And I’m Back…
Sorry guys, I’ve been really busy moving in and been really tired from actually having a job. Also Anderson and I were watching Dexter, so any free time that I’ve had has been spent falling asleep to that. By the way if you’ve never watched Dexter, start, now.
Anyway so I’ve started at my new school, and it’s pretty awesome. The kids can get pretty rowdy at times but that’s more on me than it is on them, but they are freakin’ awesome. The one problem that I am dealing with is the fact that I have like 120 kids so trying to learn all their names will be quite a task, but I’m up for the challenge.
The one problem is that even within classes some of the kids are on much different levels, so some of the kids are way ahead of the words I’m trying to teach, and others are way behind. This I suppose is a dilemma of a lot of teachers (and is also a problem with schools in general), but there isn’t too much I can do about it. I try to work with the kids who are behind and try not to favor the kids who are ahead (they are usually easier to work with and I have an urge to favor them).
The school that I’m at is much better than I expected. From the stories that I’ve heard about the school they never usually help the foreign teachers, but on the first day my 90 minute class went really well and they brought in a translator so that I could communicate with the other teachers, and they said that they really like me, which means job security.
This is important because teachers tend to be moved around a lot. This means that they could move me out at any time, which seems to happen a lot. I don’t think that I will have much of a problem because as far as I can tell I am doing a pretty good job, and I assume that most of the people who come to China to teach are not here to actually teach. In fact I’ve often come across this with the teachers that our recruiter brought in.
I’ve also talked to other sources who have said the same thing applies for other countries like Korea. Why would you come to China if you don’t like Chinese food, for instance or if you don’t like kids. It really makes no sense. Anyway I’m going to leave you all with the clip below in case this post was terrible. Enjoy!
Here’s a video to entertain you with in case this post was bad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjGfgV7rJHI
