Teaching English and guidance counseling

So I have not yet posted my experiences here but I am excited to say it is quite thrilling. At first, it was a little confusing, and to some extent it still is. I don't have a classroom of my own so I just go to whatever classroom has the fewest students and hope the ones I am supposed to teach find me. It's getting a little easier to figure out the best classroom to wait in. Sometimes, the vocational principal gathers my students for me but otherwise I have no idea who is supposed to be in my class and when. On the positive side, teaching English is rather fun. We are going slowly but surely with each subject: adjectives, nouns, pronouns, et cetera. A really rewarding moment was when one of my students asked me for a novel, and another asked me for a dictionary to study on his own.
The guidance and counseling is really interesting. it is meant to be sex education but that is a taboo subject. So, much like "family life" education in high school, this is guidance and counseling. It is a two hour block so i decided to spend the first hour giving them information and answering group questions and then the second hour with private counseling. This has been quite revealing. Some students have told me very personal information and have asked for resources that I am attempting to uncover here. I can already feel the impact as I dispel the myths many of them have grown up hearing.
I am looking forward to the next session. I am going to show everyone how to properly put on a condom. The good ol' banana-condom. They are pretty excited for this as well. I think at first they thought I was going to need a volunteer. One of the boys was eager to have his friend participate. I quickly squashed that idea. This is a lot of fun so far. I hope to have some exciting stories to tell everyone soon.

-Renee