Beginning of the school year
School is staring next week! The first day of the school year is September 17 th , and I am thrilled to be getting to work. The summer has been nice and relaxing, getting to know my new family and the people in my lovely village but now it is time to get serious. Many things are taking off with the start of school. I will start the year with two weeks of observations. Sitting in on classes and observing the students as well as my counterparts, I will get to know everybody at my new school much better. Using all this observation I will choose which classes I will be teaching for the year. This also means starting to get involved with the students, hosting clubs and events, decorating the English cabinet and working towards the goals my counterparts have for adding to English resources. Our first goal is to build a small English book library of young adult literature that would interest the students and encourage them to practice their English reading skills. I have been looking into...