The Elephant Song and Henny Penny

Just another day of Fulbright training. We did lots of mock lesson planning, and learned to teach around a theme/storybook. This process involved, for us, about an hour and a half talking about the children's story Henny Penny, involving us splitting into two groups and doing Reader's Theater, and being subjected to this man...

...for a good fifteen minutes, as he laboriously introduced all the characters, read the story, and broke randomly into song throughout. (And yes, that IS a man.)

We had some great practice with planning lessons around storybooks, and then around various holidays--my group had some pretty great ideas about April Fool's Day--and learned some games from a former LET, including an apparently-popular mafia-like game featuring, well, you can see...

Yes, that says "Bin Laden: I kill people everyday."

We also got to watch the quite-wonderful Elephant Song!

On another note, scooter practice was a bit easier today; I think it helped being on the back of Joy's yesterday. It's easier to feel how you should be sitting to maneuver when you've been behind someone who actually knows how.

And now it's pouring rain, together with an enormous thunder-and-lightning storm while my roomies and I sit around watching TV/YouTube videos and messing around on our computers. So, you know, just another day in typhoon season.