Vivianne’s talk

Last week, we had a special guest vivianne to introduce us her career as an English teacher on an online language learning website called “Funday.” I think for most of us, we’re not quite familiar with the job of online teacher, so I find this talk quite interesting. She explained some myth we have towards online teaching, for instance, whether the requirement is higher than a traditional classroom teacher, whether students are hard to teach, and how much is the payment. Vivianne answered all the questions quite honestly, and thus gave us an insight into her jobs. She told us that most of her students are adults, which is very different from teaching children. Although teaching adults is more challenging because her students are smart and diligent, she found lots of fun in it. She encounters students from different career backgrounds who would share a variety of life and stories with her while practicing English. What impress me the most in the talk is that her boss immediately designates her to take lead of writing class because she double majored in college; I never thought the training in our department could be so useful. I hope I could find a job which gives me the opportunity to apply the training we receive in university, just like her. At the end, she encourages us to try working in the field of online teacher where she finds enthusiasm and satisfaction in.

 

To me, although I’m not very interested in teaching, I think her talk gives me a different perspective on it. I always think teaching is hard because I’m not good at dealing with kids; however, it never occurred that to me that I could teach the adult students. Generally, I think her talk is quite good; she brought me another possibility on future choice of career.

 

A little bit of update about my Spanish

Seriously, I think my Spanish level has been dropping quite dramatically recently. Although I made a native speaker friend on my PE class, and she’s very willing to speak Spanish with me, I think I have little improvement on it, which made me quite sad. The reason, I think, is that I almost never study Spanish on my own because I nearly have time for it. I was too busy in my assignments and my internship as a journalist. I really want to spend time studying Spanish; however, I feel very exhausted and want to take some rest while I have a little free time. I feel very guilty especially because I have such a good friend of a native speaker, and I wasted such a great opportunity. She talks to me in Spanish sometimes; however, I most of the time can’t understand her and said to her that I need some translation. So, we basically only talk in English. Nevertheless, I’ve made up my mind that I want to change. Next semester, I want to take less class at school next semester and take a Spanish class at school of continuing education in Taiwan Normal university once a week. I think a teacher to keep me motivated and force me to put effort on Spanish is needed for me. Besides, the workload of my internship will also decrease a little next semester; hopefully I could spare more time with studying!