Powerpoint, I despise thee! - Friday June 20, 2008

My first class was about 20 minutes late per usual. This class is always late. I found out the other day that the teacher of 2-6 class had a minor heart attack a few days ago. I forgot to ask him about it, but I was surprised he was at school so soon.

In 2-7 class, we had an ice cream party because they earned the most stars last semester along with 2-1 class. 2-1's party is next week. I initially had planned to buy the ice cream myself but both teachers offered to buy for their classes. So nice of them!

I was still working on some things with my powerpoint even though I had already sent it to Margaret to organize with the other two parts.

After lunch, I helped with the sixth grade English speaking contest. It was difficult to judge...I hate giving low scores when I know the students worked hard. I was semi frustrated when I heard vocabulary come out of these children's mouths that US native English speaking students wouldn't even know until high school. Meaning...their parents wrote the speeches or the students' hagwan teachers wrote the speeches.

After that, I had a few minutes in the first grade office to work on some stuff before I had to go to guitar lessons. Yeon Ohk needed help checking questions she had made for a province-wide test, but I was getting ready to leave as she remembered to ask. I felt bad that I couldn't help.

Finishing up the song in guitar lessons...starting a new song next week.

I skipped yoga which is usual for me on Fridays these days. I wanted to work on the powerpoint. I was going to go late to the meeting to further prep for the presentation. The topic in the meeting today was noraebang which I couldn't for the life of me see talking about for an hour. Last week's weather topic just about did me in...I couldn't handle an hour long discussion about karaoke. I didn't make it to second round though either, Margaret and I started discussing the powerpoint.

I may have already professed my deep loathing for the new version of powerpoint, but here it is again. Powerpoint has made a new version...incredibly helpful and practical...except for one teeny tiny detail...IT'S NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE OLD VERSION! Who does that?! Who creates a new version of a program to not be compatible with the old version? So all powerpoints I have from previous classes no longer work properly, and if I create a powerpoint using the new version and try to send it to someone who doesn't have the new version, it will not open. >_<

I finally got to sleep around 2:00AM, I think...after a final run through with the powerpoint.

Early morning.

Peace out.