Guide me, oh thou great cackling loon
We get the idea, but what about the details? We knew that the start of this term was going to be fairly horrendous, but barely two weeks in, the winter holiday seems to have been weeks or months ago. The first week was spent on practice for the InterBac speaking exams. Last week was the first writing exam, which seemed to be an opportunity for us to relax – fat chance. Instead, we spent hours having to pull the writing apart so that the final drafts could be copied, reassembling it, and then finding what’d happened to the bits that’d gone missing. On Monday this week, we had the practice for the Pre-AL speaking exam, which we were forced to conduct in the space of one day. Next week we have the real InterBac speaking exam, which is followed by a brief break before the real pre-AL speaking. There has been a certain amount of whining and complaining because of all the cover our work is generating. It’s the reason why next week’s speaking, which ought to happen across the week,