OOooh what a stressful day I'm having!

Tomorrow is a big day for me, as I have the first of my England presentations to do and then in the evening I have 'Life Club' again, and I've been asked to prepare a presentation to present the english word for cakes and cake decorations.

Simple enough. OR SO I THOUGHT.

First off, I have to make this English presentation last 4 hours. 2 tomorrow, 2 on Friday. GOODNESS knows how that's going to happen. It's going to be tough. So I wanted to spend all of today on it, to really get stuck in. However, I turn up, and get pounced on by Heidi, the Chinese girl I'm doing the Life Club with, and was told that I need to prepare that today so that it can be seen and deemed 'worthy' enough for tomorrow. So i've spent all of today working on this damn thing, first making flash-cards, then being told to make it into a Powerpoint, then being told that the ingredients were wrong ("Get rid of butter, we don't know butter", "icing? What's icing? You mean cream right?!" "Jam?! Not jam! We put fruit on cakes") My god, it's been a nightmare. I've been made to look an idiot because I've been doing cakes that I know, whereas the Chinese just bung piles of fruit on the top of cakes. When I pointed out that they should've maybe mentioned that, I got a lecture from Heidi about "respecting that the cakes are delicious even if they're different" and I tried to explain that my only point was that it was a bit weird for me to teach about cakes that I didn't know, and completely ignore everything I thought I knew. She jumped on that and said "I don't know why you want to become a teacher..." urgh she made me SO mad. I've spent the whole day doing this, she's done NOTHING. And she goes and patronises me and tries to belittle me in front of everyone. HONESTLY.

*breathes*

Well I didn't rise to it to her face, I just kept it all in, took it all on board. I think I've finished the damn thing now, so I've got a couple of hours to work on my presentation. Tad annoying because I'll have to come in earlier than I wanted to tomorrow to polish it off and practice it... but whatever.

Teaching isn't easy. I have a lot more respect for my school teachers! Although, they didn't have the language barrier to worry about!

In a weird way, I'm looking forward to the weekend... that'll just bring the normal craziness of lots of classes! Give me that over summer school anyday...!

Onwards I go...!