Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Yulia Smirnova "Blog # 4

There are a big different between American teachers and Russian.And I have some stories from my high school about teachers but I don't want to talk about things.Because I don't want say bad things about Russia and russian people as I love my country with all minuses.
So last semster I took math class. There were approximatly 200 people in our lectures. Our professor was very funny. He is not american, I don't know where he is from. He has beard and bald spot.His has rediculous gait,like a goose. All the time he said jokes in class,that was so funny,but when he started to explain material for class I wanted to sleep. When we studied "cut problam", and we had problams with pizza.And my professor ordered pizza in class. And he explained this problam with real pizza. I have never met teachers who ordered food to class. And after class if somebody wanted a piece of pizza he or she could take it. Of course there were not pizza for whole classmates. Another day my professor took sweets(candy which you suck) and he wnated to show us that we can't devide 3 candies for 2 people. He said that we can give 1 candy for 1 person.But what we can do with 1 more candy? He tried to get to the core,but that was impossible do with candy.Than he took hammer and striked on the candy.And the candy was broken itno exstrimly little slices. That was so funny. So I think his method was very good,but the subject is very boring,that's why some students were sleeping in class. I think if all teachers would try to make their classes interesting(I don't mean to take food in class),than students will be more interesting in this class.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Yulia! We took this course together last semester. We used to sit together. I remember every events that you wrote here. When the dilivery guy came in to your lecture hall and brought the pizza, i thought that it was such a funny idea. He really thought of ordering pizza and teach us cutting pizza method lol but we always fell asleep though. He has such a strong accent and he sometimes made a comment on his accent! We had a great class together I think.

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