I'm just home from another Swedish class with my students from the first year. I'm always happy going to this class. What a privilege to teach a group of motivated and really nice students. I'm truly thankful for this school where I may work, teaching my mother tongue, a school with vision with colleagues who are PROUD to be teachers! My little unique contribution is teaching languages through singing. To quote Lady Gaga (I'm sure this is the first and last time I'll quote her in this blog!) I'm born this way: singing. Music is my weapon and I sense that it also works in class. My dear colleague can't understand how I can have time to sing so much in class. The answer is: it isn's something pasted to the program - it's an integrated part of it. I just BELIEVE in it, you know. I sing existing songs, I change existing songs for my purposes (a song with the title Do you like me? was changed into Did you like me? for the introduction of past tense today. The sad title inspired me to change the melody from major to minor too : ) and write my own about going to the shop, ask someone how they are, present oneself... I used to think that I was an intellectual person, but when I stand there in front of my class with the guitar and feel they really like it and that they are learning something, I know THIS is my calling. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS!!!!!!