Orientation

Hallo!! My name is Ania and I'm a GEPIK teacher :)

Gepik is the Reginal education system that I am working for. They had an awesome orientations last week. I loved last week. No school, no preparation and I basically did art the whole week. 

We got divided into rooms according to the ages we teach at school and also had lectures accordingly. So I was will another teacher who's also teaching elementary level. The cuties that climbs into our hearts. We had so much fun and I think it might be a very nice year after meeting so many new teachers. I also met 2 South Africans there and I had 3 teachers/ Lectures/ Speakers that was afrikaans and came form South Africa. I felt so much closer to home. It's always nice to be able to joke with someone about Zuma haha. 

We did a lot of team exercises and we did A LOT of art. I wasn't sure if I was in the right class at one point because according to me I'm teaching English and not art. But it was all great fun. I had such a fun time. 

Adiyoyin (Nigerian - American) and I laughed so much and we spoke way to much and wrote way to little. We had to  draw each other, get to know each other and write our similarities and differences on the page. We drew each other dancing but there was hardly any words on the page in the end.

The last night we had a big Karaoke night. Two South Africans in one room is a dangerous mix. We took over haha. Roberta is a Zulu lady from Durban and she's awesome. I miss her already. We were owning that stage with our Africa songs and the Americans loved it. We had a great Tina Turner as well ( Nathalie from America) and man can she sing. I must say after that session of dancing and singing I realised how unfit I am. At one stage I couldn't sing because I was so out of breath from dancing. It was absolutely crazy lekker. 

All in all I learned a lot how to combine english classes into activities and art as well as dances and songs. I'm going to have fun in school this year.