I meet my students!

My eyes popped open at 4:00 a.m...wide awake! I watched the minutes tick by before I could rationalize getting out of bed to walk over to my new classroom. I had met the woman who opened the classroom doors the day before and knew she would be there around 7:00 (class starts at 8:00) so I decided to greet her at my door at 7:00...so I did!

The city is busy at all hours, but it was much easier to run across the street between the East and West campus at 7:00 a.m. After about 10 minutes she arrived and opened the door and helped me get the computer started...it was rather funny watching us figure this out (since I had forgotten my lesson from the day before).

My students arrived at 8:00...13! We began introductions and it was clear to me that this class was willing to ask questions and engage with a lot of eye contact. This is great! Today I was scheduled to have an afternoon class, but it was pushed to tomorrow since they had an exam at that time.

We broke into groups today and they seemed to get great enjoyment out of my method: three packs of gum. They drew from the packs and turned into three groups: Wuhan 1, Wuhan 2 and Wuhan 3. I am having everyone write a question or what they learned on a 3x5 card at the conclution of class. I enjoyed reading the comments they wrote to me...some really good marketing questions, and a number of personal comments about their enjoyment of the morning's class.

Tomorrow we will have class #2 and #3. We will have more fun tomorrow!