My Weekend Plans

I’m going to be out of town for a couple of days, but the blogs will continue.  I don’t know what kind of computer access I’ll have, so I’m just going to type up a couple of extras tonight and have my wife post them at the appropriate times.

I’m off to teach a weekend course at a Yoga Center and English School in a small village a bit out of Prague.  I’m actually really looking forward to it.  A completely different group of students.  A break in the routine.  A quiet weekend in the country.  Most of all, though, I like that way of teaching.

With most of my students, I have an hour or two a week.  Say,  even somebody that has a one hour lesson every day.  Then he (or she) is away from the lesson for the next 23 hours, merrily chatting with friends in Czech, watching TV in Czech and not thinking about English at all.  You can forget more in 23 hours than you learn in 1.

But if I’ve got them for a whole weekend, and I can get some momentum going as each lesson builds on the last one and they don’t have enough time to forget before it is reinforced….

I know.  A weekend is not enough time.  I have done this before.  But I’m still really looking forward to it.