So I have switched blogs, that's why I uploaded two posts at the same so welcome to my new blog.

Anyway, I officially started teaching last week and it's definitely a miracle. I expected the students to be weeding for another week since they were so lazy about the whole process. We had our first assembly and there were about 200 students. I was surprised at how small the school was but I found out later that there are 600 students and most of them are skipping school until Monday.

I taught JS1 social studies and they were quite well behaved for their ages. They are so small, and I mean, coming from me since I'm 5'3, they really are small.  Unfortunately, they're academically behind and when I tried to revise what they covered last term, most of them didn't remember. Also, I asked them to draw their family tree and explain their relationship with their family members and they didn't understand the aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews or in-laws. Hopefully, they'll get everything soon.

Then I moved to SS1 for government and they were worse. Apparently, the students weren't taught govt in  their 1st term because they had no teacher so they've only taken the subject since 2nd term. Anyway, they could not define govt, the students told me a bicameral legislature has 4, 5 or 6 chambers and they didn't know the difference between socialism and capitalism. I went through their notes before I asked questions and they covered all this last term. There were 15 students in the class (it's supposed to be 40) and they thought it was hilarious not to answer anything.

I did ask the students in both classes what they'll like to be when they grow up and the JS1 students wanted to be bankers, doctors, nurses, one even said a corper...haha. I had to explain that wasn't a permanent job. The SS1 students thought it'll be funny to mess with me and said things like welders, NEPA man (whatever that means because they wouldn't explain but they thought it was really funny), electricians etc. One girl seriously told me she'll like to be a trader and I thought she cannot aspire for more? Cause I know she's probably not thinking of it on a large scale but hey, I might be wrong.

On a more personal note, my friend, Toyosi, reintroduced (yea cause I've met her once before) to her friend, Sope, that's also serving in some village and staying in Osogbo and she's lots of fun so Osogbo isn't looking so bleak. Oh and my mum got me a few dresses so that I don't seem so rebellious as a teacher...lol. Anyway, I'll still be wearing my trousers villagers.

School Assembly

Late students getting punished

The students