the first day of teaching...

so i forgot to talk about my crazy first day of teaching.

so at the school there was an english teacher from the philippines already. she was still there when i arrived. i talked to both the admin and the filipino english teacher and they both told me that we would be teaching together-which seemed weird to me. she was going to teach half of the lesson and i would teach the other half. so we did this for day 1 until the last class when she was called out of the room by the head of school.

they fired her. she came back in the room crying and talking to her husband on the phone. i didnt know what to say. i had talked to the head of school earlier in the day and she was saying how parents were complaining because the filipino teacher wasn't teaching english correctly-since it was not her second language and she had an accent, etc. the parents were noticing their kids pronouncing things wrong. also the admin did not think she was a good teacher apparently. they want me because i am a native speaker, etc.

but wow. so i was still sitting in the english room when she came back and was crying. i didnt know what to say to her. i saw it coming. but she had no idea. so then i was on my own. i had to prepare for english after school club in 20 minutes because she would not be here to teach it.

the kids were then asking where she was the next day. i told them she went home.

that whole thing messed stuff up for a while, but now they are on track.

the parents are happy now because they have a white, american woman teaching their kids english. pressure's on me!