| New Year's, Macau, Finals |
[Jan. 22nd, 2007|10:59 pm] |
For New Year's Day, Karen, Yeeling, Angela, and I went to Macau for a short break. The most famous sight in Macau (which you may not have realized was in Macau) is St. Paul's.
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When we got back to Guangzhou, it was time for finals. I ended up giving the reading final for all 5 of my reading classes at once, and if I ever do that again, I'm going to have about twenty more teachers watching, I can tell you that. These kids cheat like you wouldn't believe, and it's really hard to catch them. Many teachers just give up, but my principles won't let me do that (although I kind of wish they would). So, yeah...not fun.
Also not fun: when four girls waylay you after the test to beg you not to give them zeros, even though they cheated and you took away their papers. I finally agreed to give them scores of 50 each (60 is passing), so that if they did well on the midterm and attended class regularly, they can still pass the class. When I started grading the papers, the strange thing was that all of their papers were missing! I think that they took them while I was cleaning up the room, so that I had no proof that they were cheating. Unfortunately for them, I also have no proof that they took the test at all now, and they fail.
I finished the finals week vowing to be more organized next term, so that grade-entering won't be so arduous at finals. We'll see if I keep that resolution.
Tomorrow I leave on my vacation--the first part of the break will be spent with friends in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province and spicy food. Wish me luck! |
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