10/8/13
It was one of the first nights I didn’t sleep well in these
beds. I was super groggy. Though it could have been in part we were going to go
to the school for breakfast because of our early classes. I can’t remember the
last time we went to breakfast for that, though! Although I could remember why
we didn’t do it often. I was so groggy walking around until we got to the
school.
Turned out to be a great breakfast! I don’t know why we
didn’t go more often. They had some rolls, some tasty food, and these bread
rolls bean paste things which weren’t too bad and kind of sweet! They ended up
having these at all three meals which was awesome.
We headed to our office- no internet!
That ended up really stressing me out and I got really quiet
for most of the day. I had to teach 4 classes, and couldn’t reuse all the
material from yesterday. My first class was my bad class from the day before.
What could I do with them?
Not so great, but they were a little less crazy than Monday
so that wasn’t too terrible, I suppose. We actually ended up playing
Tic-Tac-Toe for the most part. A little bit in their books, of course. I had
them trying to write down a few words for it which took about half the time
which really helped, haha.
Lunch was after, and pretty good. Katie headed home after
that as I went to the office. Still no internet! It was connected, but just not
working for any of us, we couldn’t make sense of it. It was very frustrating. I
spent most of the time reading and trying hard not to stress out or anything.
Eventually it was time for class, though. Grade 4 first-
three girls came and took my arms and my stuff and we walked to class together.
They’re beginning to come and get me a few minutes early so I just watch the
kids goof off and mess around before I really have to make them behave.
I was able to use the same Halloween presentation as with
the younger kids the day before. Still a little tricky for them to understand,
I think. Then we ended up playing hangman with Halloween Characters and then I
had them draw out the words to make sure they knew what they really meant- I
had two kids draw a cat like figure for ghost, no idea what that meant…
And that took up most of the time, thank goodness! They were
pretty good, so we watched a piece of The Croods at the end. Though I’ve
realized that it takes them FOREVER to decide on a DVD piece- everyone has to
shout- so I’m working on a way to keep them quiet and just let one kid decide
or something, because then the video usually goes over time and I let it go
another minute but I don’t want to get in trouble with a teacher or anything.
I did exactly the same thing with Grade 5. They’ve probably
been taught this every year with American teachers, so they have some of it
down. I had half the class yelling ‘trick or treat’ at me. It was beginning to
get annoying and I was pretty glad I didn’t really have candy to give them or
they’d want more.
This time I brought in my Halloween story from before,
though I’d shortened it a bit and made it easier. We read over Hansel and
Gretel, their story, and it was fun to watch the kids get wide eyes over the
witch trying to eat the kids. Then we closed with tic tac toe- they like that
game- but I would ask them a question before they could put down an X or O to
make it a little more tricky at least.
Final Grade 3 class right after. The ‘stand up-sit down’
didn’t work nearly as well with Class 1. So I stopped that, and opened their
books. They’re always reading these three stories at the back, so I let them
read one today, and I got some kids to say the pieces in English, so that
helped at least a little- they’re getting good! After that we reviewed another
part of their unit.
They were good enough for a DVD. More shouting and trying to
crowd the computer which was frustrating, trying to keep them in control and
all. Eventually it worked but of course the bell went off during that for
dinner. Still, they stayed another two minutes to finish it out, and we didn’t
get in trouble or anything. Yay!
Katie returned for dinner, we ate the decently yummy food
there. We went back to our office after that and checked for activity time- but
there were a ton of teachers there and the few kids that were there were
playing around on the playground, where we usually don’t bother them. We waited
a few more minutes, but nothing changed. Then some of my girls came through and
talked for a bit before Katie and I finally decided to head home.
We’d brought money for snacks for the week, so we tried out
the new little convenience shop and grabbed a few fun snacks for the week. We
got some hot drinks in a different brand- no pictures of the actual flavor. I
thought mine was mint but it wasn’t. Super weird, but kind of good? Haha… We
finished up my Community episodes and munched on these American-like Chinese
noodles that were seasoned. Funky but a good snack whilst watching something,
so we enjoyed that during our lovely evening.
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