...exhausting.
It's 8am. We're having our flag raising ceremony and I'm listening from my classroom because I'm just too tired to stand outside for that long.
Am I dehydrated? Over-tired? Getting sick?
Probably.
All I know is I'm exhausted.
...hot.
It's 90 degrees with 85% humidity. There are no windows in my classroom.
Enough said.
...dusty.
Not a day goes by when I don't leave work covered from head to toe in chalk dust.
...dirty.
I don't think our floor, table, or hands will ever be clean.
...hard work.
Not harder or easier than teaching in the States. Just hard in different ways.
...exciting.
Teaching a successful lesson, "discovery learning" with my students, and watching their eyes light up when they finally understand something are just a few of the exciting parts of my day.
...FUN!
We play with play-doh. We learn using legos. We sing. We finger paint (and sometimes the paint actually gets on the paper!) We enjoy each other.
...rewarding.
My students once had nothing. No home, no family, no hope. Now, they have all of those things. And I get the privilege of looking around my classroom and my school and knowing that through education these kids have opportunities that they never would have had otherwise.
There isn't much that's more rewarding than knowing that God is using you to impact His Kingdom through the lives of children.
(Plus I love hearing them call me Madame Erin.)
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