Well, as soon as I finish this week's classes, the semester will be half over (well, my semester. There's another week of classes that I am not scheduled for, and then exams...) It seems like I and everyone else over the age of twenty-five say it so often it's a cliche, but my, time is flying. Every semester goes faster than the last.
This week in my writing classes we started expository essays. It really is nice teaching the same class for the second year; I did all the hard work last year and now I just have to adapt and edit the lessons. I also like that I get the opportunity to make my lessons better, with the knowledge of what last year's students did and didn't get and what they found interesting.
After a short introduction to expository writing, I brought up that there are several types of expository writing, and that we would take a closer look at some of them. First up: cause and effect.
Since I have a few hours between my two classes on Tuesdays, I usually stay in the classroom building and get some work done, away from some of the usual distractions at home. It's also much more efficient to plan out next week's lesson while this week's is fresh in my mind. I am the opposite of ADD; I prefer to spend all day on one thing rather than split it up.
Today, before I settled down to work in an empty classroom as I usually do, I went over to the Foreign Language Department building to visit the copy room to print some materials for later classes. On my way back, I walked the long way around, along the Rapeseed fields. The blooming season is already coming to an end; only a few straggling speckles of yellow are left of the solid sea of shocking...yellow...that made even the sun seem dull for the past few weeks. I feel like I ought to use another word other than just yellow, but none of the alternatives--lemon, banana, gold--really fits; rapeseed could be the definition of yellow. 
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