Brainstorm

So I was sitting in my JIA class which is 7 year olds, and while they were colouring by numbers, I started thinking. I remembered a conversation Adam and I had with our friend Craig last night as we were on our 3rd floor. We were talking about teaching and class dynamics etc. and Craig kind of snickered because he is much more experienced than we. Adam and I however, were on the same wave length. We were both realizing that we had only been teaching for 6 weeks, and 6 weeks is a very short time. Especially with teaching, which you modify and learn from every single class. We have had such a limited teaching career. Then we started realizing how absolutely insane that last 3 months have been, and Adam made a nice little comment: We've been living by trial and error. It's basically true. Almost everything we've done has been uncertain and we've just jumped in and saw what came of it. We hitch-hiked across Canada, it worked. We spent time and money to avoid getting hassled by Vietnamese customs, it worked. We tried finding jobs when we arrived, rather than planning ahead, it worked. We tried being nice Canadians to whoever talked to us, it worked and we made friends. We tried renting a nice house, it worked. We tried leaving our front door unlocked, it didn't work. We're trying to be teachers, it's working. That's a pretty good track record. And quite an array of things to try in a three month period. I'm glad so many things have worked.
I suppose this isn't really blog worthy, more journal worthy, but I thought it was interesting.
I hope everything is working out for you too.
Now, time to go back and teach the 7 year olds. Good times!
Brandon.
P.S. two blogs in one day doesn't happen very often, so enjoy it. :)