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Hi again!

Hello everyone! It´s nice to be back again! 

It feels like it was yesterday when we were in Didactics I, and in the blink of an eye, we are now in Didactics II. 😮😮😎

We had our first English Didactic class last  Thursday, we talked about how the three registers will be distributed and teacher Orlando gave us a little insight on how we will be evaluated, although we won´t have written midterms perse, we will start planning and teaching! 

I am pretty excited that we will have a closer look into real-life scenarios. I am sure we will struggle sometimes but I am also sure that we will spend a good time in the class with our future students, so I can´t wait to see what it all will be like! 

We also did a surprise diagnosis test and I was quite disappointed by my lack of memory 😅 but in my defense, I have to say that maybe I did not remember the names but some important features of each theory and method, so that was a plus. Still, I did pretty bad and I´m looking forward to learning from our experiences this coming semester.


Thanks for reading this short entry stay tuned for the next entries. Have a nice one! See you around!

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