Last Class

September 27

Thursday was my very last class with my students at Beerseba. We had a fiesta to celebrate all their hard work throughout the school year; we shared chips, giant bottles of pop and I gave a little gift to each student. It’s definitely sad to leave my students as we’ve been together since January. It also doesn’t make it any easier when they say: “por favor seño, no te vayas” (please teacher, don’t go). It’s been a good experience, there’re really good kids and I’ll miss them a lot.

It’s been a personal learning experience as well. I never wanted to be a teacher; I believe the main reason was that I felt incapable or inadequate somehow. This experience has shown me that I can go in front of a class full of kids and educate them. I won’t say there weren’t challenges along the way. Creating the curriculum was the biggest challenge, as the school doesn’t have any materials for teaching English. Also, not knowing the language made it very difficult; I thought to myself “how am I going to teach these kids a different language when I can’t even speak theirs?” Then there were days when I’m sure that someone gave my students coffee for breakfast!

Though there were challenges we made it through and had lots of fun along the way.