Sunday is a difficult day!

Like most people of the world hate Mondays, we Israeli hate Sundays. In our country Sunday is the first day of the week, so it is a bit dificult to come to work or to school after the weekend, which is Friday and Saturday.

Today I came to work and found out that it was a power outage in our school. I had planned to conduct the lessons in the computer room, but it was impossible because all the computers were cut off. That is why I had to teach in the regular classrooms and to write everything on the board. Of course, I didn't have any workpages with me, so kids had to copy from the board to their notebooks. Some of them were not concentrated and misbehaved but they realized perfectly well that we didn't have a choice: no electricity - no computers. Thus we had a regular lesson that I hadn't been prepared at all for.

In order to keep hyperactive kids busy, I gave them a pair work. They asked each other the questions about Robert Frost's life and played a role game: one of them was Robert Frost and another was an interviewer. So the interviewer asked what Robert Frost meant when he wrote a poem "The Road Not Taken". Generally it sounded very interesting, so I realized that "every cloud has a silver lining", as the English say. On the one hand kids were disappointed that they didn't have an opportunity to work in the computer room. On the other hand, they had quite an interesting lesson. Despite some noise, I enjoyed these activities.

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Well, it's 3:30 p.m. and I have finished work. I hope it is still not too late to post this message since it is an early morning in Oregon. Have a nice week everybody.