Giorno Due - out on my own!
First day a Milano!
Packed and ready to go!
First chat with my mentor teacher
- Me: Hi, nice to finally talk to you. Do you have any ideas about what I'll be doing this year?
- Diego: Well, we'd love you to come and be a proper member of staff - I'll send you all the information through on our teaching methods. And I'm a qualified trainer in the Jolly Phonics method of teaching, so I can give you official training in that if you like. I also have a mate with a private school that runs Jolly Phonics courses for kids, so feel free to get extra work there. And we get loads of requests at the school for private English tuition, so I can set you up with that.
- Me: Great! Any advice on accommodation?
- Diego: The assistant we had last year lived with a family in the centre of Milan - he did English for 3 hours a week with their kids and got to live there for free. And they fed him. Don't worry about lunch, the school will give you that for free. I can sort you out with that sort of arrangement if you like?
- Me: Um, yes please!
- Let's see if it lives up to expectations...
The British Council have sent me a mysterious book. Absolutely no use to me of course, since I’m teaching primary school kids, but it was nice of them all the same.
The point of all this…
- To let people know I’m still alive on my year abroad, and tell you what I’m doing.
- To do this without clogging up everyone’s Facebook feeds.
- To not have to write hideously long blog posts in my horrible writing style.
- To keep my mother happy.
Hopefully it might even be interesting too!
Love to anyone checking in, thanks for caring :)
