frustration
I taught my first lesson today. In a word, I was crap. That's right, it took me 5 hours to prepare a 20-minute piece of crapola. My student Vera, who was obviously flown in from some Siberian prison camp, seemed to think so anyway (the stony silence and constant eye-rolling gave her away). Worse still, I'm not sure that I actually like teaching. Its not that I don't have the patience, but I really don't like doing things that I'm crap at. Egads.Any words of wisdom, former/ current teachers of the world?...
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It's your first lesson!
Did Babe Ruth hit a home run on the first try? Did Annie Sullivan teach Helen Keller to "spell" on her first day? Did Jacques Pepin's first souffle rise? (actually, I don't know for sure on that one)
Give it some time...
10:10 AM
I ain't no teacher, but come on... we all know that the barnes charm will win them over anyway. Whether or not they learn is really irrelevant.
~amanda
12:00 PM
Word Tanio, calm down! You shall triumph. You haven't even gone through the whole training course to learn how to teach, right? You will get there. Hang in there!
~Boulos
12:52 PM
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