another day at osu

Today was a rather trying day, but also a good one. I worked at the developmental center. Last night I was up late coloring big coloful pictures of animals and things that start with the letter 'A' to try to teach the kids. They loved it, but also got a little rowdy. They were totally getting out of hand at one point and wouldn't listen to anything I said (24 three year olds can be a little overwhelming at times) and I got really frustrated and told a few of them that if they didn't listen they'd get a spanking. Well they continued to ignore my promptings and so I spanked them. Well, they just thought that was hilarious. Which of course made me even more annoyed. I can't even remember how I got them to calm down now, but I did. I guess now I know that method won't work for me. I did enjoy my time today though. Besides fetching water from the terrifying wash room that is. There was a new teacher today and after talking to her I found out that she is the actual teacher and had taken a leave for some time. She has better control of the children than the other teachers did, but she too is on the harsh side. I guess it's a trade off though-harshness for at least semi-obedient children. Fair enough I guess. At one point she had them all sit down at tables. Well, they sat there for five minutes and she was just sitting at her desk, so I asked what they were going to do and suggested we give them slates to draw on, rather than just have them sit there for the twenty minutes before lunch, so she agreed and they all wrote zeros-or at least kind of. Then we cleared off the slates and they had to wait another ten minutes while all the food was taken out of bags and put in bowls and they were getting out of hand. So, I had them reach up and touch for the sky and clap and point to their eyes and their nose and so on. Then after that got old I tried singing songs with them, which is kind of tricky cuz most of the ones they know and like are action songs, which they can't do while sitting at a table, but I've been singing "do as I'm doing" with them and they like it and are learning it. Anyways, they still like it and later I saw a list of songs the teacher (lydia) had been writing down and I was happy to see "do as I'm doing follow follow me" penned in on the bottom. score one for me.