The good news is I love my new job. The school is great, the teachers are wonderful, and the kids are well behaved and considerate. The director of the school could not be more different than the last director. She's always in and out of classrooms staying involved and in the know of what the teachers and students are doing. If there is a disciplinary problem she's there, sometimes before a teacher can even have time to ask for her help. She nips problems in the bud and the students seem to fear her and respect her at the same time. She's the perfect mixture of loving and stern, dishing out chocolates to the students who behave and participate and lecturing students who are slacking or acting out in class in her office and setting up meetings with parents if she needs to. None of this, "well we know kids are using textbooks as weapons against each other buuuut...there's really nothing we can do about it" that went on at CEYCI. The teachers are great too. The school really focuses on English so most of the teachers speak a good amount of English and they've all been eager to help me if I need it or seem lost/confused (which, let's be honest, happens a lot with me, even if I know exactly what's going on. I just have that "how did I get here?" look on my face a lot) The students are all intelligent and relatively eager to learn. They're elementary school kids after all so sometimes making jokes about cheese wins out over learning when class runs long but that's to be expected. They're all happy kids and I haven't seen one instance of bullying between them which is a refreshing change. In the halls everyone says hi to me even the students I've never worked with. It's a great school.
The bad news is they don't have much for me to do. Right now I'm just helping the English classes, working in a conversational role with the students, and acting as a sort of substitute teacher when other teachers are sick or can't come in for whatever reason. So I really only work 1 or 2 hours a day. Which isn't enough to pay the bills. This week I'm not working at all because the students are having tests so there's nothing for me to do. So I'm going to have to try to find another job. I'm hoping to be able to find a second job on top of this one because I'm still holding out hope that something will come up and they'll need me full time. That'd be the best case scenario because it's really nice to look forward to going to work and leave in a good mood! So once again, fingers crossed!
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