karibu!

so yesterday was the entrance ceremony which means all the kids dress in their myeong mun kids club outfits, complete with coats and slippers. quite awesome. also the parents come. well all the teachers did a play together about a rabbit who needed help and he finds out who his true friends are. i was the narrator and my partner teacher yanny read all of the other parts. the other teachers know some english but i dont know how much and also they have very little confidence in it and won't use it toward me. so pretty much yanny is my only help. :) i didn't quite expect that but its alright. i do alot of sitting around and laughing when everyone else does. i dont know if that is acceptable or not, but i do it. i try to keep up with what is going on.

i had my first classes also. its kind of like college where tue and thur i have the warmup classes and then on mon and wed i have the kindergarten classes and then fridays rotate. i gave out the books and tried to access where they are in terms of their english. i also tried to see what commands they know like listen, stop, look. the first class was um, well its gonna be hard. there are 3 to 4 kids who like to not listen. so i need to start thinking of how to deal with that before tomorrow. i just wonder what is culturally acceptable...and its a big class. my second class was wonderful! only 3 kids and they are soooo cute and they listen! my last class was good too, a bit bigger but good. so we did the hokey pokey, amber says... and stuff like that. i will be doing alot of the same today. this morning is the first morning class so i have no idea what we are in store for with that! :)

also, the picture is from the ceremony where i was asked to come up front and receive flowers and then give an impromptu speech. hahaha, it went well. but after the first ceremony i had a father come up to me and tell me he was kai's father and he is hoping that i can help kai to speak english a lot better. it was really touching and really helped to solidify that this is a real job and people pay big money to have me here and to have their kids study with me. not that i would take this job lightly, but if there were any thoughts of doing that, well they are gone now.

so all is well. more brainstorming! until next time.