Bittersweet

Hello darlings!
How are we all today? I'm pretty good if you're asking which you're probably not.

Today was my last day of Work Experience which is I guess a bittersweet kind of thing. Bitter because I have to leave all the lovely kids and sweet because I've gained so much from the experience. Seriously, I would happily just work there for another week or forever. It's such a lovely job, I think it really is an underrated job. Most people think that working with young children is all fun and games but what do you do when the kids aren't happy and don't want to get a long? You have to keep using different strategies to get them to listen to you without ever losing your patience and using a clear, firm tone and you have to explain to them properly in words they understand. I spent at least 20 minutes trying to convince a boy to wheel his bike to the shed because it was pack-up time. I tried absolutely everything; I asked him if he wanted to go home and he said no, I asked him if he wanted to see his mummy and daddy and to do that he had to put away his bike and he said no, he kept repeating "I want to ride it." Finally, another kid said "Do you want to come to my house?" and he actually said "Yes" and put his bike away. So, I think that little boy could be a potential kindergarten teacher.

I had such a fantastic day today, there are so many memories that I'll always remember until when I'm 80. There was a boy today who sang the Hi-5 theme song with me and every time the word 'Hi-5' came on, he would Hi-5 me. He then proceeded to sing "Ready or Not" with me as we were completing a 123 piece puzzle. There was a little boy who learnt how to swing on the swing himself and he didn't even know it. I was actually only pretending to push him because if he went any higher, he would hurt himself. There was another little boy whose patience levels increased throughout the week. When I met him on Tuesday, he would fight over the toys and wouldn't share, when I was playing with him today, he was waiting for his turn oh so patiently and it almost made me cry happy tears. So in summary: I love kids. They're all so clever and they don't even know it. I mean, these kids were doing 123 piece puzzles, I could not manage that shit when I was four.

I just finished all their thank you/I'll always remember letters to each kid and I'm going to mail it to them because there was this boy who checks the mail box every day and I think he'll enjoy mail actually getting addressed to him. :)

Welp, it's Doomsday tomorrow. Ughh. Haven't even touched my piano exam songs and I'm only halfway through the script of my Vietnamese oral tomorrow. Oh well.

Good bye deary pies! Love you! :D

MAARY.