Taught half the day - it went well. The girls had personal development today and it was great to see them interact on such a different level - made me realize how young these girls really are and yet the majority of the class that dont attend (about 20 of them) are either pregnant or have babies already. After this class my mind kept wandering towards the possibility of me focussing my teaching towards this type of education.. especially for disadvantaged teena...

Taught the full day today - Money & change, sentence structure, business & profit and food chains/webs.. had a girl walk out of my class with about half an hour to go.. its weird coz the girls hold that power over you in that they can just leave and not come to school.. still trying to get my head around how i discipline them because i cant too much otherwise they simply wont come to school and i want them to come to school yet i have to discipline them o...

Did I say it feels like I am in another country? Because it really really does! Taught all morning this morning and it went really well.. the girls are warming up to me which is good maybe its because they liked what I was wearing today ? After school we headed out to watch the local bball game - what a crazy atmosphere feels like we are in the ghetto in america.. it was outside and the crowd was huge! and the boys who were playing played with such a high inten...

Today I taught a lesson on money and calulcating change aswell as 2 lessons on organisms, mammals, reptiles and amphibians.. this really jogged my memory with what I knew! Whats hard in this context is the language barrier theres only so much I can teach the girls especially when some can barely understand english.. its also nerve racking when they keep laughing at you and speaking in their native tounge and one girl keeps saying shes teasing you kara.. bloody te...

First Day with my yr7-9 class of girls. The teacher I'm working with (Chani) is awesome, shes super laid back. I was super super nervous and the girls are quite intimidating as they are all my height or taller but it all went well.. I got up and spoke all about myself and my life and they seemed somewhat interested which was better than them not being interested at all i guess. It's really hard hearing the stories behind these girls lives but apparantly it's nec...