The experience in Thailand so far has been amazing, even though half the time I have no idea what I'm doing. At times teaching is challenging, especially teaching ESL. But for the most part I enjoy it. But I will say teaching children is not my thing. I've always wanted be a teacher and I've always wanted to be a high school English teacher. With my situation here, I've been teaching all different ages. This term I acquired a children's beginners class. For the first week, things were great. But lately I feel like I don't have any control. Part of the problem is their ages. My class consists of two eleven year olds, a seven year old, a four year old, and a three year old. I don't really have any problems with the two older ones, but the younger kids are a different story. Especially the three year old, he is just too young to be in a classroom setting; therefore he distracts the others kids which leads to my mental breakdown of frustration. It's a one day at a time kind of thing, I go into the classroom with that mindset. I want the majority of the children to learn all that they can, and I pray that I can handle the frustration.
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