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Gave my first English class in Chiang Mai University yesterday. Thats right, a proper job and all. But its only 6 hours a week which is just fine with me, got to ease slowly into these new adventures I say :-)

I have 13 in my class, mostly young adults. They are rather shy to speak (very Asian) and their English isnt quite upto the "intermediate" level I was told to teach. But once I got over my initial nerves of having to stand before a class things seemed to roll along nicely. (good preparation really helps :)

Already facing typical teaching challenges like what to do with the students that complete the activity way before the others and how to help/support one student that is struggling behind in class. And the headaches of teaching English grammar; I discovered today that for the pronouns (I, me, them, his, her etc) there are actually 5 different categories (Personal subject form, Personal object form, Possessive adjective, Possessive and Reflexive) and ofcourse each category has its own quirky rules. I seriously start to sweat when a student asks me a grammar question...!

For me this marks a completely new phase in my life, what with my last paid job being some 7+ years ago.... [sigh] Nothing lasts forever, but it was a good a run wasnt it 8-)

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