I just completed a two week stint teaching PE at an English camp located at the German Swiss International School to mainly Chinese students. Kids were from the ages 6-12. Are you a little confused? Yeah me too, but that is typical Hong Kong. The German Swiss school has two language tracks, German and English. So you can choose what you want to speak and hear while learning. It is quite a popular school, it has three campuses, the main one, located up on the Peak, is a deluxe beauty. The one I worked at was rather plain. Yet it had an air-conditioned sport hall, which was a treat for me since at my regular school I have to be outside all the time.
I only had to work from 8-12 every day so that was nice. Anyway it was a good time, the only struggle was to keep the kids speaking English. Sometimes the Chinese kids would speak Cantonese or the German kids would speak GERMAN! So I had to give them my "only English" speech. Outside of that it was easy. The other teachers were mainly Canadians, there were a few Brits, Australians, and a Scot, but we Canadians kept the other commonwealth representatives at peace. Occasionally a German teacher would be at the school getting things ready and hearing their thick accents was amusing to me. Mind you my English/Canadian accent when I speak German is pretty thick too.
Now I have a few days to relax before the real work begins. Summers go way too fast!
Have a great week!
Love adios and peng on!
Dirk
Kids having a splash time.
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