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Internship week 2

 

Internship week 2

2 weeks in already?! Thinking that my internship is already ¼ done is absolutely insane to me! Time has been flying by and everyday has been a fun adventure.

To be honest I have been enjoying every day so extremely much. Although I do really miss the people close to me in Belgium these last 3 weeks have been awesome. I feel like I am truly in the right place here and if this school were to be closer to home this would be my dreamjob.

I’ve been doing a lot of buddy reading this last week to help the kids get to the next reading level by spring break. This has been a great way of getting to know some of the kids who I had not have a lot of interaction with. Because getting to know 51 kids is a lot haha!

Math has mostly been about fractions (breuken) and although I was kind of struggling with the English vocabulary at first, I’ve gotten the hang of it and we’ve been doing some great things. I do have to admit that it’s not always easy to explain things like math and literacy in English when you’re absolutely not used to that but I have been trying really hard and I feel like it’s going quite good.

The team I am in right now is very focussed on letting the children do their own thing, they will often just put some vocab on the whiteboard and let the kids do research and make their own presentation with explanation and examples so they really know what these words mean. I feel like they focus on actually understanding rather then being able to solve and honestly I do think it’s a good thing. I used to be one of those kids struggling with hard math vocab and not knowing what to do, so putting a lot of time and effort in that is something I feel is necessary for some of these kids.

So at the moment my internship mostly consists of individual support for kids who need it most, there are some ‘new’ kids who don’t speak that much English yet so I will sit with them explaining and translating a lot of things. During the individual or group works I will just walk around the classroom and help wherever I can. Having 4-5 teachers walking around and doing that is great because the kids get all the support and help they need. I wasn’t a big fan of team-teaching before but to be honest my opinion on that has changed a lot since I first came in here.

The team is honestly a dream, yesterday (Thursday) we went out for dinner with some people and I had a blast! On Tuesday it was Joy’s birthday (my mentor) and so I made her some chocolate covered strawberries and Jay got here a cake and we had a little birthday celebration during our daily meeting. It’s so nice that these people are not just colleagues, they are truly friends and you can feel that in the school too. You walk in and every single person will greet you, ask you how your weekend has been, hold the door for you or just come over for a quick chat. Most of my housemates still don’t really talk so it’s nice to be in such a warm and inviting team during the day.


Anyway, it was another awesome week at Aoba international school and I’m in for a busy weekend so I’ll talk to you later! Byebye <3

(I'm sorry for the delay, I wrote this on Friday but forgot to upload it hehe) 

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  1. Mamasa(rah)4 maart 2024 om 13:28

    Zo fijn voor ons om te weten dat je op Aoba in zo'n warme en zorgzame omgeving terecht bent gekomen. Dat zorgt er zeker voor dat wij wat geruster zijn. 😊 Shout out to all of the Aoba-staff!! ❤️

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