2017
We had a meeting this afternoon. It’s the beginning of the school year here in my country, and we teachers are soon going to step into the classroom again. For me, it’s going to be the first time - well, first with groups, not private students, or at least first with groups of my own, not substitutions - since I came back from Wales and my two-month summer Welsh course . I’m teaching quite a lot of children, preteens and teens this term, apparently - I wonder if I could use Welsh words and phrases to bargain with them?... Teach them vocab related to whatever we’re learning - provided they behave? I’d learn a lot myself. And I’d be spreading the love-for-Wales around - OK, I’d be teaching them there is a country named Wales which stays in the UK (which is in Europe, Europe is a continent, not a country, nothing to do with the US, and England isn’t the UK, it is in the UK, well) and has its own very special, very old, very beautiful language very few people can actually speak, and I ...