viernes, 6 de junio de 2008

My first day at work
Narrative Essay

I will never forget the name “Juanito”. I can remember that day perfectly, almost like it was yesterday. I had just arrived to the kindergarten when I saw a lot of kids running everywhere; among them, Juanito, actually I will never forget that name. that day, I got so scared and nervous that I realized that my nightmare had just begun.

A few minutes later, the principal introduced me with the kids, [my group], in fact 46 little sweet kids [until that moment]. So, to start my class I brought the kids some materials in order to make an experiment, and when I started to tell them the directions, I found out that nobody was paying attention and everybody was screaming and running everywhere. What a mess!!! Where are the sweet little children that I met 10 minutes before? I asked myself.
I swore that I just couldn’t handle with that. I was so busy trying to make the activity worked that two children went out of the classroom, something that I didn’t noticed. Nothing could be worst, couldn’t be?

Suddenly, a teacher brought me back the two missed boys, which took me by surprise. “Why you can’t look after your group?, they are only kids!, and Juanito has hit his head”, she said. After all those three awful and endless hours, we started to sing a song to say good bye and also have a bit of relaxing time.

When the parents began to arrive, I took a deep breath because I had a lot to explain. Fortunately Juanito’s mom understood the bad behaviour of his son. After that, I took my stuff in order to leave the classroom, but Juanito’s mom got back and asked me if I had seen a sweater marked with “Juanito’s name, so, how could I forget that name? I really felt so tired that I couldn’t believe that it had been passed four hours, and that it was only the beginning.