My title was originally gonna be something like " I hate children" or "When they turn 11 I am sending my kids to boarding school, so I don't have to deal with their BLOODY OBNOXIOUS WAYS!!!!!" or "Where is the iron so I can throw it at her/his FACE???!!"But.....the day turned out to be pretty good...
Let me explain; The morning started off quite well! I had my first hot vending machine coffee (actually quite nice!!!), and then I arrived at school on a caffeine/sugar high. I went straight to the English room, put on my Christmas compilation CD (Thanks guys for sending me songs!), and danced around the room to Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is youuuuuuuuuuuuuu". My first class were grade 6's...and I had the awful task of introducing the new song for this month "we wish you a merry x-mas"..I officially hate that song now....the kids kinda joined in...but all looked like they wanted to be somewhere else....The lesson went ok...they participated alright, and generally joined in. There is this one girl in the class who is always really shy..but she's not shy in the usual sense of just quiet. She looks only to the floor..or hides behind her friend when I come near her..and whines like a baby when I wanna ask her something. She's taller than me...and I don't think I look that scary....anyways I felt a little exhausted after that.
It then got a whole lot worse when I had grade 4's. OMG I wanted to just walk out. They failed to participate completely. Just stood there like lemons. Then when I was drilling the words, they would mainly not say anything....but the worst was when I wanted to play the games to practice the phrases, and they all just played stupid and took the piss. You cannot tell me that they are THAT slow at picking up game rules...if my grade 2s manage it at all my other schools. I also had the feeling they were just taking the piss out of me the whole lesson. I was so close to exploding...and utterly relieved when the lesson was over. Gawwwwd I am gonna have to teach those things for the next 4 months!!!! I don't want to! Don't make me pleaaaase!
I then had to have lunch with the year 6s...really didn't want to...it felt like they were mocking me. Luckily their teacher was chatting to me, so that was kinda cool.
Then during the lunch break one of the teachers encouraged me to go out and play with the kids. I was like..."they probably don't want me to be there" As it turned out, it was good though. We played a game called "fried egg" where a fried egg is drawn on the floor, and one team is in the yolk the other in the outside bit. Outsiders have to run around and not be pushed out or pulled in..similar for the yolks. It was fun! the kids had transformed in to actual nice beings!
I spent the rest fo the day making christmas cards for the teachers at the other school. When I came down, all the teachers had left to go to a meeting and I was left with the secretarial staff and the assistent teacher. We ended up having one of those half english half japanese conversations, and then she taught me how to make origami santa clauses. I spent the rest of my free time at school practicing that. So all in all it was a good day. The adults are great at that school...it's just the kids...or the older ones anyway that darken that school.....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
oh well..fave school tomorrow! yay!
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