My homeroom kids.
There are adorable. They make my heart happy. Sometimes I giggle out of sheer
happiness when I see them around campus. I love them.
Ella: Ella is the cutest little girl ever! When she smiles
her whole face lights up and it is adorable. She is so well behaved! We have
all the kids’ names on the floor in their spot where they are suppose to stand
for opening. Usually all the kids are running around when they get there and we
have to round them up. But Ella is so good! She goes to her spot and stands
there, I love it! She has been gone a lot this month but I love it when she is
there.
Ben: Ben is Ella’s counterpart, they are my quiet sweet little
kids. Ben is ADORABLE! I can’t remember who started it but the kids play this
game where they will come up to me during breaks and put their clenched hand
near my mouth as a microphone so that I’ll sing. (They’ve pretty much learned the
Baby song by JBieb.) The game has now morphed into where they get me singing
and then turn their hand into a gun and shoot me. But Ben still just has me
sing. He is such a sweetheart. He is also super chill. Sometimes the other kids
will steal his tokens or hit him or something and he never gets upset. He has
the cutest smile and loves calling me “techa banana”. I love it.
Angel: I first named her Wendy. It seemed the perfect name.
But then a month after teaching (a month!) her parents wanted to change her
name to Angel. There was nothing I could do about it so I made her a new name
spot on the floor. And I don’t know if it’s just me but is seems like ever
since her name got changed she has been less of an angel and more prone to
acting up. But she is still a sweet little girl. She doesn’t speak a lot of
English (none of the kids really do, they are 4 years old and this is their
first year). She gets along really well with the other kids (even Tim who is a
little bit of a bully.) She is smart too. She always reminds me to get the
token bags when I forget and knows where they are. She’s a good kid.
Marcus: The best way to describe Marcus would be like a
punk-gangster type kid. He just has swag when he walks. He doesn’t get upset and
cry about things, he turns the cold shoulder like he is too cool for you. But
he is sweet at the same time, he always comes and takes my hand to bring me to
the table when it is time for me to go to his group. He loves to have his
picture taken and will get you to take the picture but as soon as the camera is on him he
puts his “cool” look back on, like he doesn’t care or anything. He is so funny.
He loves whispering Chinese into my ear and I don’t know what he is saying! So
I just whisper “don’t speak in Chinese” in his ear. Then he whispers in my ear
again like we’re communicating or something, but truly, neither of us has any
idea what the other one is saying. I love him.
Sami: She joined my class a couple weeks after we had
started but from the very beginning she seemed to be older (she’s not) and just
more advanced. She loves attention being in pictures. She strikes me a someone
who is used to getting her way. Whenever there is something she wants or she is
upset she automatically goes into this cry thing that will immediately stop
once she has what she wants or attention. It drives me crazy. But she is such a
good student. She is a quick learner and continues to show a lot of progress.
She is also very helpful with the other students and loves helping the teacher.
Joey: Joey is a quiet little boy and oh how I love him.
Whenever he sees me he runs and gives me a hug. And by ‘gives me a hug’ I
really mean he hugs my leg, he wraps his little arm around my thigh and just
holds on tight. Its real adorable. And I love how he just giggles and giggles
at the silly things I do, it makes me feel like I’m funny. Sometimes he likes
to scatter the tokens when other kids are trying to count them which makes my
life more difficult, but I can never stay upset. He has these big eyebrows and squished
little face, he looks kinda like an old man in a little body sometimes. He makes
me happy.
Tim: Tim is rather infamous. All the kindergarten teachers
knew who he was after the first few days and even the Primary teachers have
heard of him. He is bigger than most of the other students and has this thing
for hitting people (teachers and students) and he likes to run away. Yet when
you see him outside of class he is the first one to see me and smile and wave,
and he won’t stop until I see him and wave back. Even then sometimes he just
likes to smile and wave at me. He has a lot of ability and does really well in
class…when you have something he wants such has a snack, craft or toy. He is so
excited to see us in the morning. He, like Marcus, could probably be a gang
leader. Sometimes I feel like I’m teaching little gangsters. Tim is cute
though, and I do love him.
I wish you all could meet them, but hopefully you will be
able to reconcile yourself with pictures instead. I will try to post them on Facebook
sometime. We’ll see if THAT happens. J
Also, there are so many other kids in our group A that I shall have to tell you
about, not to mention the other (older) group. But I’ll save that for another
day.
I love China!
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