New school, new schedule, karaoke, painting.

It's been a week since my last update. Sorry, avid readers (if there even are any).

This week I started classes at a second school, and I've been settling into a new timetable. At the moment my schedule is this:
Monday - day off
Tuesday - One-to-one tutoring (the school Chairman's son, Ky-Danh)
Wednesday - 10A1 and 12A1 at Chu Văn An High School
Thursday - 4 10th Grade classes at Lý Tự Trọng High School
Friday - 10A2 at Chu Văn An High School
Saturday - 5 11th Grade classes at Lý Tự Trọng High School
Sunday - Young Learners class at Chu Văn An High School

It's not looking too bad, especially considering some interns are teaching 29 different classes a week! Schedules seem to vary from school to school, much the same with class sizes and quality of equipment.

Here are a few differences between my two schools (CVA & LTT):
- At CVA, the classes are air-conditioned, with great lighting, and are a nice, bright space. At LTT, the classes are more dingy, and only have fans.
- At LTT, you can use a microphone to teach, which is great because in some of my classes, I have up to 50 students. At CVA, classes are much smaller, so this isn't a problem.
- At CVA, the students took a while to come out of their shells and really open up in class. Of course, some students were always super confident, but now most of them speak up in lessons. At LTT, even in my first lessons with them, students were extremely confident and spoke up in class a lot, making me laugh and telling me they love me!
- I definitely felt like more of a celebrity at LTT, because the students went wild when they saw me, some of them actually screaming as I walked into the classroom. At CVA, it was a lot more subdued.

Overall, I love both the schools, and the students are really quite wonderful!

In order to keep my sanity, I must have a social life! And so, a few Vietnamese friends took me and Rasmus to karaoke last night. The only English song was We Wish You A Merry Christmas, which we had to sing not once, but twice. And we did attempt a few Vietnamese songs - kids ones, of course, so that it would be easy. We actually managed to get 100% on one of them, so I feel that was a definite achievement.

As you can see, there was a lot of bia 333 going around, as well as huge platters of fruit, and snacks.

The walk back to the school in the rain was pretty hilarious. I think one of my friends took pictures, so if I deem them appropriate they'll be up on the blog soon! Haha.

**EDIT** Some photos of us in the rain, and me singing karaoke, courtesy of my friend =)

Today, Rasmus didn't make it to the Young Learners' class. But I went along, because I love those stupidly adorable, badly behaved children. And I didn't want to leave my friend Binh - the main teacher - alone with them for another lesson (since our schedule changed, we can't attend the Saturday afternoon lessons anymore).
After that, I met some of my students for coffee, but sadly the cafe was closed. So we went to the supermarket, and painted some little statues... As you do!

The finished products:

Mine is the fish with chickenpox.