Start of School

Well, I just finished my third day of classes. Overall, I really like all the kids. They are really quite which is strange to me and hard to get used to. I have 2 chemistry classes and 2 general science middle school classes. In chemistry I have tried to dive in, getting through the first chapter this afternoon and then working on lab safety stuff tomorrow. They want us to do some pretesting to get a base line so I am planning on doing that on Friday, rounding out a great first week. The General Science I have been a little slower in the reason being that the 7th period one became the dumping ground for ESL students. The class swelled from 3 students to 22 and today I got a level one ESL student (there are three levels and then the students reamed.)

OK, I am really tired so this whole post has been so scatterbrained so here in the middle of it I am going to apologize.

My first class is Chemistry with 12 students, the second is General Science with 7 and then the third is Chemistry again with 11. I then get a break until 7th period where I have the class I already described.

The Other teachers here are really great. I am going out with them in a little while to grab some dinner. I really enjoy spending time with them. Tomorrow I am going to go on an IKEA run and I am going to try to get a chair for my desk.

So, I was trying to be really clever when I came up with the title on my blog. I the inspiration from a website for expats in Beijing called the beijinger. The only problem is that today I was looking around and I found out there is a guy blogging under the same name. Now I feel really unoriginal. That is all.

Alright, I am really not doing well with the concentrating thing so I will leave it here. Hope everyone back home is great. I miss you all