I’m possibly too tired to make this coherent this evening
but I’ll give it a go: My First Day at School.
By the end of the morning I was thinking yes, this is great,
I think I’m really going to like teaching. By the middle of the afternoon, I
was really dying to go home. (Due to the fact I’m still having a
palaver over how I’m getting home, I still didn’t get back till seven this evening.)
Fortunately, I don’t think this is because I’d decided I was
going to hate it, but more because I’d been up since half six, trying to make
myself intelligible to seven year olds in a language they didn’t really
understand, and concentrating really hard on doing something I’d never done
before. Also, the teachers/classes I had in the morning had me participating
much more than the lessons I was in in the afternoon... although given that one
of those was history and one was art, that wasn’t really hard.
However, the kids are (still) so lovely. It’s honestly like
I’m a celebrity walking through the school, because they all want me to talk to
them, and shout my name and say hello. I think I’m kind of a novelty for them
but it’s still nice. Today one girl told me she liked my shoes and another boy
remembered when my birthday was (I’d told him last week). And I got asked AGAIN if I'd ever seen the Queen. There’s also a girl
in one of my classes who looks exactly like that little girl with the blonde
bob in the Petit Filou advert.
Homesickness (possibly as a result of the stress of the past
couple of weeks) has been creeping up on me a bit the past few days, but not
too badly, and I’m hoping it will be alleviated with a visit from Josh this
weekend which I am very much looking forward to. I may actually do the
sightseeing thing round Orléans for the first time properly as a result and
will hopefully feel refreshed and ready to face classrooms full of kids again
on Monday!
Genuinely too tired to say much more now so to sign off, here is a
picture of my favourite biscuits from Italy that I found in Carrefour (yes, I have only really been taking pictures of food since I got here).
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