Tomorrow I become a kindergarten teacher.... wish me luck!

Tomorrow I start a new full-time teaching job at a kindergarten across the street from where I live. It all seems a bit too good to be true, and I've learned that in China, it usually is. Still, I can't help but hope and trust that this is the job for me, that I'll love it to bits, that I'll have swell coworkers and one hundred and seventy five wonderful little students.

That's right, one hundred and seventy five students. There are seven classes with an average of twenty-five students in each class, ranging in age from two to six years old. I'll be the only foreign teacher at the school, and I'll be teaching two classes a week to each class. The classes are 20-30 minutes long. They have another kindergarten that they want me to teach 4-6 classes a week at as well.

It seems like a great place to work. The schedule is pretty relaxed, the people I've met so far are friendly and accommodating. From what I've been told, my work day looks like this: I go to work at 8 am to greet the kids as they arrive. Afterwards, while the kids are settling in and eating their breakfast, I go home to eat my own. I go back to the school at around 9:30 or 10:00, do some teaching and hang out with the kids, and at 11:30 it's lunch time. My lunch break is about four hours long. Enough time to rest and regain some energy for the afternoon. I go back at around 3:30. At 4:30 the kids start to leave, and I hang out at the entrance saying goodbye as parents and grandparents come to pick them up. At 5:30 my work is done. So it looks like I'll be working an average of five hours a day. Suits me just fine! Fingers crossed that it turns out to be as good as it sounds.

Wish me luck!

The kindergarten I'll be working at. It's called 'DWIN.' (I forget what it stands for.)