A (Rather Stressful) Field Trip
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized
Part of Prep B on the bus
- I love how Medhanit posed!
Isn't she cute? Meron is super loveable!
Miss Melat and Ali with beautiful smiles
I asked the kids to be silly. This is my all time favorite picture!!
I like how random this picture is.
Since it’s the end of the year, and my beautiful/special/wonderful prep students are moving onto Grade 1, we took them all on a field trip. I was under the impression that field trips are supposed to be fun, but unfortunately this one was rather stressful. Teachers hardly smiled. They shoved kids into straight lines and rows and then asked them to smile for the many pictures I was asked to take. I wish they had just let me use my own artistic license and take the pictures I wanted to take, but sometimes my bosses are rather controlling. I struggle with this.
On the plus side, I had a blast singing songs on the bus with my students. It was a wonderful feeling as a teacher to hear how well they knew all of the English songs I had taught them. I also loved watching them smile as they went on rides at the amusement park and saw animals at the zoo, especially the lions and monkeys. Their joy was definitely my joy that day and I’m so glad I was there to see it, in spite of the stress.
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