So, I am completing my last day (Saturday) of Orientation and Training Week. On the whole it’s been effective; we’ve learned how to develop structured lesson plans, how to manage the behavior of our kids, we’ve learned about our kids’ background and several issues of diversity and working with adolescents. It’s been exhausting and we’re working roughly 7:30AM to 6PM. There are 17 of us living in the dorms, which is fantastic. It’s social, loud, cheery and so many fun people. I’ve met some great people who are somehow very different and more relaxed than Harvard folks (no offence to you all; I like you all too!). Unfortunately, we have to buy our own food each night; we have no kitchen in the dorm. We do have two microwaves and two mini-fridges and some granola bars etc that were donated to us by the staff here and the parents of participating students!
The kids come on Monday morning, which is exciting and oh-my-god-inducing as well! This will be a well-deserved half-weekend! Hopefully we can hit the pool again and rest a lot and prepare for Monday’s first teaching gig!
Off to another training session… tata!
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