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After two days my students cease to be a bewildering sea of Vietnamese faces and start to remind me of students from my teaching years twenty years ago; delightful, daft and daft-difficult. I am getting old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Children here seem keen on proverbs. At the end of the two and a half hour's session I lobbed some international proverbs their way as a wind down. They took them unexpectedly seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n

'Where there is love there is happiness'  <\/span>A boy at the back of the class shook his head and beckoned me over. ' No, no.<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to respond seriously. 'Well, love can sometimes bring pain. He nodded. I continued. 'the person you love could leave, or they could die.'<\/span><\/p>\n

Table 3 threw up dissent.<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to wind up. It was a mistake to start bringing up proverbs. No-one seems to want to go. It had been a long hot 21\/2 hours. Thank you very much class B12. A good discussion always involves different points of view. They laugh as if I have said something foolish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two days my students cease to be a bewildering sea of Vietnamese faces and start to remind me of students from my teaching years twenty years ago; delightful, daft and daft-difficult. I am getting old. Children here seem keen on proverbs. At the end of the two and a half hour's session I lobbed… Read More »Proverbs 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}