First day of school!

Well, today was my first day of school, and at the end of it, all I can say is: is it bedtime yet? Actually, yes, yes it is, because it's after 11 pm here and I have school in the morning, but before I succumb to the lure of slumber, here's a few thoughts about the day.

For those who don't know (or forgot), I'm teaching k1 this year, which means 3 year olds! I have 16 students and 2 Thai teachers, though I really only work with one of them. Kru Som has been an amazing asset, and essentially set up the entire room for me. All I had to do was so the bulletin board and lesson planning. It was a huge relief, especially when all the other teachers were scrambling to make their rooms nice. Ha ha! Of course, my one responsibility, the board, looks pretty pathetic at the moment because it wasn't even in my room until late Monday afternoon. School started Tuesday. Hmm. Oh well! It's probably a good thing, as I wouldn't want to overstimulate them anyway. Right now, I have a few things set up, and I plan to add to it as we move along. I also plan to be busy this weekend. We'll see if it actually happens.

As it is the first few days of school, we end our days early. Today and tomorrow, school ends at 12. On Thursday and Friday, it will end at 2 (as opposed to 3:40). This doesn't make a huge difference to me, though, as the kindergarten schedule is set up so that I am essentially done teaching by the time they go to lunch at 11. I have center time with them later, but that is mostly activities based, not learning.

My kids are very cute, just as I expected. out of the 14 students who came today, I only had 1 crier. He's very melodramatic, and I can already identify him by his cry! We'll see how many criers I have over the next few weeks. In my experience, it sometimes takes awhile before the kids realize that they're being left and that they are not okay with that. Here's hoping they don't get too bad!

Well, there's not much more to say. After teaching, i took a nap and then went down to Khao Sahn for some falafel, mango sticky rice, and a mani/pedi. Oh, the hardships of teaching overseas. ;) Goodnight!