As a wannabe teacher, I have to complete two teaching internships. This year, I'm taking grade 3 and 4 English (Harry Potter is our novel study- score!), and I take the sixth graders for a ten minute current events quiz every morning. It's fun stuff, but sometimes, it's a bit frustrating.
Since mid-March, the highest score to date is a 4/5, and that's because I asked mostly sports-related questions that day. You cannot imagine the disappointment and sense of failure as a role model and future educator that engulfs me every time I mark an answer as incorrect. I feel like I failed to reach out to their young, carefree minds. One day they will grow up and realize that it is important to know what's going on in the world, and maybe then they'll be the ones giving the current events quizzes. AND MAYBE THEN THEY'LL LEARN THAT NEWS ISN'T JUST FOR DADS!
Talking Kureiji, though, I read in the news last night that Lebanon and Israel are competing to make the largest dish of hummus. I am not surprised that Lebanon, as on a recent recent trip to Beirut taught me, was the victor of this ludicrous competition. I'm suddenly really hungry for Lebanese food.
Isn't that Kureiji?
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