Another day in another town

November 3, 2010

Today I had my second placement in a school. I was in year 1 so 5-6 year olds. I figured this was going to be super easy, I love kindergarteners! However, I love American kindergarteners, not English ones. It also didn't help that the school I was in was so disorganized. First of all they couldn't even remember who was out then when they figured it out they weren't sure who the teacher was I was even subbing for. They acted like they didn't know her! Then nobody introduced themselves to me so half the time I didn't know who I was talking to. Then the kids came in and all they did all day was yell. Not talk, yell! They didn't know how to carry on a conversation without yelling. I asked them repeatedly to talk quietly. I offered them stickers if they did a good job, I tried bribing them with a book (which I ended up reading anyways and they barely paid attention to that), I tried threatening them with punishments from their teacher if they didn't do their job. Nothing worked. At one point I literally sat down and said I give up. Of course the kids didn't notice or care. So I got up, turned off the lights (un-knowlingly also turning off the lights to the classroom next to me...ooops), told the kids to put their heads down and close their mouths and for once in the day I had ten minutes of silence. They say silence in golden....my was a fricken gold bar! We're allowed to pick one school we don't want to go back to and despite this terrible day I'm afraid to pick this school, because I have a feeling it could get worse and probably will. Therefore, I will hang in there. Well that is all for today, not much else happened and it's been a long and exhausting day. I have had a headache from all the screaming. Hopefully tomorrow will be a new adventure and a better day!

Until next time,

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