Mr Right

Well this week just flew by. Back at work, back at uni and faffing around the house and next thing you know it's the weekend again.. Now I have to really get cracking on my final assignments for this semester because in only 4 weeks I am off to Vietnam! Groan. Re writing more essays that is, not about leaving the country! That's great fun :) This week we have to do a presentation about multimedia language learning courses so I've spent all morning looking up Spanish online language courses and discovered that you really do get what you pay for.
Unfortunately our groups for this particular course have been reassigned for the next 6 weeks and we have "acquired" a new member; the annoying mature age student. Oh man, are we in for a whole lot of trouble. He's been teaching English for years so seems to consider himself some sort of expert in the field and just spends his time fighting all the different methods that are introduced in the classroom. I wonder why he bothered paying for the course if he didn't want to learn anything new about language teaching? He just can't be wrong, and if he does start to be wrong, he simply changes the subject and picks on something else instead. Luckily the group work isn't worth much in regards to grades.

Obviously it is good to try and maintain a degree of objectivity in dealing with people's suggestions and ideas no matter whether you personally like them or not, but when the person has a seemingly deliberately grating personality it does make it very difficult. He wonders why he gets so much attitude from people when he can't say anything without somehow turning it into an example of how much better he is than everyone else. The only good thing I can say about him now is that when he pompously handed me his "business card" in class the other day it was chockablock full of that over-used font Papyrus. So another point to me (have I explained the Papyrus-spot Game? Basically MM and I get a point for every time we find Papyrus in use in the real world. Currently I am winning by about 18 points after finding 20 examples of Papyrus in Cairns).