NGLOW: Orientation #2

It has now officially been a full week since I moved to Dongtan and started working at NGLOWkids (though I have officially signed the contract only yesterday) and today was my second "orientation" day. NGLOW opened three schools so far, and the one in Dongtan is just a baby that has been around for a few months only. For that reason, we do not have that many kids so far, but are making promotional activities on Saturdays to get the parents to see what the dynamic of NGLOW is like. 

On those days, the school is open from 11 to 4:30 and during that time the kids that subscribed got to do many games and activities using both English and Korean - some of the kids who come already know a little English and some still don't know any, so we both have Korean and foreign teachers leading the activities. 

The very first day I started "working" for NGLOW, I went to such an 'orientation' day. Parents come to school with their baby boy or girl (between 3 to 6 years old - North American age) and we take care of them during the day. Teachers from the other two schools come to help out and make sure things are fun. Those days are straining but we get to interact with potential new kids and their mothers get to see how nice it is here ^3^

This morning everything went very smoothly, as it was the second "open-house-ish" in a row we had and we knew what to expect. The transition from lunchtime to gymtime was a bit crazy (we had two crazy boys - twins - who went insane, screamed yelled and ran around in the gym toys and stuff) but all in all, it was really nice. We had the kids make sugar house roofs with bread, whipped cream and candy to bring home and they were really good doing it. I was actually expecting it to be messy and difficult to manage, but it went super well. We did have a majority of girls, which helped creating an "artsy" mood: everyone was trying their best.

Little boy in the middle: one of the crazy twins... getting help from my boss...

I love how all those kids come up with weird English names. Today we had
an Allie, an Alvine (??), a Jasmine and a Cinderella...

Pretty Eileen helping the youngest of the kids today, Daniel (4 years old) who is already
enrolled in the school and in the class I teach. He was the only kid already enrolled that
came today (last time we had 3 or 4 of them who came in).