I have found my calling...

I’m pretty sure I am on the road to becoming the best teacher ever. Being my second day of school I am basically a seasoned pro with everything second grade. I’m just kidding but I really do like my job, and I really like my kids. I personally think they are really funny. For example, today we were talking about flight and the Wright brothers, and the kids were asking questions about when they were alive and when they died. Both brothers were born in the late 1800’s and one of my kids raised his hand and seriously asked they lived before there was color. I thought it was really cute. My classroom is slowly coming along, and I have decided that I am not going to decorate it like I could. I don’t have the energy and the humidity kills everything. While I am on the subject of my classroom let me tell you of 3 extremely disturbing things that take residence there. First of all there are cockroaches. Before coming here I did not know that there are two kinds of cockroaches in this world. One kind comes around because of filth, food, or whatever. We have all seen them in the states. They are smallish and fast. What I didn’t know, however, is that there is a whole breed that comes out to feast on wood and paper. If I was a cockroach I could think of no better place to gorge myself than in a 1st/2nd grade classroom. These on the other hand are quite large. You really don’t see them in the day, but you know they are there. The paper that is left out has nibble marks on it from them. Another scary animal that has taken refuge in my classroom is a wasp. So far I believe that this wasp is flying solo, but you never know. I have always been told with any kind of rodent that if you see one there are thousands behind the walls. I hope this isn’t the case. I thought that the wasp lived in this hole in my ceiling, but when I told the teacher next door she told me that “No, that’s where the rat has been coming in”. What? I know rats were not on the brochure, but apparently they are everywhere. People are acting like I am so naive because I didn’t know the island was infested with rats. We are not talking Stewart Little either. Apparently they are the size of rabbits. I don’t know what any of you would do in a situation where you saw a rat that was rabbit sized, in fact, I don’t know what I will do when I see this allusive and creepy creature, but lets all hope that students are not around. So far animals are the only drawback to my job, so it’s promising, but I’m not sure if it is my calling. What is my calling though is far greater than anything I could have imagined. Polynesian Dancing. Let me just though out there that I started classes tonight. I am not what most would call “good” yet, but I have faith in myself. Those Polynesians really know how to move. I probably wont be able to walk tomorrow, but “no pain, no gain”. That’s what I’ve always said. Until next time…