The actual groups that I teach vary enormously. I have a small group of adult beginners, a larger advanced group in their late teens and twenties, a group of 11 year olds, and several groups of teenagers of varying ages. So it's pretty mixed. The lessons are quite long - all my classes at Skhodneskaya are 3 academic hours. So they take quite a lot of planning. And keeping younger kids occupied for several hours on end is pretty difficult.

My earliest classes are at 3pm, which suits my body clock pretty well. On Mondays and Thursdays, I don't even start till 7pm. It's very strange - holded up throughout the city is an unncountable number of nocturnal, red-eyed, pale-skinned English teachers. We only come out at night...