I feel like I'm "growing my teeth" as a teacher. I'll be honest, there have been many many growing pains, but I know that the experiences I'm gaining each day will be invaluable in the long run. The students at my school are extremely diverse, which makes the job incredibly challenging. I've been working with 8 year old's who are intelligent, multi-lingual kids. Then there's the 60 year old's who rely on a digital translator for nearly every sentence spoken but are purely happy to converse with a foreigner. Often times, these two lessons happen within the same hour. I've also been training business men who work for major companies and groups of children who can hardly contain their excitement when they see my unfamiliar-looking features. As my teeth grow in, I'm learning how to bite with discipline when necessary, explain advanced concepts in the cleanest of terms, and most importantly, floss out all of my unnecessary words during a l