Usually I wake up at the first sound of my alarm in the morning: 6am. Sometimes, on Tuesdays, it takes me longer to wake up. I always say Tuesdays are the most difficult day of the week. Everyone prepares for Mondays to be bad days, but Tuesdays are more tiring to me. I also have the most classes to teach. I should mention that I’m a teacher. I teach History, but I’ve been teaching English in a Czech Secondary School this year. I am from the United States and here working with the Fulbright Program. I walk to school from my flat each morning. It takes about 20 minutes to walk anywhere in my city, I joke. It helps wake me up, but it also makes me look like I just ran a marathon. So, I need about 15 minutes to relax before my first lesson. The students aren’t really awake until the third lesson anyway, so I try to be extra excited about everything we’re learning, even if it isn’t interesting at all. Sometimes they enjoy the effort, sometimes I might as well be teaching t...
Jaké je to být Fulbrighterem. What it is like to be a Fulbrighter.