No Longer a Professional Bum

YAY! I finally got a job:) I'm now an English Teacher at Tseung Kwan O Alliance Kindergarten. It all happened really fast. I had the interview with the principal on Wednesday. Then I started working the next day Thursday. They were in a huge hurry to hire since their English Teacher suddenly quit on them (school had already started). So long story short, I've already worked 3 days (thurs, friday, sat). I don't think I've ever been this tired in my life. But I'm learning ALOT about the HK school system, dealing with 30 kindergarteners...and much more valuable lessons. Hopefully I'll get used to the hectic hours, yesterday, we all worked from 8:30am-9pm. It was parents meeting sorta deal but on a larger scale. About 150 parents and I had to give a speech! Remember, this was only my 2nd day on the job. I was pretty terrified...you know me and public speaking. But in the end I did ok, didn't throw up or faint or anything like that;) Today, our school participated in an expo to promote our school. We handed out about 400 copies of our brochure in 4 hours! HK people are so efficient! The teachers at the school are also around my age, 20 somethings so its easy to get along with them.
Hope I'll get used to all this very soon. Got to build up my stamina to work with these kids. Who knew kindergarteners could be such a handful? One kid pinched me on the butt on day 2. As challenging as this job is, I hope it will be just as rewarding.

And although I was full of complaints, overwhelmed, totally exhausted and a bit depressed after the first day of work, I really took comfort in this verse (thanks to Carmen!).

"For I know the plans I have for you", God says, " plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11