I love individual session

I think my individual session of my 305 is such a wonderful time for me to learn. Yes, I enjoy it a lot. Quite different from 101, my 305 class has so many smart and interesting students whose prior experiences are so rich and of course most importantly they have enough language proficiency to speak. Yes, they are lucky girls and guys who have great family backgrounds and opportunities to have all of the wonderful experiences, but why should we blame them for that. Instead, I should make use of them (or, maybe take advantage of them.) Plus, I think they are also like to talk about it. I think they would be amazed to be aware that they say them in Chinese.

Yes, I used different approaches in my 305 class from my previous 101. I was trying to explore more deep and sophisticated topics, e.g., their academic interest, their religious belief, their family history, and their views about love. They are all part of their lives, but more complicated part of life. I want my students to feel cool in speaking about them. Yes, they can speak very cool topics.

Let's see what we have talked about this week: Confucius, use of economy in explaining the world, lucan, the roman poet, the Oresteria by Aeschylus, the Peony Pavillion, NATO, and practical ethnics. Some of them are what they know, but I don't know about at all. If I don't know, does not matter, I can ask them to explain for me in Chinese, Yes, I know how to say them in Chinese at least. Yes, I know what they are talking about, although I may not know what they talked about quite a lot. But that is enough so far. I learned so much from our conversation. And mostly I am also motivated to learn more stuff than Chinese grammar and use of vocabulary. I am aware that each of my students is a resource person I should make use of to improve myself.