more specifics about my job!

Grandma and others have been asking more about my job, so I thought I would write and tell:

-My main job is working with the kids who live in the boarding department of Anatolia School. Most of them are here on scholarship and could not afford to be at this school if it wasn't for that scholarship. They work hard to keep up their grades, and study pretty hard! (Some of them panics lots about their grades too!). There are also other kids who go to Pinewood International School...most of them are from Bulgaria, Serbia and one from Germany. They, like me, don't know Greek and we communicate in English.

My job has its ups and downs. This weekend one of the girls (who is a black belt in karate) taught us a karate class...we giggled lots! I also taught a yoga class, and NINE! girls came. Sunday afternoon, I had a pen war (where each person holds a pen and tries to write on another) with a student...also very amusing. The hard part of the job is trying to be strict: kids here never go to bed on time, and last week one of the kids broke his door, and ten minutes later set off the fire alarm. Working with these students is teaching me not to be a perfectionist, and that you never know what will happen with children!

Other than my main duty I am: teaching an SAT class (I teach vocabulary and math), helping with a forensics club and pottery club, writing a grant for the President of the college, and substitute teaching (my first class in on Wednesday morning!)

Also, coming up I will be taking a weekend road trip with a bunch of Grinnell Alums (me Calvin, Kate Diedrick, Ionnis) and hopefully going to Turkey next weekend. I'm also looking forward to Halloween...we get to carve pumpkins!!

I know it living in Greece sounds exotic, but Im realizing that life is life wherever you live. People have the same challenges and same emotions! Im still trying to find myself, relax into disorder, and find a group of friends (my social network is...somewhat nonexistent!)

love
allie