On Monday I started the CELTA course at International House Barcelona and after a few hours of instruction, each of the five people in my teaching group taught for twenty minutes. We each did a getting-to-know-each-other excersice, so it wasn’t very difficult in content, but in it we had to practice clear and simple instructions so that people with minimal English could do the task. The next time I teach, it will be for 40 minutes on Thursday. We rotate observing other trainees teach, and then I teach on my own day.

So far everything is going well, it isn’t too much for me to handle, but it is a new and different kind of challenge. All of my classmates are very nice and it’s quite interesting that they’re from different places. It makes for good conversation!

Well, I’m going to have a small dinner now. I’ll try to update at least once a week, but this month will be very busy with class all day and lesson preparation at night.