Volunteer Work!!

During summer vacation, I did volunteer work. I taught English to children aged 2 to 10.

In fact, I held 'Summer Festival' with some of my friends from high school. We had a meeting once a week and we had to think all of schedule. We also had to think the budget, so it was very difficult for us. We were helped by English teacher who teaches English at English school and people who experienced this volunteer work last year. They advised us a lot. Thanks to their help, we could think clearly little by little.

We played many kinds of games and dances. We had two classes depends on students level, so we had to think a lot. The preparation was really hard, but we enjoyed making something very cute equipment. 

Students were very good English speaker, so I was very surprised. I was also surprised at their passion. They always tried to their best, so I respect them. I was nervous at first, but students' smile made me relieved.

From this experience, I learned a lot of things. I really felt the difficulty of teaching something. I have to study how to teach more. I also learned the strong power of stickers. All of children became happy when I gave stickers. Finally, I really felt teacher doesn't just teach something. Teacher has to scold children, praise children and grow children. I believe teacher is very challenging job.

2nd semester was started this week and teacher training also started.

I am really looking forward to studying this semester!