XXXXXX Arrives in Germany

Hello

I thought I’d just send you a quick note to let you know of my current happenings, post TESOL course! I am working in Germany teaching business English to adults for a firm called EUROlingua. I am south of Berlin.

I have been very busy so far, not so much with teaching but settling in, finding an apartment, registering etc and dealing with all of the wonderful German “bureaucrazy” But now after my first month here I have finally settled in and things are starting to go very well. The work has been interesting and quite a change from the school teaching that I am more familiar with, however I am certainly able to use the pedagogical training in planning my lessons. The school here provides all resources which is good and bad, they don’t like it when we use our own resources. They also provide dual language vocab lists for the students which I do not always think is the best option (especially when the odd word has been incorrectly translated)

My usual teaching day sees me travelling to the workplaces of my students (sometimes an hour away on the train followed by a good half hour walk! Not surprisingly I have since dropped a dress size) and teaching classes for usually an hour and a half. We rarely teach in the school rooms which are based in the town.

The students vary in ability from total beginner to upper intermediate-advanced. The class sizes are from 1-6 students.

Anyway early start tomorrow teaching out so best get my beauty sleep

Well I hope that EE is going well

Regards

XXXXXXX.