In Other Words

Games and ladies

Yesterday I played computer games. It has been a long time since I played computer games. Well, not really. I should really say that it has been a long time since I played PC strategy games. It was interesting, but not half as fun as I remembered it. Still, I played for quite a while just be certain that I really felt that way. I might have to try it again in a little while.

It’s a bit like picking up chocolate one day and then coming to the realisation that you don’t really like it anymore. It still tastes the same, feels the same and looks it again, but it just doesn’t taste that good. Realising this is probably a good development you still can’t quite believe it and, after a time of consideration, decide to go back and try it again, just to be sure, realising full well that you might come to enjoy it again and waste time and money consuming the sweet sweet chocolate.

I had a good lesson this morning. A young lady on vacation here from Europe came to our school to improve her English. She had learned it in school for five years, but had never really learned anything more than the grammar, so she had taken our (rather expensive lessons) in order to be able to socialise (she is even following the social track).

The problem, however, is that she finished her current track last week and she still has a week of lessons left. I walked in, stumped as to what I was to teach her, except that it said something about ‘magazines’ on her card. One word is not a great deal of information when you have to teach somebody for the next 2 and bit hours.

Anyway. The first fourty minutes we just talked, I asked her questions (tried to get her to ask me questions, but she told me - in no uncertain terms - that she didn’t have any) then I ran downstairs, picked up two papers, and we spent the next two fourty minute periods talking about different stories in the newspaper. It was, as you might imagine, both enjoyable and. Ultimately it would be nice to have lessons like that all the time. I’ll just have to figure out how to teach while I talk.

posted by Symbol @ 10.10.05