My first day as a teacher in Estonia

Lenka (my BFF from uni) was totally right (as she usually is) - teaching part-time is enough. I'm teaching only grades 7, 8 and 9 and  I felt absolutely overwhelmed after only one day with them. Grade 7 - the kids are freshmen to that teenage thing and it got quite annoying to deal with their "very funny jokes" after a while. Grade 8 - the girls are nice but very shy and again, one can hear the boys all lesson long. Grade 9 - only 3 kids - smart, a bit over being the "funny" teenagers. They speak a lot of Estonian, though. Speaking back to them in Czech quite helped :)

I guess having a not-Estonian-speaking teacher was pretty new to them, too. They looked a bit confused sometimes. Next week, I want to introduce some rules, some punishments and to work generally on my authority. Pity I look so young and friendly. I also want to work on my instructions and a bit personalize some tasks. Besides that, I have make my lessons awesome because my mentor's coming to see me. She's not scary or anything but I'd love to impress her. I can feel that everyone's interested how this teaching English without Estonian experiment is going to work.

Off the topic. I found an ad that on one island close to Tallinn they're looking for an English teacher - how cool would that be to go to work by boat? :)

Btw. Did you know that Estonian kids have three months summer holidays? :)