Eric Teacher and Stephanie Teacher

Our first day of work has finally ended!! It was probably one of the longest days we have ever had.  We left our apartment at 9:30 this morning and got home at 8:30 tonight.  It was the first day of the new semester for the kids and the school had just moved to a new building over the weekend so things were busy and hectic to say the least.  We were assured it would not be like this everyday!  Needless to say we still both enjoyed it, it was just a long day by the time it ended.  We are now known as Eric Teacher and Stephanie Teacher. :)
Before today we had not seen the curriculum, known what ages/levels our students were or what our schedule of classes would be like.  As soon as we arrived at the school this morning we were given our class of kindergarten students and a workbook for each student and were shown to our classroom.  I (Stephanie) have 6 students, ages 3 and 4, who speak/understand absolutely 0 English.  I was surprised at how well behaved they were for the most part and were able to sit at a table for more than 5 minutes, at least at first.  As English teachers our primary job is to teach them conversational English, not just book English.  So my morning was spent reading books to them, talking to them while playing games in the gym room and attempting to teach them color names while they were coloring pictures.  By lunch time one had fallen asleep and 3 others had started crying, which I was unable to do anything about unless I got a Korean teacher to listen to what they were saying.  Even though it was very busy I really enjoyed it and am really excited to work with these students, and hopefully by the end of the semester they will at least know a couple words in English.  :)  Eric had 5 kindergarten students, ages 5 and 6, who speak/understand almost no English.  He spent the morning reading them stories and working on letters.  He didn't have any criers or fall asleepers but he does have Mike.  Mike will keep him busy with the amount of energy Mike showed today.  :)
Our afternoons and evenings are spent teaching different classes of elementary students who range in age from about 7-15.  This was very hectic today, as we didn't know what students we were supposed to teach, where we were supposed to teach, or have the workbooks we were supposed to teach from until after each session was starting.  These students all seemed to be well behaved and studious.  However, even the more advanced students seemed to have a hard time holding a conversation with us.  They have a good grasp on book English- grammar, spelling, punctuation, but have had little experience with actually speaking and talking in English- which is our job to teach them.
It was a very busy day and we are both pretty exhausted but we also think we are really going to enjoy it once things have settled down and we really know what we are supposed to be doing and where we need to be throughout the day.  We are also starting to adjust more as our apartment is starting to feel more like home (especially since we got a bigger bed and will not be sharing a twin bed tonight!) and we experimented with the bus for the first time after work tonight and got where we hoped we would!  We will share more about our first week teaching soon!