A comment I received on my assessment from one of our instructors about last night's lesson was, "A nice end to the week, you met your aims and students got a lot out of an engaging piece of authentic material. Give yourself a break at the weekend so you're refreshed for Monday [when you teach again]."
It's true I haven't given myself much of a break while on this course. Strange too, as it's such an undesirable feeling for me to have one main pursuit in my life and not many ideas on how to supplement it. That's how I felt when I was unhappiest at my past jobs - I needed a hobby, as they say. And here I am again, entirely consumed (by choice) by my teaching coursework and lesson planning, which I think everyone else here is as well. The trouble is, we're in a bit of a "Real World"-esque reality show house, where our main thing in common is this course... So hobbies generally don't come up.
In any case, my teacher's comment was a good wake-up call to "get a hobby" this weekend. I've planned a trip to Chiang Mai city to do a cooking course on Sunday, and I plan to socialize a bit tonight and perhaps convince the others to go do karaoke... Saturday I do have some work to do, but perhaps I can go for a bike ride if it doesn't absolutely monsoon the way it did yesterday.
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