I’ve realized that actually I have 5 oral classes on NEW campus, and 3 on OLD. Then my writing class, for a total of 9 classes, or 18 “hours.” I still haven’t actually counted the number of students, maybe I don’t really want to know.
Today I plan to go to the Kodak store and print the photos of all the students. Then this week, we’ll cut out those pictures and paste them on notecards with names on them. In this way, I can begin to put names with faces in each class. I so admire the principals I have known who seem to know each child in school by name. Of course, those children may be in the same school for 5-8 years, so there aren’t 300 new names to learn all at once. Still, it is an American ideal to know the students by name. It is not a Chinese ideal.