Not easy as ABC...

I'm reading this book by Lydia Teh, Life's Like That and there's this piece about her experience teaching the kindergarten kids for a week and boy! I can definitely relate to that. I'm also doing part time at this language centre u see. Once, they called me up to ask me to replace a teacher for a 'Young Learner' class. And I said, 'Yeah, no problem.' 5- 6 yrs old.. aah.. a group of adorable looking things- I can handle that for two hours. And I was really looking forward to it- I mean a session of drawing, cutting, pasting- that should fun, right? WRONG!!!
They were adorable, no doubt. TOO adorable. Every minutes, at least two of them would go to the toilet. Every half an hour they would ask whether they could go back already. And when I said no, the 'Why teacher?' question would pop. The boys would chase each other, sat under the table. the girls would come fleeing to me to report! Half and hour after the class started I was ready to jump out of the window already!!
This boy, Kishen. Very talkative and never listened to instruction. He would go to all of his classmates to show off his work! Kenneth is the one with the hp and once in awhile he would raise his hand and say things like, "My brother has a new playstation," or ,"I go to Kumon " or "My mom is going to buy me a playstation too."
Char Maine was a quiet lil girl who every now and then would ask me question. "Teacher, do what?" "Teacher, how to do this?" or once I clearly remember until today when I was handing out the glue, and she asked, "Teacher, what's that?" I smiled and said, "This is a bottle of glue,"And she replied, "I know that. (and she had that 'duh' expression on her face) But what's inside? What is glue made of?" And there I was in silence for the longest time. Hmm... interesting, I never really thought about it. I mean yes we did learn about it back in school but that was 2 decades ago since anyone ask me that question. I had to be creative and I told her it is a mixture of a lot of chemical stuff before I quickly probed her to start pasting her cut out pictures. I tell u, when the class finished I had never felt so tired. It was like, all my energy had been drained out of my body!
Like Lydia, I have a new sense of respect to all of the kindergarten teachers. I do not know how you guys manage to do this every day and still stay sane! Hats off to you!!