I made it!

First day is in the books! Took a taxi over to the school with one of the LanguageCorps instructors who came along to show me the ropes on the first day. Now, I probably slept 2 hours last night, but I was plenty fine this morning, riding high on adrenaline and terror. Though I will admit that riding on the back of moto through South Pattaya, if someone would have stopped my taxi and offered me a plane ticket back to the states, I probably would have grabbed it. But lucky for us all that didn't happen, and I made it to the school without incident. I was told that I would get to observe the class first, but come 830 when all the kids filed in, the teacher walked out, left me with the aid and I was up.

My class is 13 2-3 year olds, what they call Pre-K here. (or what we call day care back home.) I could go through everything I did for the next two and half hours, but lets just say there was a lot of repetitive chanting at them, singing, prancing, pretending to be animals, eating, laughing, pantomiming, and pulling them off of me to go sit in their chair. They wouldn't respond to me in the beginning of the class and by the end I literally had to peel two of them off of me so I could leave. :) there were times that it was very frustrating, and I can already tell that I have a tendency to want to play with them more than actually teach them. And when I get them all riled up, its reallllly hard to calm them down. But I can't help it, they might be the cutest 13 kids in the world. Another class tomorrow, have a few ideas about more things to do, I'll let you know how it goes. But its kinda cool saying I'm a teacher! :)

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