Little Kids: 1, Hilary Teacher: 0

This week for Korean kids is the first week of the new school year. For me, this means that all the classes got restructured, a bunch of kids graduated and we got a bunch of new kids. Today at work it was semi-chaos with new kids showing up, classrooms being double booked, kids not knowing where to go, and a bunch of kids who have never been in a school environment before (oh and two brand new classes of Korean age 5 year old kids - that means they are most likely 3 years old!)... Anyways you can guess how "awesome" my day was - to make matters worse, one of the other teachers got into a fight with the head teacher so went home... extending my day by about an hour... so teaching from 9:30-7 pm with no breaks (aside from the 5 minutes between class, and the 15 minutes times two in the afternoon).. and because it was so chaotic, those breaks in between classes were basically non-existent...

After lunch, for 45 minutes I teach Deer class. It's the afore-mentioned brand new class of kids that are about 3 years old. So I get into class, and one kid is bawling. He runs out of class, all the other kids run out after him, so the president of the school has to escort them all back in. One little boy sits beside me and glares at me angrily out of the corners of his eyes. Then he starts to hit me, so I try to be nice but stern and tell him to stop. During all this, about every 5 or 10 minutes, some kids get up and run out of the room. The crier comes back in but quickly breaks down into tears again, leaving class, after which about 2 other kids leave class too. Including glary-mcpunch, who leaves class. When I try to stop him he starts to physically fight with me to open the door. At this point, I let him go because I don't want to have a fight with a 3 year old on his first day of school, besides I don't speak Korean and have no idea what's going on. This carries on in a loop for the rest of class.... I have no idea what to do! So stressful.. one of the longest and worst 45 minutes of my life! Who knew that it would be so hard!!