First week done!

So I finished my first week, and it is
HARD
AWESOME
DISCOURAGING
TIME CONSUMING
OCCASIONALLY HUMILIATING
and other extremely emphatic adjectives. I really like the lower level which I teach. I had a rough first day with the young teenage class, but everything came together after that. (The class popular boy decided that he liked me and would stop misbehaving, so everyone else followed suit. Am I actually selling the English language with sex appeal?) Anyway, they all love my activities and they love me! I just finished reading their first journal entries to me and it was soooooo cute!

Unfortunately, my Tuesday-Friday classes all hate fun (and rainbows and kittens and so on, I'm sure). I don't like the building that i have to teach in, I don't like the class material so far, there are a few decent students but for the most part the class dynamic is just awful. I've had to take quizzes and phones away and get on people's cases for all kinds of stuff. However, after reading their first journal entries, I have some renewed hope that they don't all hate the class.
More later, I'm filling in next week's lesson plans somewhat frantically since I went shopping with Kamila this morning :D :D :D GIRLS' DAY OUT IN RUSSIA, YEA!!!