The new school semester started and my new class of third graders are so cute! There are 15 students in my class this year. Today there is only a half day of school so after I assigned seats to them, we started our first lesson on agriculture and then their first set of multiplication tables. The children were so attentive to the lessons even though it was the first day of school in two months. I'm so proud of them! The other teachers tell me that I praise my students too much if they get something right, but I think they seem to learn well enough.
It's only my second year of teaching but I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. Sure there are bad parts like when a child inevitably gets mud in their socks and shoes during the rainy season and then starts screaming uncontrollably. There was also a time at the end of the last school year when the students and I were working in the greenhouse and one boy got angry with another and they started throwing everything within reach. Luckily I got in the way of the clay pot and that was the last of it. I'm just glad the doctors were able to remove the splints in time for the new school year! This year, the school decided that until the students are in the sixth grade, they will be using plastic plant pots.
Well, that's all for today. Tomorrow I will start to teach the students the basics of flower arranging.
(Journal entry from overly eccentric teacher: Ms. Millie, 23 years old)
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I enjoyed the details that show your imagination.
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