assessment week. surprise!

This Monday when I arrived at school at 7am the principal informed me that this week is assessment week- last Thursday she told me it was review week and assessment week was in 2 weeks. The syllabus also said I had 2 weeks until assessment week- I had not made tests yet and I had full lesson plans made up for a review week.

Apparently the Thai teachers decided to make assessment week a week earlier, and no one told me until that week. So I made 2 days be packed with review and wrote up tests for all 6 classes overnight and today I started testing the kids- which to me sounds silly almost to test 3-6 year olds- they’re so little!

So far its been a headache and it is really tiring. I pull the kids out of their Thai classes and do their tests with them one-on-one, and I have 100 KIDS to test! Today I got through about 33 kids. The nursery kids were the hardest because they just wanted to play, 3 year olds aren’t meant to take tests of any sort. Normally I have a Thai teacher with me, but they didn’t accompany me today, so I was all alone with 5 nursery kids at a time trying to test them.

In my kindergarten 3 class the bully kid was beating up on another kid and totally punched him really hard against the wall. It was bad, but the kid was alright. The bully kid (his name is First) started freaking out and crying as I carried him to his teacher’s room, and he was telling me in Thai that he didn’t want to go to the teacher, so I made him go back once he calmed down and apologize, so he did. It went very well. I was very surprised. Then I got them both to do their tests even after that.

Well, 70 tests left to go in the next two days, wish me luck!

p.s. I’m probably really tired today also because I woke up at 4:30am and went on a 5 mile run at 5am. I was woken up by mosquitoes eating me. I need to find a mosquito net because I sleep with my window open, and my window has a screen on it, but it doesn’t seal, so mosquitoes get in and love to suck my blood while I sleep, then I wake up to buzzing in my ear and itching all over. It is really annoying. Sometimes I wake up and spray bug spray all over myself, but then I just wake up in the morning feeling really gross from inhaling all the bug spray and having it all over me.