Today was my last day at the first school. This was the school were Kru Pecht taught, who has been sort-of mentoring me. I didn't realize I was actually going to be teaching their at first, neither did Projects Abroad, so I never got a class schedule or anything. I was surprised to find that some of the classes were 2.5 hours long, but we still filled the time. The only day I had any trouble was with the 2nd graders, but I think that was because they didn't have a teacher for the 2.5 hours before me, so they were crazy. But we learned the sounds of the letters and made alphabet books and practiced spelling with letters we made and all kinds of things. The depressing thing I learned is that it's hard to play games with them, especially the younger ones. This sounds counter-intuitive, but the only instruction their used to is copying what the teacher says, so they have no idea how to play games with rules where they are out of their seats. It was easier with the older kids, but you could still tell they weren't used to doing it. But on the whole, they were very sweet and eager to learn. They would run up to me when I got there and say, "good morning, teacher!" over and over because that's all they know.
Tomorrow and Saturday, I have to present at another conference. This one seems a bit more low key, but there are still 100 teachers supposed to be there and many of them with even lower English levels. Hope they comprehend all the games I'm going to try with them!