For the last 24 years my title has been “student”. Well for the last 18 days it was “teacher”. What a difference it has been. I never thought that I would be a very good teacher. I never thought that I would actually like being a teacher. My first thought when told that this month our team would be teaching English was “I can’t”, I suck at teaching. And to just put it out there, English was the subject I very disliked in school, and spelling is something I’m not good at. I like math, I’m good at math. Any way I thought I would be ok there is 7 of us that’s a lot of people to teach, maybe I could just help where needed but not really teach. The first week of teaching we taught with in this group of houses called “42 houses”. It was a great time, first bathing the children then teaching basic English. This first week I did very well in just helping on the side lines so to say. Sitting with the children making sure that they sat down and didn’t talk…much. Starting the second week we started teaching at this new school in the area. We met with the teachers the day before the first day of school. They told us that they were going to split us up and put one of us with one of there teachers, and that there were 3 different level of English that they taught. I bet you can imagine what was going through my head at the moment. I was super nervous. I kept telling my self “I can’t, I can’t”. I wanted to leave, then they said that they have 6 classes at the time when we would be there. Yes! I managed to put my self in the class that would have two of us in it. The next day went fine. The second day I found my self more nervous then the first, as one of my team mates wasn’t feeling well and that meant 6 of us and 6 classes. Not just that my I got moved up one level. I was no longer just teaching basic English. The teacher told me that he wanted me to help him teach his class about nouns. I froze I couldn’t for the life of me remember what a noun was, what the rules were. How was I going to teach these children something I couldn’t remember what it was. Well apparently I was totally over thinking things. The class went great, we only however got half way through nouns, and I loved it. Over the next week and a half I just it did, no thinking and stressing about it. It was fun.
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