If you read my previous post, you'll read about "Deer Class," my class of kids that are around 3 years old. Thankfully, my attacker was moved to another class - he's either older or younger than the other kids, I'm not sure!
Anyways, earlier in the day, I make a friendly wager with the other foreigner that teachers this class. He guesses that it will only take 3 minutes before the kids start to cry, I guess 6 minutes. It takes 2...
So I walk into class and before the other teacher leaves (she's Korean and very good with the little kids), two kids start bawling... One runs out and the other stays but is sobbing and pushing me away. After a little while, the president of the school brings the little guy back and I sit with the crying girl. I draw her a happy face and colour it green. I can see she's getting interested, so I draw here a cat and an orange sun. After this, she decides she is interested too so she stops crying and starts to colour with me.
The little boy keeps being brought in by the president or Korean teachers but keeps running out as soon as they leave. At one point, he comes back by himself and I see his eye peering in through a crack in the door. When he catches sight of me, the door slowly closes... And this is the last I see of him until he opens the door and one of the other little boys roars at him like a dinosaur... and he didn't come back!!
I got a good tip from a friend who reminded me just how young these kids are... I can't really be expected to teach them, can I? I mean at this age, they learn by osmosis! They already started repeating some words after me, and understood if I asked them questions like "Do you like dogs?" or "Do you like green?"
After, we played on the play mat with some toys - which of course caused a big problem when the two little boys wouldn't share - And when one wouldn't give back the toys at the end of class. I solved that by giving the good little kids stickers for giving back the toys, so eventually he did as well.
I think I am learning just as fast as the kids! Steep learning curve!!
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