First Day

Today was my first day of the English summer camp. I drove my scooter there (wup-wup)! I followed another teacher that works in the office. It is quite a long way; around 20 minutes. But it isn’t too hard. Good thing since I’ll be doing the drive Tues through Fri. I came back home on my own. I had one turn-around moment of confusion, but I did it just fine. Yeah me!

The students were fun. They were pretty quiet at first. I have 2 assistants that speak Chinese and that was helpful. I feel like they did more work than me! I’ll have to do better tomorrow. The classroom was hot as there was no AC; just fans and open windows.

We did some activities to get to know each other. Then we played kickball. That was pretty fun. It was boys against girls and the boys really got into it, while the girls were coerced into taking their turns “at bat.” They seemed to enjoy the fact that I played. I was totally game! It was pretty fun. I even scored a point.

Then we went into the computer lab. I wanted them to practice typing in English, not Chinese. One of my assistant s started a story and the students had to finish it. They didn’t write tons, but some were creative. We will have to share those tomorrow. Then we went back to the classroom and I gave them a word scramble. It was 15 body part words. It took them awhile to get them all. We didn’t have enough time to learn “head, shoulders, knees, and toes.” That will be tomorrow!

I wasn’t exactly sure how it was going to go since they asked me to move back one of my lessons to Tuesday. And I found that out Friday night. So the computer lab was totally on the fly. I think the students enjoyed it. A bunch of them said goodbye to me as I left. And they were asking questions on the word scramble.

Here’s something funny – watching these students made me think of a few students from my student teaching days. Ha ha! Guess students are similar. I wonder if I’ll always remember the students from student teaching. Doubtful.

I wore sunscreen on my arms on the drive to school – see Mom, I learned from yesterday. My watch line is still pretty ridiculous looking. I also wore sunglasses to keep some of the dirt out of my eyes. It seemed to help. When I got back to my apartment, I noticed I had little dirt specks all over my face. He he.