What's Your Favorite?

Recently I’ve been feeling that my French lessons have been lacking that little “pizzaz” that made them an authentic Samuel Bar lesson.

The reasons are numerous.

1.       Second Semester Slump
2.          Rigorous’ french curriculum given to us by the provincial ministry of education
3.         The now 2 weeks closer exams based off the curriculum given to us by the provincial ministry of education
4.         Secondary Projects Exhaustion
5.       Ran out of Nutela and coming down to the last box of mac-and-cheese

But the effect is the same; I have been more tired during lessons, which entertains the students less, which entertains me less, which makes me more tired for the next lesson, and so on. It’s been a depressing few days of classes, and distressingly the dread of having to go to teach has regularly preceded the past few days.

Then I asked for my students favorites as part of an activity about giving your opinion, and not only did the “pizzaz” come back, but I learned some interesting things about Mozambiquean 11^th grade day and night class students:

2 in 6 turmas (classrooms) had Chris Brown as their favorite singer

2 in 6 turmas had Porto as their favorite sports team

2 in 6 turmas had Chelsea as their favorite sports team

3 in 6 turmas had Filiosofia as their favorite subject in school, if not for French of course

3 in 6 turmas had Killer Bean as their favorite movie, which I’ve never heard of

5 in 6 turmas had arroz con feijao (rice with beans) as their favorite meal, which I’d agree, is pretty good

The next day I asked for their least favorites

1 in 6  turmas had Pornographic films as the worst type of movies

1 in 6  turmas had Rato (Rat) as the worst type of food

1 in 6  turmas had Cabanga (fermented maize flour liquor) as the worst drink

2 in 6  turmas had Cacana (bitter herb) as the worst type of food

3 in 6  turmas had Tentacao (cheap and shitty gin, equally usable for killing brain cells and degreasing engines) as the worst drink

3 in 6  turmas had Terror films as the worst type of movies

3 in 6  turmas had Dalmacio as the worst singer

5 in 6  turmas had Mambas as the worst sports team

Now I don’t know what that this means beyond me being a very poor pollster. But if you figure it out let me know.