Tuesday was the first day of school! We had been preparing for this day for the past week. We tried thinking of every possible situation so that we would know how to handle everything. But you can plan and plan and plan and it will never go as you plan! The first two days have been that way!

School begins at 7:55 but breakfast starts at 7:20. However there are students at school at 7am! Thankfully there is someone on duty for this reason so it's not mandatory for us to be there at 7, but on the 1st day we wanted to be there to greet students and their parents.

Every student was present. So we had a total of 62 students! This is exciting because we are only 10 students away from being at the maximum number of students. We had an assembly at 8am and then we began the day.

First was 2nd grade English, we (the three English teacher) taught the rules and procedures for our class. It went really well. Next was 1st grade English split into two classes. Again this went really well. I guess we planned better than we thought.

After the morning I pretty much had the rest of the afternoon off to plan and get ready for the next day! The first day went so well, I had high hopes for the rest of the week.

Then there was Wednesday... This day started off basically the same; home room, English, lunch, and then the disastrous afternoon. I was supposed to have the afternoon free until our English IT teacher needed a TA and I went down to help, not knowing that it would be for all afternoon. And then after his two classes I had my own English Library class. It was just insane! And tiring. And chaotic. And it was only day two!!! God give me patience and grace for the students and coworkers.

*this is the first place I have been where the student flat out disrespect their teachers. The local teachers are respected and the students obey them, but the foreign teachers have no such luck. :( I have a lot of students tell me "No" and not follow any directions I give.