So I'm Officially an Educator

My first official day of class was today. I walked into work a bit nervous and a bit frightened but that was quelled 5 minutes before my first class when my co-teacher came to tell me that class was starting a period earlier than it normally would be cause the school was making up time for the students to prepare for the school festival.

as a result, i walked into class completely mentally prepared to spend the next 50-110minutes with these students only to realize that i forgot to photocopy the activity sheets for all of the students. Granted i am not entirely at fault seeing as this particular teacher told me that he would do all the photocopying for the class as long as i gave him the activities and sheets 1 period in advance. I mean it's not like he had the lesson plan on his desk for an entire week or anything...oh wait, he did. Such is life. Everyone was busy and nervous. Everyone except the students. They walk around campus like they own the joint. In fact, they do own the place. They can and will do whatever they want in class, including but not limited to; eating, drinking, sitting on their desks, talking while teachers or other students are talking, showing up late, not showing up at all, and not dressing in dress code (which i think needs to be enforced, because --and i never thought i would say this in my life--but some skirts are too short). Wow, listen to me. I sound like an old priest from Catholic school.

All that being said, the class was an overall success. I think most of the students were genuinely interested, despite the blank stares and whispered wakaranai's (i dont understand). The second class period was a bit more painful. It was directly after lunch and everyone in the room shamefully wore the food-coma droopy eyes. It did not help that the activity that my Japanese Teacher of English decided to do was quite boring and left them talking in pairs for nearly 25 minutes. Eventually, the class was concluded and I departed to my desk in the teachers office to work on the next lesson plan for the next week. Luckily, I am able to reuse lesson plans for different classes at both of my schools.

So far I enjoy being a teacher. We shall see what tomorrow brings. I cannot say for sure that I would want to do this job for the rest of my life, but who knows.

~Gio