Working

Today was my first real day of work as an English teacher. The place is a little far away, it takes about 1hr and 15 minutes to get there. I have to take a bus first then switch to a subway but its not that bad. So today was the first class, I only had two today. In the first class it was three boys two were 10 years old and the other was 9 years old, for the two ten year olds it was there first time studying English. It was pretty good, we were moving pretty fast and when I finished what I had planned we were only half way though the time we had. This was in part to the fact that I had to cut out a game I had planned due to not having the correct material I needed (flash cards with countries or flags on them). So to fill the time I added another introduction phrase for them to work on. Like I said it went pretty good and by the end of the class they could ask "What is your name?", say "My name is xyz", ask "Where are you from?", say "I am from xyz" (they practiced other countries rather than have them say Japan every time), and the one I added was "How old are you?" and how to say "I am X".

The second class was more of a private lesson with a 11 year old girl, she actually knew a lot. Her pronunciation is very good. Most of this first class was spent just trying to gage where she was and what she needed to work on. It wasn't much fun I'm sure but I told her next time would be better. We are going to work on some new words, now that I know what she does and doesn't know, with some games like memory with cards and matching pictures to words that kind of stuff.

It was kinda of stressful being the first time and all but in the end it was fine. The boys seemed to have a good time and the girl was very impressive, words with "th" are very hard for Japanese people but she was just fine with them.

So for right now I'm just working one day a week with more days coming and thats just fine for me.