Despite the exhaustion that has been following me through my class (the sheer amount of work is, at times staggering)…today it was all worth it.
Today one of my new students told me I had taught a good class.

I spent the weekend working on piles of homework: 2 written assignments, 3 lesson plans, practicing my phonetic alphabet (The sure sign that I’m a dork: I really, really enjoyed playing phonetic Scrabble in class today.) and generally brushing up on verb tenses and grammar.
I fell asleep late last night and didn’t get enough sleep…not how to start Monday morning, a bad precedent for the week. I only survived today because of strong coffee.
But this afternoon I had an unassesed lesson with my class, covering idioms that use the word mind (slip my mind, mind the gap, would you mind and the like). I wasn’t nervous because my teacher wasn’t observing me, so I just went about the task at hand. The students found it a little confusing at first, but I noticed throughout the rest of the class ‘mind’ idioms were sneaking into their speech. It was great.
After class, a new student asked me all about the teaching program: how we got in, how long it was, how long we had been teaching…? I told him it was just our sixth day and his jaw dropped. He smiled and said he really liked it and that I did a good job, and so did my classmates. It was really great! I’m certain he’ll be back tomorrow.
I am seriously loving school…learning, teaching, observing. I have learned so much in the past week it’s amazing. I can’t wait to do this for a living!