This week all normal kids classes are off and the kids have a Summer holiday. However, work doesn't stop for the teachers - oh no - as we get to teach Summer Intensive Courses to 2-3 year olds and 4-5 year olds. The students come every day for three days and have a different teacher each day. It's a nice chance for the kids to mess around with a new person and for us to play around with some new kids. HOWEVER, I was a little nervous as past experience dictates that kids that age have one of 4 reactions to me:
1) Shyness
2) Curiosity
3) Enthusiasm/amazement
4) Fear/crying/telling their mum they want their old teacher
In fairness, I'd be freaked out by a gangly foreigner with big starey eyes and - as it happens - a loud Hawaiian shirt on (it was Aloha week at that school), but that's little comfort when children all around you are sobbing and forming massive snot bubbles out of their little noses.
Thankfully, all the kids were great - a little bit of shyness, but generally hugely excitable and very very cute. One kid in particular was full of beans and kind of roared before every answer - "what're these?" "rrrrrrRRRRRRROAR BANANAS!!". I have more of these classes on Saturday so it could still go tits up, but at the moment they're not the cry-fest I feared they might be.
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