Große Ereignisse werfen ihr Schatten ... hinter sich.
Hi folks,
yes, I'm alive (I wonder how many entries of mine begin with that phrase, must be a lot).
As some of you might know there was a lot going on in my life in the past few weeks. I started my Referendariat and most of it is exciting and cool.
Last wednesday our seminar met for the first time and let me tell: it couldn't have been a better combination of people. We're nine Referendare (I already knew three of them from university) and we get along sooo good. All of them are open minded and real fun. No drama at all. And I somehow wait for the bomb to be dropped, because seriously: Can so much harmony be really true?
The school I'll be working at is not overwhelming. It seems like they're pretty old school. You know the type were the teacher is god in comparison to students and the classes center around the teacher and not around the student. They don't do pedagogic experiments or try new didactic methods. They just don't.
Aside form that they seem pretty unorganized and not so fond of Referendare at all, and it seems like I have to beg my way through hospitations and observed teaching. I ask the organizer about classes on my own (we are supposed to have at least 2), but he answered that this would be an organisational problem, because he already did the class schedules and it is not possible to change them.
Thank you very much, you only knew for about three weeks that I was coming to your school. HMPF!
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Beside my professional life there was a personal one, too. And maybe I'll tell you about that later, but now I'm off buying birthday gifts ... again. And I'm really not sure if people maybe reschedule their birthdays into january/february this year, just to keep me busy. It feels like the 57.th birthday gift I have to pick this year.