In January I will be an adjunct instructor at BYU-I. I am going to be teaching a dialects class in the theatre department. While this is an exciting under-taking, it is also frightening and paralyzing. I have not been to school in 10 years. I haven't taught in 10 years! (And that was ESL... so most of the students hardly understood me.) And I have not done any theatre in 10 years. While dialects come quite naturally to me, the teaching of dialects is a little more tricky. I have to review the IPA or International Phonetic Alphabet. This is what will help the students know how to pronounce things. They have to be pretty familiar with this alphabet in order to be able to do this class. It has been 15 years since I have studied this alphabet!!! And it is complicated. Not only this, but I also have to know and teach certain mouth positions. This is going to really be difficult. All for a 2 credit class... which means hardly any compensation. What was I thinking? Why did I think this would be a good idea? But I always feel like I should be contributing to the household financially since I am the one who spends all of the money. But I am in this now. There is no backing out. I can do it. I am an intelligent woman. I just need to be prepared. But I would much rather be reading novels than text books.
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Scary.... but you'll be great!!!!
You're going to have a blast!!
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This is sooo awesome! I would love to do it! You'll do just fine :)
I'm 100% convinced that you will be brilliant at it! And, I think you will love it. Good luck with the preparation and the heading back to school. I can relate to the scary feeling of going back after being gone for so long.
wow! that is super cool! you will do fantasdtic!!!
love, the other Ginny:)
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