I have to admit that trying to teach 9 year-olds without any training is next to impossible, but here is the visible evidence that at least they didn't hate me.
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| I may not have been the best voluntary,unqualified unpaid teacher in the world or even in Moldova but at least I tried...... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Below are pictures of some of my charges at what I seem to recall was called Chisinau Primary School No 56. I only hope that the poor things have not been mentally scarred by the crimes I committed in my pursuit to spread English around the globe. They seemed to like me, which was something, anyway, and perhaps they benefited from me being there in some small way. I don't suppose I shall ever really know! The audio clip that you may be hearing is from a surreptitious recording I made of one of my lessons. Like Richard Nixon, I may be damned by my own words. Expletives are deleted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| One day, when we all got rather bored with discussing the finer points of the subjunctive, I made the children clothes out of the classroom's curtains and we went for a sing-song in the park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Oh what a good (if rather messy) teacher you are!" I have to admit that trying to teach 9 year-olds without any training is next to impossible, but here is the visible evidence that at least they didn't hate me. |
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| An end-of-term treat: my pupils club together to buy me as many vodkas and orange as I can manage. By this time, I was starting to look ever more Moldovan, partly because I feared that my Russian was not up to directing a hairdresser. In reality, I tried to make up for my ineptitude by taking my classes out for pizza and orange juice at the local bar-cum-cafe that me and my fellow English manglers came to think of as our staffroom. Bizzarely, I appear to have NO grey hair in this photo. How did that happen then? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3/10 Very poor work, Michael. See me after school. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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