We have had a whirlwind here for the last few days. Our job here at Yew Chung International School is to be the Boarding Supervisor / Teachers. The school has a developing program to deal with what it feels will be an increasing amount of kids who live at the school Sunday night through Thursday night (and go home to their parents on the weekends). In addition, we are required to teach up to 4 hours a week as needed. Presently Tammy is covering for some Art classes and I am teaching Citizenship for secondary. However, the school was not able to get a year 1-2 teacher (what Americans would call Kindergarten and 1st grade). In the interim, Tammy and I are now Primary (elementary) school teachers as well. We are in a flurry of activity cramming years of needed schooling and experience into a number of days.
Well, school started yesterday and we are still alive...barely! Gabriel in the mean while is haveing a great time...as well as some struggles. He is the only native English speaker in his grade which is making it hard to connect with his classmates. They all speak Korean and Japanese. However, he does have some "western" friends that are a couple years older than him. Also, the five boarding kids we have (all Korean) are older (15-16) and have started to take him under their wing. (teaching him to play ping-pong really well) Gabriel also has a private Chinese teacher at the school and we are thrilled that he is getting to learn Mandarin at such a young age.
As for me...I'm going to bed now or I'm going to fall asleep at the keybooaooxodd zzzzzzz(snore)zzzzzzz(snore)
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Congrats on making it through your first days as teachers. :) Gabriel, I love your uniform, especially with your Buffs Crocs.
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