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Yesterday, I found out that teaching Prep students is way more tiring than a session in the gym.
It's amazing how those kids made me sleep from 6pm to 6am.

So let's skip the more boring parts of the day (like getting chased down, interrogated and smashed into a basketball court's pole) for the story of our first service at the KBF Escopa 3 Day Care Center.

Roughly 30 students were assigned to us, and that day we were supposed to teach Road signs. Josh, Matthew, Russ and I were pretty psyched up since we had a lesson plan that was prepared already and we knew we just had to follow it.

Then things happen.

When we get to the center, our teacher faces us up with the news that she wasn't going to stay with us. She said she had to go to one of the other centers to assist our classmates there who had no teacher with them. We were left to teach the kids by ourselves, and we thought "Yay, we get more freedom to teach." We missed the fact that this meant more freedom for the kids too.

So I have 5 tips for anyone who has to do the same thing as we did. :))

1. Never bring toys to a class of kids this young. It's a fact that they love the inanimate objects more than they love you.

So our ice breaker activity involved each of us pointing at a chosen kid with a toy to have him or her tell his or her name to us. This part got hard even before it started because all the boys would grab on to your hand and start screaming, "KUYA, AKIN NA LANG!" Try carrying 5 boys around with one arm. Wahahaha.

2. When separating two boys in a fight, make sure they're far enough from each other. They have ranged attacks too.

So boy A pushes boy B off his chair, and boy B retaliates by punching back. I get in the middle of their fight and pull boy B away from boy A. Boy A decides to spit at boy B, who had my arm around him. Result: My arm was covered in saliva after a few shots by Boy A. Ten seconds later, boy A and B's tempers have cooled off and my arm felt violated.

3. Carry a picture of a girl in your wallet, just to prove that you're straight to a kid who won't listen to you.

Obviously, a tip for guys. One kid was calling Russ gay, and couldn't be convinced otherwise. She wants a girl's pic in your wallet as proof, and nothing else will even count as valid to her. Hahaha!

4. Use your height to your advantage. It's one of the only things you can beat the kids with.

Store the things which they shouldn't be getting in high places. There's a downside to this though. They'll start grabbing onto you and begging you to lift them up so you can get the items for them. Good luck resisting, I have no tips for that. HAHAHA!

5. Your only way to be heard is to scream.

Screaming is tiring. 2 hours of screaming is more physically draining than it seems. =))

So that's it. Hahaha. It was still a very enjoyable activity, and I can't wait for next Friday. Okay, maybe I can.

.MrRobby.
Kids are tiring. But I absolutely love them.