachers from a nearby county. They would be paying to attend. I would be required to do a series of fourteen lessons to three diffrent classes of teachers. One primary calss and two junior high classes. Five other teachers would be following a similar breif. Then fourteen hours grew to sixteen, a timetable emerged, and changed, and changed again. Eventually everything settled down, well as much as it could settel down in China! So, I have started preapring my lessons, with no idea what the other six are producing and just hoping that there is no overlap. I have treid to aonctact the others with littel success, so I am going for the obscure end of teaching in the belief that there is less chance of an overlap with the others. We shall wait and see!
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