When I went to Turkey to live there for a bit as an Erasmus student I had my first experience in teaching English to pupils in a primary school. Words cannot really convey how it all looked. Me and Weronika with whom I was teaching (yes, 2 teachers for about 30 kids squeezed in one classroom) experienced a situation when you feel like a celebrity. Two fair skinned, ginger and blonde hair girls, with green and blue eyes were welcomed enthusiastically by in fact, not only our students but a swarm of students from other classes who happened to see us standing in a school corridor. Children were extremely curious and happy to meet us. Their teacher let us conduct a lesson, which surprisingly ended on giving autographs(literally!), hugging, complimenting and asking countless number of personal questions. When it comes to conducting lessons each ended in a mayhem and the odds for holding a well-organised lesson were slight. Whatever method we tried to keep our Turkish students calm wasn't enough, for they were yearning for details concerning Poland and us. Despite the fact that our lessons weren't much of a success, I really loved those kids. I liked the child's curiousity and their huge grins from ear to ear every time we got to the school. I will not forget their undisguised misery after we told them we ended our teaching practice. Although, every time we got back home extremely tired after the day spent at school, I'm sure me and Weronika felt we lived something truly amazing, remarkable and edifying.
P.S. The photo above is not of our students, for they were older then the ones we had lessons with. Those were bunch of scary boys trying to throw something on us, I don't quite remember what was it now.. but I guess a frog or sth haha buu
