Back to work

School started back last Monday- they'd been off since September 18th or something ridiculous like that, so it was nice to get back and be busy again. So far I've been a lot busier than last time, because I've had a lot more classes to teach and generally more preparation etc. On the plus side, with a few of the classes I'll have the first half for the first half of the term and the second half for the second half of the term, so I can just recycle all the material from the first half.. I'm sure that makes a lot of sense.

Anyway so all week I was just busy preparing lessons and reading various books that I'm going to be looking at with the classes. With one group I'm doing post-colonial short stories, and the first one I've picked is by George Orwell. It's quite interesting. It's going to get quite confusing because I think I'm alternating each week between the classes, so I actually will have a lot of photocopying to do tomorrow.. will have to get up pretty early, aah. I think I prefer the half the class for a few weeks, then the other half format. Easier to keep track of that way, and less boring (it means I'll've looked at the same story 4 times in a week) but oh well.

Weekend was good fun though, I went to Konstanz again. Some of the shops have started putting up their Christmas stuff, plus it's a lot cheaper than Switzerland over there!

Anyway... class time now so better run.