Goodmorning Teacher Sarah!

7:30- Catch the bus to Bond Kindergarten
8:00-Breakfast at Bond
9:00-Opening with all our students.
9:15-11:30- First day of Teaching....AHHHH!
12:00-Lunch at Bond
12:30-Meetings with school Staff
1:30-Gmail chat date with Tarah. She stood me up. It broke my heart. I mean that.
2:30-walked to the Post Office, and the fruit stand (where we catch the bus home)
4:30- Caught the Kaiyin Bus home.
5:00-I got an email from Tarah that had me squealing... I'm still jumpy thinking about it :)
5:30- Dinner at Kaiyin
6:30- Grocery shopping at the One Plus One Market.

That is how my first day of teaching went. I was indeed very very nervous today and it went just about as miserable as I thought it would go. It was so crazy, and crazy and crazy, and I'm so scared for the rest of the semester. The kids are positively precious, especially my homeroom class. My homeroom is the oldest group. They are the 4 and 5 year olds. There is Alice, Angel, Bella, Belinda, Aiden, Josh, and Nicholas. Alice, Angel, Bella and Belinda are best friends. It's adorable. They all do what each other do and are by each others side no matter what. Aiden is hilarious. He doesn't want anything to do with Josh or Nicholas, he wants to be wherever the girls are. Smart kid :) Josh is so sweet. He has these cute little glasses that always sit on the tip of his little nose and the biggest smile.

First day of school today.
Nicholas is upbeat and happy. I love it. The part that scares me, is just teaching. It was very chaotic today. It was the first day, and a number of the kids were late or just didn't show, and it's a week before their winter break so I think they are just ready to bolt. I don't really know how to explain it, but it's just one of those feelings when you're super nervous for something. Every time I think about teaching, or the school even I just get this sick, nauseous feeling in the very pitt of my stomach. Oh boy. I think I worry too much. (the picture below is a picture of my school by the way)


I want the kids to get the most out of this and aspects of the lessons are just more difficult than others.

But.... just like anything, I'm sure I will get better with time and hopefully, I will just fall even more in love and get more attached to the kids and it'll be something I look forward to doing. I just have to take it one day at a time.
I'm teaching gym for the first few weeks, and today we played Duck...duck...GOOSE! :) We have 4 classes all together that rotate while we teach our lesson 4 times. One of the classes are just babies. They're two, and I feel like that is just so young to be expecting them to be responding to us when they barely speak chinese. Anyways, we basically just try to use as many words and phrases as we can in our teaching and try to have them repeat you. So in doing this, we repeat ourselves a lot! It'll be good for me. I just want to feel more confident about it.... and the sooner the better :)