Thursday, September 9, 2010

School

School is pretty good.  Everything is pretty much planned for me and I just go class to class and teach it.  A lot of it is just getting the students to talk and have a conversation with me and each other. Some classes are directed more towards writing.  My day begins at 9 and the first students, kinders, get here 9:30.  Kinders stay here until 2:30 and then the elementary kids come in.  They finish at 5:30 and I get to leave at 6.  The afternoons are a bit more relaxing because the older kids are not as crazy and they understand more.  I have the lowest class in the morning of 5 year olds and it is difficult to get them to listen and follow directions.  Just like kindergarten in America.  I usually teach about 6-7 40 minute classes a day and that leaves me a lot of time to "plan" which I don't really need to do much of and can be finished in about 20 minutes.  There are 3 other American teachers here but one is leaving soon, the only other girl and the gits seem to already be good buddies.  They also live in the complete opposite direction of my place so I don't see them much.  I am getting into the swing of things and I will post pictures soon. I haven't done too much traveling yet but we have a break coming up and I am going to learn the train system. 
Well that is a quick update and I have to go welcome the kids to school.  We are on the 8th floor and help them get to the right place.
Talk to you later! 

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