First Day of School

Today was the first day back at school. There are two new teachers starting this semester. Josh, who is from Saskatchewan and Sam, who is from Maryland. Sam actually went to Bowdoin College and majored in Economics, just like someone in my family. I only taught two classes today. They were fairly difficult though because it was the kids' first day of class in an English school, period. So they don't know any English. I haven't taught a class like this before so it should be interesting. The best part so far was having to teach the kids their own English names. My favorites were Bong, Ting, and Merlin. When they got out of class, the kids lined up in a single file line and walked while holding the backpack of the kid in front of them. It was like a cute little train.

I'm about to go on a run with Sam so I think depending on how serious of a runner he is, I may have found a new training partner so that's exciting. Oh, one other thing. At school, during break they decided to do some landscaping. All of the trees that were completely full and mature, they cut the branches off basically back to the trunk. It's really ugly and I'll post some pictures later. I don't understand why they did it, but now there's an ant infestation in the school and the administrators are saying cutting the trees is the cause. Oh, Principal.

I went to bed last night at about 11, and then proceeded to wake up at 1,2,4,5, and finally got out of bed at around 6. Adjusting to the time change is about what I expected it to be: difficult. Anyway, I'm feeling more upbeat about things in general now so get ready for some more positive posts in the future!