Friday 16 May 2008

The kids arn't alright

I am now back in Wellington and last week started working at 'I-Kids' a pre school, one class is for 3 month to 2 year olds and the other for 2-4 year olds, which is where I have been working. I think the parents are rich business types, well thats the only excuse I can think of why they would leave there children in a pre-school for 9 hours a day (a lot of them anyway) I mean what is the point in having kids?? Some are tiny babies, poor little things.

So I can't work out whether the children are all little brats because they have never been taugh morals and how to behave because there is only so much the teachers can say do or whether its because they are all spoilt by their rich parents.

I dont remember the kids at Steyning pre-school biting (drawing blood), fighting, throwing paint pots at childrens heads and shouting back at the teachers. Not to mention the constant crying!

Either way it's made me decide that the only way forward is to bring up kids being poor, then they might end up being nice, yay no more career worries for me!

Oh and its made me realise I definetly don't want to be a primary school teacher, wow this trip is making me realise all the things I don't want, maybe it will be a process of elimination.

Other than that I am staying in a hotel, posh huh, well not really i'm staing in an eight bed dorm room which is costing me $19 a night. Which as you can imagine, im really popular in, getting up at 6 or 7am every morning :)

Had a really good night out in Wellington friday, It was one of the guys im staying with last night, Wellington on a friday night is so cool, really packed out with good musicians on the streets playing jolly music. Friday nights are so much better when you've been working all week too.
Last night the english were teaching the others english sland while we got taught Hebrew by an Israeli. Iv never met an Israeli before, he was very good at the english slang too, saying "she is well fit mate" in a London accent.

Something else I have noticed about NZ is how crap the news is, I mean im sure you know im not one to sit down and watch the news every night but when I heard about the earth quake in China, about 3 days late I decided I should. well, I had to sit through 10 minutes of news about the biggest cow in england to finally hear about 1 minute of news about thousands dieing in China.

So all's really well here apart from catching a cold off one of the slugged nosed little brats at school.

Briony arrived here ok, at the moment she's doing the north island bus trip while I work.

Going to the south island on the 30th May, staying with Susie and Kev for a few days and then traveling the south island for 3 weeks before departing New Zealand :(